Prevention of Cyber Crimes: Legal Strategies in india

Prevention of Cyber Crimes: Legal Strategies in india

Introduction:
The word cyber and its relative dot.com are probably the most commonly used terminologies of the modern era. In the information age the rapid development of computers, telecommunications and other technologies has led to the evolution of new forms of trans-national crimes known as “cyber crimes”.
Cyber Crime may be defined as “any crime with the help of computer and telecommunication technology”, with the purpose of influencing the functioning of computer or the computer systems.
The extent of loss involved worldwide of cyber crimes is tremendous as it is estimated that about 500 million people who use the Internet can be affected by the emergence of cyber crimes. Cyber crimes are considered as white-collar crimes because it is difficult to identify the culprit, given the almost impossibility of pin-pointing the culprit.

Broadly the cyber crimes are classified in four categories:
1. Data-related ...