Cybercrime In India Research Articles

Are Women a Soft Target for Cyber Crime in India

A growing global issue that might have significant social and economic repercussions is cyber violence against women. This is due to the growing popularity of social media, the spread of information via mobile devices, and the growth of the internet. Any form of sexual or gender-based violence against women that takes place through ICTs like the Internet, mobile devices, and video games is referred to as cyber violence. These technologies are ideal for using as weapons against women for a variety of reasons these include cyber stalking, sexual abuse (including sending sexually explicit or pornographic emails to the victim), cyber extortion, cyber bullying, cybersex trafficking, and phishing. Even if there are more crimes against women overall, a woman can find that experiencing a cybercrime is the most upsetting thing that has ever happened to her. More so in India, where women are devalued and cybercrimes aren't even given significant legal consideration. India's legal system's current rules and practises are shown to have gaps in Cyber Crimes against Women, as well as what can be done to keep individuals secure online. In this essay, I'd want to discuss the various cybercrimes that can affect women and how they can harm them. I also briefly discuss new laws that are being introduced in this field, such as the Criminal Amendment Bill, as well as the many statutes that protect women in these circumstances, such as the Information Technology Act of 2000. (2013). to reach a conclusion, I consider a number of well-known cybercrime cases. Additionally, we need to consider a couple of answers for the rising frequency of cyber crimes against ladies in India. At the end, we talk about the choices accessible to casualties of cyber crime and the changes that should be made to the overall set of laws to battle the rising tide of cyber crimes.

Cybercrimes in India with special reference to offences against women

Cybercrimes in India with special reference to offences against women

Rising Cyber Crime in Rural India: A Review

This paper analyses the increasing cyber-crime in India, especially in the rural areas, andcyber-attacks on service-providing government websites. Cyber-attacks are viewed within the context of important events to reveal the effectiveness of cyber-attack campaigns. The analysis highlights the range of cyber issues experienced during the lockdown in the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper shows how work-from-home campaigns digitalize the population, and how rural people become the victim of cyber-attacks. The analysis also emphasizes possible solutions to strengthen cyber security.

Analytical Study on Cyber Crimes in India

Analytical Study on Cyber Crimes in India

Laws Related to Cyber-crime in India

Laws Related to Cyber-crime in India

Cybercrime Regulation through Laws and Strategies: A Glimpse into the Indian Experience

Cybercrimes in India is increasing at an alarming rate. Though various legal provisions under the conventional criminal laws including form the Indian Penal Code, could be used to regulate the cybercrimes, yet the changing nature of these crimes necessitated adoption of a new law framework. Thus, the Indian Information Technology Act was enacted in 2000 but seldom could regulate cybercrimes since it focused on promoting and facilitating e-commerce and e-governance. This Act underwent amendment in 2008 to accommodate provisions essential to regulate cybercrimes as well as protect data and privacy on cyber space. In addition to the law, other strategies were designed and adopted to better regulate cyber offences including announcing cyber security policies, constituting institutions to take care of certain concerns including those relating to critical infrastructure information, etc. This paper aims to provide an overview of the approach adopted in India primarily the legal approach adopted to regulate cybercrimes. Additionally, other strategies adopted by India is also reviewed in brief. Despite these, since cybercrimes are technical as well as dynamic in nature, there is a need to constantly review and revise nation’s strategies, which is also one of the objects of this paper.

Cybercrime Regulation through Laws and Strategies: a Glimpse into the Indian Experience

Cybercrimes in India is increasing at an alarming rate. Though various legal provisions under the conventional criminal laws including form the Indian Penal Code, could be used to regulate the cybercrimes, yet the changing nature of these crimes necessitated adoption of a new law framework. Thus, the Indian Information Technology Act was enacted in 2000 but seldom could regulate cybercrimes since it focused on promoting and facilitating e-commerce and e-governance. This Act underwent amendment in 2008 to accommodate provisions essential to regulate cybercrimes as well as protect data and privacy on cyber space. In addition to the law, other strategies were designed and adopted to better regulate cyber offences including announcing cyber security policies, constituting institutions to take care of certain concerns including those relating to critical infrastructure information, etc. This paper aims to provide an overview of the approach adopted in India primarily the legal approach adopted to regulate cybercrimes. Additionally, other strategies adopted by India is also reviewed in brief. Despite these, since cybercrimes are technical as well as dynamic in nature, there is a need to constantly review and revise nation’s strategies, which is also one of the objects of this paper.

