Information Technology has opened a dazzling world new world of INTERNET before us. All the business, banking and other sophisticated commercial transactions have become just a mouse click away. Everything has become more effective and less time consuming. While web is a boon to us in a way, it has also proved its negative powers in several ways.
The benefits of the information technology are used maliciously by a specific group of people who can be called cyber criminals in general. These cyber criminal include hackers and crackers who make illicit use of internet services. These so-called criminals are able to gain unauthorized access to other computers to steal worthy or useful data from the database to make personal profit. This is completely against law.
The most important tool of the criminals is obviously the computer. The medium that they make use of, to gain valuable information from reputed companies is nothing other than the word wide web. The ways that are usually employed by them are phishing, wire transfer, spoofing and pharming. The criminals can also enter private net accounts by way of many techniques, thereby hacking Domain Name Server and Internet Provider’s (IP) address.
The twisted term ‘cyber crime’ has no boundaries and limits. It has wide coverage in all the nations as hackers can be found anywhere in the world. The use of information technology by the cyber terrorists with a view to make destructive effects is called cyber crime. The key factor behind this stream of crime is low rate of traceability and time-consuming persecution. Hackers can work from anywhere in the world peacefully and devastate the economic and political structure of a country as a whole.
In such a scenario the only feasible solution can be to safe guard oneself against such misuse of advanced technology. Yet it’s a fact that the legal system has to be more sophisticated and intrigued to combat the activities of cyber terrorists. More advanced and systematic methods shall be formulated to curb the crimes in time at all.
The severity of the situation can be understood more clearly when we come to know that many of the financial and banking institutions world wide pay money to these criminals to avoid their malpractice. They are compelled to do so for saving their name and fame among their customers.
Even though we have succeeded in tackling many of the cyber crimes and blocking their efforts we still are threatened by the fact that the grave problem still continues to exist amongst us in varied forms. As this problem has its root in all the nations in the world, there has to be better understanding and co-operation among the international agencies that deal with the thwarting of cyber crimes and criminals. The body of law should ensure that the new technology is used for the benefit of the people only and take necessary measures to prevent misuse of advanced technology..