We are in computer Era. The use of computers, software's and digital information is inevitable in today's day to day life. Present generation is accustomed to computers. The transactions and businesses now a days started to deal through cyber arena. It has wide scope and its space increases drastically day by day. At the same time needles to say that it has also brought in some negative effects and disadvantages too.
The computer crime or an e-crime can be simply defined as a crime where a computer is the target of a crime or it is the means adopted to commit a crime. While some of the crimes may be new, the others are simply different ways to commit conventional crimes such as frauds, theft, blackmailing, forgery, and embezzlement using the online medium often involving the use of internet. What accelerates the growth of such crimes are typical characteristics of cyber space interalia anonymity, speed, access, dependency, borderless space.
Important cyber crimes are virus attacks, salami attacks, e-mail bombing, DOS attacks, internet hacking or information offences increase day by day.
LEGAL PROBLEMS: The Nature and Dimensions of the Information technology leads to peculiar legal problems. The problem deserve special treatment, because of the environment in which they creep up and the nature of the machinery used in the environment and the means employed for recording the information in question is typical. In all the other cases the documents are stored and transmitted through the use of visible and tangible letters, figures and marks however here the information which is stored and transmitted electronically has no visible shape or tangible form, this peculiarity of the technology gives rise to a deferent kind of legal problems. Therefore to overcome this legal problem the Information Technology Act, 2000 came into force in India on 17th of October 2000. The Act applies to all over India. Some times it applies to outside India also by any person irrespective of his nationality, if such act involves a computer, computer system or network located in India.
The computer crime or an e-crime can be simply defined as a crime where a computer is the target of a crime or it is the means adopted to commit a crime. While some of the crimes may be new, the others are simply different ways to commit conventional crimes such as frauds, theft, blackmailing, forgery, and embezzlement using the online medium often involving the use of internet. What accelerates the growth of such crimes are typical characteristics of cyber space interalia anonymity, speed, access, dependency, borderless space.
Important cyber crimes are virus attacks, salami attacks, e-mail bombing, DOS attacks, internet hacking or information offences increase day by day.
LEGAL PROBLEMS: The Nature and Dimensions of the Information technology leads to peculiar legal problems. The problem deserve special treatment, because of the environment in which they creep up and the nature of the machinery used in the environment and the means employed for recording the information in question is typical. In all the other cases the documents are stored and transmitted through the use of visible and tangible letters, figures and marks however here the information which is stored and transmitted electronically has no visible shape or tangible form, this peculiarity of the technology gives rise to a deferent kind of legal problems. Therefore to overcome this legal problem the Information Technology Act, 2000 came into force in India on 17th of October 2000. The Act applies to all over India. Some times it applies to outside India also by any person irrespective of his nationality, if such act involves a computer, computer system or network located in India.
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