Different types of cyber crimes | LawSikho Business

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We are living in an era where the internet has become a part of our daily schedule. Everything, from ordering food to shopping online, studying a subject to looking at memes, posting online about your whereabouts to online transactions, has been so engraved in our functioning that we tend to overlook the threats and dangers it poses to us. The web is a worldwide stage, which means that anyone can have access to it. And once people have access to anything, they start violating it.

Cyberspace is a global computer network which felicitates online communication. It allows users to share information and ideas, interact and communicate, play games, engage in discussions, conduct business and many other activities. In other words, this computer-generated worldwide stage of internet and web is known as Cyberspace.

The Indian Law does not define the term ‘cybercrime’. It is neither defined in the Information Technology Act, 2000 nor in the I.T. Amendment Act, 2008 nor in any other legislation of India. In fact, the Indian Penal Code still does not use the term ‘cybercrime’ even after its amendment by the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008. However, cybercrime can be defined as any criminal activity directly related to the use of computers and the internet, such as illegal trespass into the computer system or database of another, manipulation or theft of stored or online data, hacking, phishing, cyber warfare, spreading computer viruses etc. In simple words, any offence or crime in which a computer is used for committing that crime.

Next, coming to cyber law, it can be defined as the law which governs Cyberspace and protects from cyber crimes and lays down punishments for its violation. Cyberlaw is a common term which refers to legal jurisdiction and regulation of various aspects of the internet and computer security. In India, cyber laws are regulated by the Information Technology Act, 2000.

Different types of cyber crimes

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