Internet Crime

INTERNET CRIMES
© Beldeu Singh and Annette John
The wired world anticipates the convenient alternative of on-line shopping and e– commerce or e–banking or e-insurance. Imaging science will dramatically improve digitised images, which will be a boom to virtual museums, galleries and telemedicine. Many retailers will become e-tailers.
Behind this new dimension of rapid advances in technology is the shady internet criminal. Exceedingly rapid advances in technology leaves loopholes for the criminal mind and slow legal reform adds risk to the technology for consumers. Internet criminals were once thought to be just “hackers” – some idle genius who needed a challenge for pride or to prove a point. Whether, hacking is carried out for a sense of achievement and satisfaction, it remains an infringement that hits consumer confidence, if not, in some way affects the activity of the honest user of internet facility or computer or cyberspace. In other words, hacking for simply b...