Perception of Teenage Internet Users on Cyber Crimes (An Empirical Examination on Intermediate College Level Students in Guntur District of A.P)

(The dependence and behavior of the citizens on information security and internet activities deeply affect the route that intend for using the information technology. It is a well known factor that the growth of cyber crimes in India is a resultant factor of issues such as lack of proper training and education and the low awareness levels of Indians towards punishment for cyber crimes. This paper aims at studying the perception levels of teenage internet users towards the aspect of cyber crimes based on statutory and ethical perspectives. Descriptive research design was adopted for this study in the sample size was fixed at 120 involving the intermediate college level students of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh. The data analysis was carried out with the help of statistical tools like t-Test and ANOVA. The findings of the study shows that there is no difference in the perception levels among male and female teenage internet users and the study further shows that there exists the significant difference in the perception levels of the respondents based on their level of education and perspectives based on statutory and ethical issues.

Cyber Crime and Security

Cybercrime is becoming ever more serious. Findings from the 2002 Computer Crime and Security Survey show an upward trend that demonstrates a need for a timely review of existing approaches to fighting this new phenomenon in the information age. In this paper, we define different types of cybercrime and review previous research and current status of fighting cybercrime in different countries that rely on legal, organizational, and technological approaches. We focus on a case study of fighting cybercrime in India and discuss problems faced. Finally, we propose several recommendations to advance the work of fighting cybercrime. Cybercrime falls into three categories: (1) a computer is the target of criminal activity; (2) the computer is the tool used or is integral to the commission of the crime; and (3) the computer is only an incidental aspect of the crime. Cybercrime is a relatively new phenomenon. Services such as telecommunications, banking and finance, transportation, electrical energy, water supply, emergency services, and government operations rely completely on computers for control, management, and interaction among themselves. Cybercrime would be impossible without the Internet. Most American businesses maintain WWW sites and over half of them conduct electronic commerce on the Internet. The rise in popularity of the Internet for both private persons and businesses has resulted in a corresponding rise in the number of Internet-related crimes.

A Linear Regression Model for the Prediction and Prevention of Cybercrimes in India

A Linear Regression Model for the Prediction and Prevention of Cybercrimes in India

Cyber Crimes in India: Judicial Endeavours

The incredible evolution of information society and its dependence on Internet usage in world and particularly in India is laterally accompanied by vulnerability of societies to cybercrime. Cybercriminals are not constrained by geographical limitations as cyberspace is a free-flowing, borderless and a global problem. India has a dream to convert its society into information society by applying "Digital India" Paradigm, where government sector, the private sector and individuals completely depend on the Internet to conduct sensitive transactions and store important data on the cloud. This makes India Vulnerable to cybercrimes. Internet, worldwide connection of loosely held networks, has made the flow of data and information between different networks simple. With data and information being transferred between networks at distant locations, security related issues have become a major concern for the administrators. The advancement in the field of cyber crime has made administrators take serious steps to protect the system from unauthorized access or virus attacks. The growth of cyber crime in India since 1998 has shown an exponential curve. Though India has managed to control the cyber attacks and registered itself in the Fully Updated Countries still there is lot more work to be done to reduce the increasing cyber crime and protect the machine under threat. Data mining techniques are being used to save the machine and the network under threat. There has been some litigation or judicial decisions on cyber crimes across the world. Cyber litigation, in India, is still in its beginning and it is expected to raise high as the commission of cyber crimes and its reporting is increasing alarmingly. There has not been much litigation on cyber crimes so far, in India and this will be a challenge for judicial decisions on cybercrime in near future. Present Article point out the judicial view about Cyber Crime in India.

Laws Relating to Cyber Crimes: Theories and Legal Aspects

This paper mainly deals with the laws relating to the cyber crimes in India. The objectives of this research paper are four-fold: firstly, to analyze the concept of jurisdiction and the various theories to determine jurisdiction in cases where such offences are committed relating to cyber crimes; secondly, to analyze the jurisdiction theories applicable under Cybercrime Convention; thirdly, to analyze the jurisdiction theories applicable under the Information Technology Act, 2000; and fourthly, to analyze whether there can be one jurisdiction theory that may globally be applicable to all cyber crimes. For the sake of convenience, this research paper has been divided into five parts.

