Importance of Cyber Security
During the COVID-19 lockdown period, everything from education
to exams and employment to business has gone online. But now people are
starting to feel more comfortable online which also saves time, money, and
labour. With this system, the Importance of Cybersecurity also
increases manifold.
Cybercrime is a crime. These include
computers, mobiles, and their networks. If any computer or mobile or their
footprint is found at the crime scene or any crime, they will receive it.
Offenses committed with a digital device are included in the category. Cybercrime also includes misappropriation and misuse of personal information, stealing, or stealing someone's personal information from a computer or mobile without permission.
Computer crimes are also committed in many ways. Such as stealing data, deleting data, altering information. Giving useful information to anyone else without the permission of the original owner or stealing computer parts and destroying them.
Besides, there are many other types of cybercrime, such as sending spam-mails, hacking electronics devices, phishing attacks, uploading and sharing viruses, assuming someone's identity, and stalking someone online or keeping an eye on them.
Types of Cybercrime & Information
Hacking - The act of stealing and altering anyone's
personal information such as a username or password or hacking is an attempt to
use a private network in a computer system or commuter for illegal purposes
without the original owner's permission.
Spam-e-mail - in which unwanted heaps of emails are sent.
Which only harms the computer or mobile. This can lead to defects and sometimes
spam emails with spy software being input into mobile or computer. Then every
activity done by the person is recorded.
Phishing: Phishing is a social engineering attack. They
were used to steal any login information and data, including credit or debit
card numbers. An attacker sends an email, instant message, or
text message to the sufferer by assuming a known identity. As a result, the victim gives information about his / her non-disclosure,
keeping in view the credible identity, and the damage is done.
Cyberbullying - making rude comments on social media
platforms like Facebook, whatsApp, and Instagram, making cyber threats on the
Internet, making fun of someone, putting others to shame through the Internet,
is called cyberbullying. Children and women are the biggest victims.
Spreading viruses: Cybercriminals sends some software to your
computer or mobile. These include virus worms, Trojan horses, logic horses,
etc. sent only to disrupt the operation of computers and mobiles.
Rumours on social media: Many human beings use social media appreciably to
unfold social, ideological, religious, and political issues. Users do not
understand the motives behind the post and deliberately share such links or
posts. This can lead to social unrest, such as mob lynching. Such incidents are
also included in the category of cybercrime and cyber-terrorism.
Fake Bank call: You get the phony email, message, or phone
call. Looks like it came from your bank. You are asking
for your card information, ATM number, and
password, and at the same time, you are informed that if you do not provide
this information, your account will be locked, or please provide information on
links. Remember that any bank or bank official never requests such data.
Sexting: Sexting refers to a type of cybercrime that
involves sending digital images, videos, text messages, or emails, usually showing
sexual activity from a mobile phone.
SIM swap: A SIM swap scam means that when a fraudster
fraudulently obtains a new SIM card of your registered mobile number from your
mobile service provider, with the help of that new SIM card, they can make
financial transactions. OTP can also receive and receive all types of
notifications.
SMSing: SMSing refers to a type of fraud in which a
mobile phone text message is used to visit any fraudulent websites or download
malicious content via the web. When someone follows such text messages, they
end up in substantial financial losses.
Smishing: It is a combination of short message services and
Phishing in which Cyber criminals send emails that seek to recipient to open a
malware attachment or a link. Smishing is becoming an emerging and growing
threat in the cyber world.
Child Pornography: It is a crime to publish or share an image or video
on the Internet of any kind that contains a sexual image in any form or form of
sexual abuse. At the same time, Section (2B) of the Information Technology (IT)
Act also states that the publication or transmission of a child's
electronically displayed material in a sexual act is punishable.
Cyberstalking: Cyberstalking refers to a crime in which a
person uses an electronic communication medium to chase someone. Efforts to
make to increase personal contact, to communicate, even when there are clear
signs of reluctance on the part of the person or the victim, are monitored
continuously utilizing the Internet, email, or any other type of electronic
communication.
Cyber Grooming: Cyber
grooming is a crime when a person
forms an online relationship with a young person and manipulates or forces them
to engage in sexual activity.
Job Fraud - Online Job Fraud Trying to deceive people who
need employment giving False promises of getting a good job with a high salary
and money laundering in the name of registration and different processes.
Sextortion: Sextortion refers to an online blackmail crime in which a person threatens to disseminate their personal and sensitive material to society, using electronic means, when they do not provide pictures of sexual activity, consent to sexual activity, or pay a cyber-criminal. Sometimes photographs or videos are also sent by MORPH.
Identity Theft - In this type of crime, any person fraudulently or dishonestly uses that person's electronic signature, password, by incorrectly assuming another person's name electronically.
The Reason for more to Cybercrime in India
Any crime is born
when we do not have any information related to that crime. In such a situation,
cybercrime gets more boost, and some people do not even know that they have
become victims of cybercrime.
In today's time,
everyone uses the Internet a lot. But due to not being aware of cybercrime,
mostly women become victims of cybercrime.
According to
India's statistics, one-third of the women of India have become victims of
cybercrime, out of which only 35% of women have filed cybercrime complaints.
Apart from this,
some women have not filed any complaint about cybercrime, according to those
figures, 46.7 percent of women fall in this figure.
The surprising
thing is that there is 18.3 percent of women who have been cybercrime with
them, but they are not even aware of this. This crime has reached its stage in
today's time, and the biggest reason for this is not aware of cybercrime.
