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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. Read the rest of this entry »

From a sample of accounting firm Ernst and Young, quarter of the companies is inadequate security against cyber criminals.The economic crisis plays an important role.

Of the respondents, one in eight companies last year some were the victims of cyber fraud in which money was stolen. One in ten companies were copied sensitive information. Here I was terrified of it. Did not realize how close it was! The damage that cyber criminals cause is not known exactly, but this involves billions of euros. Not normal. Time for action.

Entrepreneurs should take measures against these cyber criminals, but by the economic crisis, they are less inclined to invest in system security. In 43 percent of respondents have access to the system is not sufficiently regulated and sensitive data. Read the rest of this entry »

In what is Russia top list of threats, Israel second, and France and Brazil shared third and fourth place? Moreover, with China as a shadow of options on everything going?

It is the ranking of countries where the most dangerous cyber crime comes from. In Russia, the combined state, organized crime and dangerous individuals destructive force. Israel used cybercrime to his political interests to defend, France supports there are economic interests them. From Brazil is becoming more electronic financial crime committed. And China is catching up, but everything goes so fast and so widespread that it is only a matter of time before the country also appears prominently on the list .

These warnings are in a long article in Atlantic Monthly, entitled Cyber Warriors. James Fallows, former correspondent in China, it is an alarming prediction: there will sooner or later an electronic equivalent of 9 / 11. And even now, says Fallows, we could see it coming. Read the rest of this entry »

Internet has come with blessing side benefits for human to deal with a vast array of individual interest. We can take lots of advantages from this meta-medium to get information, run businesses, make money, online education, social community building, healthcare, services, and many more.

The increasing adherence of the people to the internet has caused a certain extent of individual dependence on it. With regards to the safe and comfort sense of individual and institutional users of internet, we need a set of cyber law whereby any disobeying manner and breaching acts of irresponsible people can be treated best as a form of cyber crimes.

Even though most of countries in the world have not been imposing the similar cyber law, some online corporate and huge companies have been applying the legal provision in accordance to each home country. Any form of jurisdictional lawsuit, criminal process, and legal dispute settlements will be referring the national authorities where the head-office of online companies is located.

Good news is that people in general and indirectly, agree any forms of common ethics rule of using internet. This might be a good manner of individual users of internet worldwide amidst the existing irresponsible manners of online scammers, hackers, and website crackers.

Aside from how the regulatory compliance of the forthcoming internet jurisdiction will be, cyber is still expected to be enabled to protect the continuing comfort and sustainability of meta-medium world.