An Overview of Corporate Cybercrime in India and US

An Overview of Corporate Cybercrime in India and US

Cyber Crime: A Threat to Indian Society

Cyber crime is emerging as a serious threat to the Indian society as al social problem. Cyber crime as a means of offending operates in white collar crime, economic crime, intellectual property infringement, telecommunications crime and in the civil jurisdiction. The common feature is the use of information technology (computers) in their commission. At the national and international level governments, police departments and intelligence agencies are seriously thinking about how to check and control the growing menace of cyber crime in our society. Serious efforts are being planned to curb cross border cyber threats. Indian police has initiated special cyber cells across the country and have started educating and training the Police personnel. The present article is an attempt to provide a glimpse on cyber crime in India based on the latest Crime In India 2014 reports.

Emerging Trends in Cyber Crimes in India: An Over View

In the 21st century it’s not going to matter how Many arms you carry, but instead how many Buttons you press.Computers and internet are becoming an essential part of our daily life. They are being used by individuals and societies to make their life easier. They use them for storing information, processing data, sending and receiving messages, communications, controlling machines, typing, editing, designing, drawing, and almost all aspects of life. Cyber Crime may be generally understood as “unlawful acts wherein the computer is a tool, a target or both” . There are many forms of crimes on the internet. Some are not dangerous enough to be deemed as a crime, rather only a simple spread of information. They are simple show of skills and are harmless. Initially, when man had invented the computer and the technology for communicating between computers had been evolved, he would have never thought that the cyber space he was creating could be flooded with crime called cyber-crime. But now almost all of us might have heard of the terms computer crime, cyber-crime, e-crime, hi-tech crime or electronic crime which is nothing but an activity done with a criminal intention in cyber space. In simple words, it is an activity which is generally criminal in nature, where a computer or network is the source, tool, target, or place of a crime. To say in one line as understood by the researchers, ‘cyber-crime refers to all the activities done with criminal intention in cyberspace’. Such crime involves an information technology infrastructure, including unauthorized access, illegal interception by technical means of non-public transmissions of computer data to, from or within a computer system, data interference by unauthorized damaging, deletion, deterioration, alteration or suppression of computer data, systems interference by interfering with the functioning of a computer system with inputting, transmitting, damaging, deleting, deteriorating, altering or suppressing computer data, misuse of devices, forgery (ID theft), and electronic fraud.In the present e-Age, ‘Crime’ has extended itself beyond physical assault or mental torture; now it also affects our e-life. E-Life means our existence & living in the cyber world. Every one of us is a part of this cyber world, directly or indirectly since computers & internet are now an integral part of our personal & professional life. Just like any other invention, Computers & Internet are a boon to human kind if used in a right way and to the advantage of the society, otherwise a curse However, as we all know, everything has its pros and cons and so computers & internet are not exceptions. If we consider ‘Cyber Crime’ as virus then it would not be untrue to say that this virus is corrupting man’s significant development (computers and internet) which is responsible for developing civilized society for men. Cyber Crime is a menace all over the world and is the one of most difficult and challenging one to detect and investigate. You will find it interesting to note that even the official website of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell of Crime Branch Mumbai quotes “The invisible criminal is dangerous than the visible one”.

The Challenge of Cyber Crime in India: The Role of Government

Nascent personal computers, high-bandwidth wireless networking technologies and the pervasive use of the internet have transformed the style of performing business. The IT infrastructure provides transmission and storage of gigantic amounts of critical information used in each domain of society and it enables government agencies to speedily interact with each other as well as with industry, citizens, state, local governments and across international boundaries. The paper focuses on an assortment of concerns related to cyber crime and the role of Government to combat the issue. Further findings draw attention to array of cyber crime which is not covered in the IT Act.

