Empirical relationship between Victim's occupation and their knowledge of Digital Forensic

Abstract

Computer crime also popularly known as Cybercrime has escalated to such a huge extent that it is now posing a threat to various industries, educational universities and professional organizations as well. The law enforcement agencies, police departments and crime branch units have acknowledged the upsurge in digital crime cases and they have begun to deploy measures to curb this evil phenomenon. In this paper, we inspect about the awareness of digital crime among the general public and illustrate an overview of Cybercrime, with the motive of highlighting the necessity to restrain the impact of cybercrime all over the world. This paper examines the rise in number of cybercrimes in India and takes into consideration the analytical traits of the offenders who commit such crimes. The paper banks on the information obtained from different sects of our country. The experimentation results depict that the top four cyber crimes committed in the past few years such as Internet frauds, data theft, cyber piracy and crime sex were all spread across the internet. The output reveals that cyber crime not only encompasses the internet but it has already expanded across all communities worldwide. The soaring crime rate is a major concern as it is indicative of the huge amount of cyber crime cases enrolled in recent years. The objective of this paper is to provide some guidelines to cybercrime analysts, government organizations, and educational universities.