CYBER SECURITY - CYBER THEFT

What is Cyber Theft?

Cyber theft occurs when your financial or personal information is stolen via computers or smart phones. They are criminal offences committed via the Internet, online networks or any social media sites.

Cyber thieves can target both corporations and individuals. One cyber theft example happened with adobe as well when their intercepted message was got stolen that is another thing that they worked on it and nothing big happened and they said actually hash message got stolen so no need to worry big.

How to prevent from cyber theft?

• Shop on secure websites.
• Monitor your bank accounts or other personal sites.
• Update your password with interval of time.
• Smartly open your web-mails or electronic-mail.
• Smartly use PC, Tablets and mobile of others.

The abuse of computers has also given birth to a gamut of new age crimes that are addressed by the Information Technology Act, 2000.

                             Cyber law in INDIA....

  

   The Indian Government has in 2003 announced plans on a comprehensive law for cyber crimes.

THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000
                (No. 21 of 2000)

CHAPTER XI

OFFENCES

66. Hacking with computer system.

1.  Whoever with the intent to cause or knowing that he is likely to cause wrongful loss or damage to          the public or any person destroys or deletes or alters any information residing in a computer                  resource or diminishes its value or utility or affects it injurious by any means, commits hack.

2.  Whoever commits hacking shall be punished with imprisonment up to three years, or with fine                 which may extend up to two Lakh rupees, or with both.