Cyber Crime in Pakistan: Issues, Challenges, and Countermeasures

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Cyber Crime in Pakistan: Issues, Challenges, and Countermeasures
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Background......................................................................................................................................2
Aim and Objective...........................................................................................................................3
Purpose of Study..............................................................................................................................3
Research Questions..........................................................................................................................4
Literature Review............................................................................................................................4
Reasons of cyber-attack in Pakistan............................................................................................4
Types of Cyber-Attack in Pakistan..............................................................................................4
Countermeasures taken to Prevent Cyber-attack.........................................................................5
Methodology....................................................................................................................................6
Summary..........................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Cybercrime is mainly defined as the crime in which computer is considered as an object
of the crime that is to be conducted which generally includes phishing, spamming, and hacking.
Cybercrime is a tool that can commit many offenses (Awan and Memon 2016). The cybercrime
consists of wide range of activities and are basically broken into two categories. The crimes
which targets the computer devices or networks. These crimes includes viruses as well as DoS
(Denial of Service) attacks. The crimes that uses the network of computers for proceeding
criminal activities. These includes crimes such as phishing, fraud, and cyberstalking.
Background
The effect of cybercrime is increasing tremendously in Pakistan. As recorded by the
cybercrime unit of Pakistan, there are 62 cases which were reported in the unit in the year 2010,
87 cases in the year 2011, as well as 75 in the 2014. There are more than 312 cases which were
registered in many categories related to cyber-crime. The rate of cybercrime has increased in the
year 2014 in comparison with 2013. There is saying that “Nip the evil in the Bud” which states
that all the stakeholders should urgently chalk out some preventive measures or some strategies
for controlling the increasing rate of cybercrime (Munir and Gondal 2017). There should be
training provided to all the employees employed in IT department and there should be proper
preventive measures for adding the risks to the people. For making the people aware of
cybercrime such as spamming, hacking, harassment and phishing, there is need of proper training
in the sector of Information Technology for preventing cyber-attacks.