What is this Cyber crime?

What is this Cyber crime? 

Cyber crime is the latest and perhaps the most complicated problem in the cyber world. It is a criminal activity committed on the internet. A Cyber crime is a form of crime where the Internet or computer is used as a medium to commit crime. Cyber crime also includes non-monetary offenses, such as creating and distributing viruses on other computers.

Cyber crimes can be basically divided into 3 major categories:

1. Cyber crimes against persons.
2. Cyber crimes against property.
3. Cyber crimes against government.

What is Computer hacking?

Computer hacking is broadly defined as intentionally to accesses a computer without authorization or to exceeds authorized access.

A hacker is a person who breaks into computers and computer network; either for profit or showing there solving skills/abilities are known as hackers. Hackers are usually real technology buffs and expert in one specific program. Hackers think that what they do is like an art form.

What is Child grooming?

The term Child grooming is used to describe "any form of sexual communication with minors" When an adult become a friends with a child, with the aim of establishing an emotional connection with the child in order to prepare for abuse, or exploitation.

What is a virus?

A virus is a parasitic program that normally infects another program or data file without the knowledge of the user. Normally a virus enters your computer through a spam email. A virus can damage files of your computer. They merely eat up all the available space on a computer's memory. E.g. love bug virus, which affected at least 5 % of the computers of the globe. The losses were accounted to be $ 10 million.

What is Child pornography?

Child pornography consists of visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct or sexually suggestive poses whether they are clothed or not. Child pornography is a record of child sexual abuse. Abuse of child occurs during the sexual acts are recorded in production of Child pornography. Mere possession of child pornography is a felony offense that shall be punished or sentenced for 1 year in Bangladesh.

All most country of the world agrees that using children under the age of sixteen qualifies as child pornography.

 What is the internet?

The prefixes inter means between, so you have something that is between the net. The Internet is a global network of computers. Every computer that is connected to the Internet is considered a part of that network. This means even your home computer. Internet is vast interconnected collection of computers of many types that unable the user to make the use of the email, World Wide Web and file transfer. 

What is copyright infringement?

Copyright infringement occurs when someone copies the “expression” of a work other than the copyright holder. Copyright infringement occurs if the infringing work is “substantially similar” to the copy righted work. Copyright infringement can occur even if someone does not copy a work exactly. This example of copyright infringement is most easily apparent in music and art.

It often refers to copying "intellectual property" without written permission from the copyright holder. Copyright law provides an incentive to create software, music, literature and other works by ensuring that the creator will be able to reap the financial benefits of the work.

PREVENTION OF CYBER CRIME:

 

1. To prevent cyber stalking avoid disclosing any information pertaining to one self. This is as good as disclosing your identity to strangers in public place. 

2. Always avoid sending any photograph online particularly to strangers and chat friends as there have been incidents of misuse of the photographs.

3. Always use latest and up date anti virus software to guard against virus attacks. 

4. Always keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in case of virus contamination. 

5. Never send your credit card number to any site that is not secured, to guard against frauds. 

6. Always keep a watch on the sites that your children are accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children.

7. It is better to use a security programme that gives control over the cookies and send information back to the site as leaving the cookies unguarded might prove fatal.

8. Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site. Putting host-based intrusion detection devices on servers may do this. 

9. Web servers running public sites must be physically separate protected from internal corporate network.

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