Meaning of Email Fraud Email fraud is the intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual through email. Almost as soon as email became widely used, it began to be used as a means to defraud people. Simply stated, mail fraud can be defined as unlawfully using the postal system to gain … Read more
Meaning of Cyberbullying Cyberbullying is an attempt by one or more minors to threaten, intimidate, belittle or make fun of other minors using a mobile phone or computer, and can be a criminal offence. This must take place between two minors, if an adult is involved it is considered harassment, stalking or sexual grooming, not … Read more
Email has revolutionized the way people communicate with co-workers, loved ones and anonymous strangers. However, it also created new avenues for harassment and attack. Email bombing is a malicious attack that at one time was powerful enough to interrupt access to your email account and sometimes the entire server on which it was hosted. Email … Read more
Phishing email or hoax email appear to be from a well-known company, but can put you at risk. Although they can be difficult to spot, they generally ask you to click a link back to a spoof web site and provide, update or confirm sensitive personal information. In order to bait you, they may allude … Read more
Email spoofing is the forgery of an email header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source. Distributors of spam often use spoofing in an attempt to get recipients to open, and possibly even respond to their solicitations. Spoofing can be used legitimately. Classic examples of … Read more
Cyber crime is one of the fastest growing criminal activities which is rampant around the world. In cyber crime, the victim might never know who the attacker is since all is done over the Internet. The boom in Internet usage by the common man has made commission of cyber crimes increasing at an exponential rate. … Read more
Cyber Crime is criminal activity involving the information technology infrastructure, including illegal access (unauthorized access), illegal interception (by technical means of non-public transmission of computer data to, from or within a computer system), data interference ( unauthorized damaging, deletion, deterioration, alteration or suppression of computer data) , systems interference ( interfering with the functioning of … Read more
Meaning of Cyber Terrorism Cyber terrorism refers to attacking computers, networks, and other electronic technological capabilities to either damage the cyberspace infrastructure itself or to damage some other target, motivated by terrorism. Such attacks may undermine faith in government and in the security of the critical infrastructures of the country. It is well known that … Read more
Cyber gambling is one thing that became very popular in the Internet. The Internet has changed the way we live to a large extent. Many physical entities online have increased and have become practically available to anyone who has access to the Internet. Online gambling, betting online or as it is called, is the process … Read more
We may define Cyber Crime as- “criminal activity involving the information technology infrastructure, including illegal access (unauthorized access), illegal interception (by technical means of non-public transmissions of computer data to, from or within a computer system), data interference (unauthorized damaging, deletion, deterioration, alteration or suppression of computer data), systems interference (interfering with the functioning of … Read more