Measures to avoid cybercrime
No work can be done
without the Internet but doing any work without taking precautions can prove to
be harmful to you. Therefore, if you read all the measures given below and adapt
them in your life, you will never be a victim of cybercrime.
Use a secure internet
service - We often start using it as soon as you get free
Internet, whereas you should know that any free internet can be harmful to you.
Because there is some such WiFi also, using which all personal information of
your phone is stolen. So always avoid any free WiFi facility.
Use a strong
password - Always put a strong password in all applications
related to your personal information. It should not be that you have been using
your same password for years, but you should keep changing your password
regularly so that no one can crack it. With this, you can avoid being a victim
of cybercrime.
Keep your software
up to date - To prevent accidents related to cybercrime with
you, you must keep your operating system and Internet software fully updated.
If you keep updating your software regularly, then no hacker will be able to
steal any of your data from your software.
Restrict your
social media settings - In today's time, social media has its own identity.
And the biggest cybercrime is also carried out through social media, in such a situation, it is essential for you to completely restrict your information on
all types of social media accounts.
The most important
thing is to give information about your social media account only to those
people who are reliable to you. No unknown person can enter your social media
account and misuse the information related to you, so keep all the information
related to your account restricted.
Tell your children
about the Internet - In today's time, small children are becoming
victims of cybercrime because they do not have complete information about the
Internet, due to which they soon go astray.
In such a
situation, it becomes the duty of good parents to explain to their children all
the information related to the Internet in detail so that they can be alerted
before anything goes wrong with them.
Take care of your
website - If you are a businessman and run one of your
websites, then keep your website safe and secure. If you see even a small flaw,
then change the password of your website immediately.
Avoid sharing your
personal information on social media - In today's time,
all the people who are a big celebrity or common man, uploading all the
information related to themselves through social media. In such a situation,
some stockers take care of your profile and start following you.
By uploading any of your mail IDs and any information on social media, you can be in danger at any time. At what time, where are you going, and why are you going, do not share any such post on your social media account so that you can avoid cybercrime.
Cyber Law in India
Offenses |
Section Applicable |
Tampering with computer source documents |
Sec.65 |
Hacking with computer systems, Data Alteration |
Sec.66 |
Sending offensive messages through communication service, etc. |
Sec.66A |
Dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device |
Sec.66B |
Identity theft |
Sec.66C |
Cheating by personation by using computer resource |
Sec.66D |
Violation of privacy |
Sec.66E |
Cyber terrorism |
Sec.66F |
Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form |
Sec.67 |
Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit
act, etc. in electronic form |
Sec.67A |
Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting
children in the sexually explicit act, etc. in electronic form |
Sec.67B |
Preservation and Retention of information by intermediaries |
Sec.67C |
Powers to issue directions for interception or monitoring or the decryption of any information through any computer resource |
Sec.69 |
Power to issue directions for blocking for public access of any
information through any computer resource |
Sec.69A |
Power to authorize to monitor and collect traffic data or information
through any computer resource for Cyber Security |
Sec.69B |
Unauthorized access to the protected system |
Sec.70 |
Penalty for misrepresentation |
Sec.71 |
Breach of confidentiality and privacy |
Sec.72 |
Publishing False digital signature certificates |
Sec.73 |
Publication for the fraudulent purpose |
Sec.74 |
Act to apply for offence or contraventions committed outside India |
Sec.75 |
Compensation, penalties, or confiscation not to interfere with other
punishment |
Sec.77 |
Compounding of Offences |
Sec.77A |
Offences with three-year imprisonment to be cognizable |
Sec.77B |
Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases |
Sec.79 |
Punishment for abetment of offences |
Sec.84B |
Punishment for attempt to commit offences |
Sec.84C |
Offences by Companies |
Sec.85 |
Note: Sec.78 of I.T. Act empowers Police Inspector to investigate cases falling under this Act |
Sending threatening messages by e-mail |
Sec.503 IPC |
Word, gesture, or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman |
Sec.509 IPC |
Sending defamatory messages by e-mail |
Sec.499 IPC |
Bogus websites, Cyber Frauds |
Sec.420 IPC |
E-mail Spoofing |
Sec.463 IPC |
Making a false document |
Sec.464 IPC |
Forgery for purpose of cheating |
Sec.468 IPC |
Forgery for purpose of harming reputation |
Sec.469 IPC |
Web-Jacking |
Sec.383 IPC |
E-mail Abuse |
Sec.500 IPC |
Punishment for criminal intimidation |
Sec.506 IPC |
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication |
Sec.507 IPC |
When copyright infringed:- Copyright in a work shall be deemed to be
infringed |
Sec.51 |
Offence of infringement of copyright or other rights conferred by this
Act. Any person who knowingly infringes or abets the infringement of |
Sec.63 |
Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions |
Sec.63A |
Knowing the use of an infringing copy of the computer program to be an offence |
Sec.63B |
Obscenity |
Sec.292 IPC |
Printing etc. of grossly indecent or scurrilous matter or matter
intended for blackmail |
Sec.292A IPC |
Sale, etc., of obscene objects to a young person |
Sec.293 IPC |
Obscene acts and songs |
Sec.294 IPC |
Theft of Computer Hardware |
Sec.378 |
Punishment for theft Online Sale of Drugs NDPS Act Online Sale of Arms Arms Act |
Sec.379 |
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