Laws Relating to Cyber Crimes in India

Intentional use of information technology by cyber terrorists for producing destructive and harmful effects to tangible and intangible property of others is called “cyber crime”. Cyber crime is clearly an international problem with no national boundaries. Hacking attacks can be launched from any corner of the world without any fear of being traced or prosecuted easily. Cyber terrorist can collapse the economic structure of a country from a place where that country might not have any arrangements like “extradition treaty” to deal with that criminal. The only safeguard would be better technology to combat such technology already evolved and known to the Hackers. But that still has threat of being taken over by the intellect computer criminals.Though there are many techniques evolved to curb the criminal activities by cyber terrorists but still the problem persists in legal structure and has failed to produce a deterring effect on the criminals. If the suggestions are undertaken in light of conclusion there can be a better co-ordination among various national and international agencies to make the system more efficient, and Information Technology Act, 2000 more secured and trustworthy. It can still be held good for the objects it had existed to provide the benefits to the society.

IP Addresses And Expeditious Disclosure Of Identity In India

Concomitant with the proliferation of cybercrime in India has been the use of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses by law enforcement agencies to track down criminals. While useful in many situations, the potential for misuse of this information raises important concerns for the privacy of individuals online. This note reviews the statutory mechanisms regulating the retention and disclosure of IP addresses by internet companies in India. It identifies and analyses the four broad sources to which the regime of IP Address disclosure by Internet Service Providers (ISP) may be traced: under the (i) operating licenses issued under the Telegrah Act, 1885, (ii) Information Technology Act, 2000, (iii) Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (hereinafter, “the Cr.P.C.”) and (iv) contractual agreements between users and ISPs. It concludes that the various layers of Indian law create an atmosphere that is intensely hostile to the withholding of such information by ISPs and intermediaries. Despite this, the author submits that there remains scope for optimism.

Cyber Warfare and Cyber Terrorism

The advent of Internet is the most important development of the modern day communication system but it has brought a new age of crime, termed as cyber crimes. The paper majorly focuses on the two common types of cyber crimes - Cyber Warfare and Cyber Terrorism, although the concept of the two appears to be similar. The paper, going into insight of the cyber crime by various examples of the affect of cyber crimes, discusses the world’s perspective to combat the threat of cyber crimes which may vary from attempts to shut down online communication networks to use of the internet to attack official institutions. The paper also details ongoing battle against cyber crimes in India and world and discusses the limitations of the present Indian Information Technology Act. The paper concludes that rethinking is needed to work out approach to cyber warfare and cyber terrorism and it is high time to act to secure the strategic digital assets, public and private.

Social Networking Sites: A Socio-Legal Perspective

The inception of Social Networking Sites came with unprecedented boons and curses, the likes of which the current legislations had never faced and consequently weren’t made to handle. The initial impact of the boons short-lived as compared to its current existing curses; As a result, there had arisen a lot of problems for which there existed no laws. The Information Technology Act, 2000 was a recent piece of legislation which wasn’t equipped to deal with the modern day scenario of crimes in India. One of the main problems that the researcher has primarily identified and focused his researched on is to explain and substantiate with facts and cases that there is a need to understand the relationship between the Real and Virtual World. This paper has been divided into five broad chapters: The First Chapter titled ‘Social Networking Sites- A Beginning’ covers the historical background of popular sites namely Orkut, Facebook and Twitter, while explaining the basic functions, advantages, disadvantages and legal issues that are faced by them. The Second Chapter titled ‘Statutory Framework’ covers the legislations which are required to govern and deal with Social Networking Sites. Along with a comparison and clear segregation of the legislations of India into two broad heads of Substantive and Procedural Laws. The Third Chapter titled ‘Challenges Encountered in Social Networking Sites’ deals with various and new emerging cyber crimes in India namely Cyber Defamation, Email Spoofing, Cyber Stalking, Clickjacking, Cyber Terrorism, Grooming, Cyber Bullying and Publishing Obscene Information in Electronic Form done through Social Networking Sites. The Fourth Chapter titled ‘Judicial Response’ analyses the role played by the Indian Judiciary for the punishment of the criminal by using a purposive interpretation of the existing legislative provisions. Lastly, the Fifth Chapter titled ‘Conclusions and Suggestions’ provides an essence of the preceding discussion and the proposed suggestions to meet the future contingencies and challenges in reference to Social Networking Sites.