Issues and Challenges of Cyber Crime in India
The present paper is an attempt to discuss issues and challenges of Cyber Crime in India from an ethical perspective.
Ethics is a branch of philosophy which deals with what is considered to be right or wrong.
Cybercrime is emerging as a serious threat. Computer Technology is one of the important general-purpose Technologies in today’s age for several reasons. Today it is used in almost all the organizations, institutions, and people. Computer technology makes the life so speedy and fast, but hurled under the eclipse of threat from the deadliest type of criminality termed as 'Cyber-crime’. The advancement of IT brings so many facilities to us; but also brings so many problems and challenges too and out of which Cyber Crime is a kind of offence which deals with the cyber world which includes computer security, information security, and mobile security too. The increasing number of crimes in the field of Information Technology brings a big attraction to Cyber Crime to everyone.
Foremostly, the question arises what is cyber-crime and why it takes place?
As per my believe, cyber-crime is defined as any criminal activity which is done with the use of digital/electronic technology like mobile phones and computer and it usually happens mainly due to two reasons: - 1. Greediness and 2. Carelessness for example, someone receiving malicious or phishing link and entering their personal information and credentials without knowing the authenticity of that link and due to his/her carelessness the scammer got opportunity takes advantage of their personal valuable information for his own benefits. Sometimes some websites offer premium paid content or application for free of cost and people tend to get drawed to those websites and install via malicious link and this end up providing remote access to scammers and hackers.
Main Reasons behind the cybercrimes: -
For the sake of recognition.
For the sake of quick money.
Catching by law and enforcement agency is less effective and more expensive.
New opportunity to do legal acts using technical architecture.
No concrete regulatory measure.
Lack of reporting and standards.
Difficulty in identification
Corporate cyber-crimes are done collectively and not by individual persons.
So, next comes legal and technical issues in cybercrime investigations. Cyber-crime is a crime done with the misuse of information technology for unauthorized or illegal access, electronic fraud; like deletion, alteration, interception, concealment of data, forgery etc. Cybercrime is an international crime as it has been affected by the global revolution in information and communication majorly impacting issue worldwide. When someone got trapped in the trap of scammer what the next step, they report the fraud through 1930 or www.cybercrime.gov.in So what happens we try to gather as much as information we can get about the trap and if we found any website or Gmail account or any other account of scammer. Police through the Law Enforcement Request System Portal request the company to provide more details like IPDR (Internet Protocol Detail Record) and CDR (Call Detail Record). Under 91 Crpc notice, whenever any Court or any officer in charge of a police station considers that the production of any document or other thing is necessary or desirable for the purposes of any investigation, inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code.
How we can Prevent us by Cyber Crime? There are so many actions available to reducing Cyber Crime and cyber offence and out of which followings are important such as: -
Legal Action
Awareness Building
Technological Build-up