Law Advices and Legal Tips

All crimes can now be IT-related. Cyber crime can thus be anything from financial crimes to hacking, copyright infringement, trademark infringement and online trading of illegal services and products such as pimping and drugs

IT-related crime can occur both on the Internet and in traditional physical environments.

For hacking the penalty is a fine or imprisonment up to two years. For computer fraud is the same sentence unless the crime is considered to be serious. For serious computer fraud penalty is less than six months to six years in prison.

Kinds of cyber crime :

*Banking via the Internet
Many banks now offer banking services over the Internet. Several security use, and solutions that scratch cards or similar, partly through identification certificates.

*Computer use
Find information on how you can protect yourself and your computer from various types of attacks. For example, download yourself a good free antivirus and have a firewall effective protection.

*Discussion
The provider of discussion forums on the Internet is required to oversee the service. The higher demands on the operators of forums than on individuals.

*Grooming
Grooming means that any contact with others to commit abuse later on. In most cases, it is about men who seek contact with young girls.

*Hackers and intruders
A port scan means that an attacker, so-called hacker, knocking on your doors to see if a port is open to attack. Ports are your exit doors from the PC to the Internet. With a personal firewall to protect against port scans modern.

*Shop the Internet
To shop online, you should use a separate account or credit card that is not linked to your regular checking account.

*Lottery Frauds
A form of fraud on the Internet are spam e-mail, called spam, which the receiver is said to be the winner of a winning.

*Modem hijacking
If you use a dial up connection to the Internet or mobile broadband, that is, via a modem, there are programs that can take over your modem and dial another modem pool. This is known colloquially of modem hijacking.

*Nigerian Letter
So-called Nigerian Letter is a type of fraud on the Internet. Fraudsters send fake e-mails and say they need help to bring large sums of money out of their homeland. The victim offered money if they pay any fees in advance.

*Standards and rules on the Internet
In ordinary society most people know how to behave and what you can and can not do. On the Internet, this is not always obvious.

*Privacy Act
All types of information that directly or indirectly linked to an individual who is included in the life of the Data Protection Act, Privacy policy. In addition to personal data are also photos in as an individual task.

*Phishing – Phishing
Phishing Phishing or implies that any outsider trying to obtain private information such as account details via fake emails. The letters often look to come from a real business. Never give out information in this way.

*Spam, unsolicited e-mail
The law prohibits sending e-mail advertising that is not ordered, so-called spam. Similar rules will apply throughout the EU, both for e-mail advertising, advertising via fax, SMS, MMS and automatic call-backs.

*Harassment and threats from the Internet
You encounter material on the Internet that you perceive as threatening, unpleasant or even criminal, you can report it to police.

*Viruses and Trojans
Virus spread can be classified as criminal damage if it is intentional and does no damage in the affected systems. Do not rely on virus alerts via e-mail, they are almost always false.