Cybercrime

Cybercrime, also called computer crime, the use of a computer as an instrument to further illegal ends, such as committing fraud and intellectual property, stealing identities, or violating privacy. Cybercrime, especially through the Internet, has grown in importance as the computer has become central to commerce, entertainment, and government. New technologies create new criminal opportunities but few new types of crime. What distinguishes cybercrime from traditional criminal activity? Obviously, one difference is the use of the digital computer, but technology alone is insufficient for any distinction that might exist between different realms of criminal activity. Criminals do not need a computer to commit fraud, traffic in child pornography and intellectual property, steal an identity, or violate someone’s privacy. All those activities existed before the “cyber” prefix became ubiquitous. Cybercrime, especially involving the Internet, represents an extension of existing criminal behaviour alongside some novel illegal activities. Cybercrime ranges across a spectrum of activities. At one end are crimes that involve fundamental breaches of personal or corporate privacy, such as assaults on the integrity of information held in digital depositories and the use of illegally obtained digital information to blackmail a firm or individual. Cybercrime should be removed from our life and we should be more careful and aware of these such crimes.   There are various types of cybercrime: identity theft, internet fraud, ATM fraud, wire fraud, file sharing and piracy, counterfeiting and hacking, computer viruses, spam, steganography and email hacking and sabotage. The Department of cybercrime receives all reports regarding all violations of the law and conducts investigations to verify the veracity of the communications and the seriousness of the information and to take appropriate legal action.  If you’re facing any situation of cybercrime you can visit us.