Cyber Crimes: Impact, Classification, and Fight Against It

Running head: cyber crimes
Cyber crimes

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Contents
Cyber-crime................................................................................................................................2
Abstract......................................................................................................................................2
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Classification of the cyber-crime...............................................................................................3
Factors of cyber-crime...............................................................................................................5
Social and economic Impact of cyber-crime..............................................................................6
Major issues of cyber-crime and cyber security........................................................................7
The fight against cyber-crime....................................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
Reference..................................................................................................................................11

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Cyber-crime
Abstract
In the present advanced technological era, cyber-crime is emerging as a serious threat to
individual and nation. The crime explore by the internet services where accused of cyber-
crime attack victim mentally through online services in order to accomplish its criminal
motive. The consequences of the cyber-crime affects directly to the society due to its
detrimental perception made towards any particular individual or any country at large.
The present paper focuses on the general idea about the cyber-crime and its impact in order to
establish the awareness and knowledge in a public. The cyber-crime deals with several causes
and impacts which risen the internet. The issues of cyber-crime are discussed so that
activities can be ascertained of the cybercriminals. The recent developments of the cyber-
crime are also traced in the organisational assets.
Some of the highlighting cyber-crimes are hacking, spoofing, phishing, internet fraud, online
harassment and cyber terrorism. The nature of such cyber-crimes creates a serious extortion
or threatening on every individual or user of the visual world. There is constant pressure or
threat surrounded in the cyber world due to such existing crimes (Reyes et.al, 2011).
Thus, the paper suggests that there is an urgent need to curb the online malpractices for a
purpose to remove the roots of the cyber-crimes. Such visual crime activities can be removed
only by the effective implementation of policies or scheme in favour of cyber security. The
strong requisition of cyber security is a boon to eliminate the adverse methods of cyber-
crime. The government and legislation plays an affirmative role to protect the zone of cyber
world and remove completely the evil practice of cyber-crimes.

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Introduction
The concept of “cyber-crime “describe as an online criminal activity introduced by any
cybercriminal through the network or devices of any computer. For instance-the activities of
cyber-crime include any unauthorized entry or access of stranger without the consent of
original user where any illegal or unlawful interference takes place (Wall, 2007).
A term “cyber-crime” is defined as online criminal activities took place either targeting a
computer networks or devices of any individual. The computer networks or devices of an
individual are target by any malware or malicious code or spam, denial of service (Dos)
attack and any introduction of viruses in the computer (Anderson et.al. 2013).
The cyber-crime introduced in the early years of 1990s when the cyber world was developing
and adopting new techniques. Such advanced development in the information technology
emerged the introduction of the “cyber-crime”. The past reports by the IT experts stated that
the year 1992 recorded the history of cyber-crime. Currently, the report of cyber-crimes, 2016
specifies the high rate of commission of cyber-crimes approximately in 21.5 to 28.9 per cent
in the developed countries like United States and other European countries (Kshetri, 2009).
The cyber-crime is a serious threatening issue where not only credentials of individual affects
but the trap continues to the big units or bodies of the nation only for purposes to accomplish
the evil or criminal motive and illegal profits out of it. Such increasing level in the cyber-
crime increases on numerous causes or factors which is able to provide deep impacts on
societal or economical elements (Burden & Palmer, 2009).
Classification of the cyber-crime
There are number of ways by which the security and privacy can be compromised (Pinguelo
& Muller, 2011). The classification of the cyber-crime is as follows: