Online Cyber Crimes And Its Aspects

Growing IT industry is helping human being through several methods. We can save time, money and efforts without any loss of quality and data. Now distance is not a problems and time is too much to do more works. Now-a-days industry is inventing new technologies and methods to make an effortless world where nothing will be impossible. It industry is giving maximum cooperation to lead the world in the new technological era.

Growth of IT industry has solved thousands of problems but it has created many new problems that were not thought or faced by us in previous history such as illegal data transmission, terrorism, increasing pornography, fraud, spamming and much more. Developed countries have started work in this direction and setup a different department especially for the crime related to IT industry, which are called also Cyber Crimes. According to wikipedia.org, Cyber Crime is a form of crime where the internet or computers are used as a medium to commit crime. We can include hacking, copyright infringement, illegal money transition by fraud or hacking, child pornography, virus child grooming, drug trafficking etc. in brief we can say that IT industry needs extra responsibility and strict international law.

The law which deals with cyber crime is called cyber law. Mostly countries are following US cyber laws and international cyber law to stop the cyber crime in their borders. According to cyber law we can divided it into two types of categories:

1. Crimes in which computer networks or devices are target directly. We can count virus, malicious software, spamming etc. in this type.
2. Crime is committed through computer network or device. This is more tough then previous as it has included first also.

We can divide cyber crime in following categories:

Spam: is the unsubscribed sending of bulk email for commercial or personal purposes. Spamming is strictly illegal by law. Many nations have setup anti-spam laws to sort out the local matter.

Computer Fraud: is another serious type of fraud through internet which has targeted many people in previous months. Some mischievous persons also tried to make a cheating with financial institutions and companies, which results financial loss or illegal money transfer.

Offensive Content: IT industry has simplify to make a website, but it has also create a new trouble for experts as thousands of people are uploaded offensive and obscene content which may be racial, illegal and unlawful. You may get here content on how to murder, how to rape, how to hack bank and much more. This information is now easily accessible for everyone, which may be dangerous for all humanity.

Pornography: IT industry has played the most important role to spread pornography in all over world. IT industry has provided tools with infinite power, which are continue generating porn content including child pornography and adult videos, pictures, text and many things. According to Google, adults sites are earning maximum money than other websites.

Drug Trafficking: Internet has made marketing easy, that anybody can reach to anyone to sell a drug or something else. Mafia is also using this tool to sell their illegal drugs taking advantages of internet. There is no need of face-to-face communication in online selling or so it more easy to sell their recipes and prepared drugs to all over the world without any limit.

Cyber terrorism: is a new type of terrorism which is a new threat to human being from terrorist. Terrorists are using internet and other technologies to achieve their target, they distributed offensive content and drugs. They are hiring new generation to join their terrorist organization. They are communicating more easily with other international terrorists and are creating great problems for human being.

Hacking: Hacking is the worst side of internet technology as it is used to achieve all illegal purposes. Today it is also used by state’s government to hack its enemy’s national security. Criminals are using hacking to earn a lot of money, while the nations are hacking for knowing their enemies internal secrets. This is the only crime which is done at national level by government as well as criminals.