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.

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.

Computer Systems

The research shows that cyber crime has increased significantly in 2009. Also viruses, spam and spyware are common on farms. Slightly more than half have large amounts of spam. At 38 percent was infected by computer viruses and spyware. The threat comes not only from outside, because (former) employees are also a major risk factor. Jacob Verschuur, director of Ernst and Young, states that if a trajectory of an employee on the trip, the employee resentment copying sensitive data.

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.

After a long run in which he notes that China is not being able to respond militarily against the United States, he describes the vulnerability of advanced countries for cybercrime. Fallows cites computer expert Eugene Spafford:

It is well-funded and Pursued by mature Individuals and groups of professionals with deep financial and technical resources, in loss or with local government (or Other countries’) if not toleration support. Already it is Responsible for billions of dollars a year in losses, and it is growing and Become more capable. Have we largely ignored it.

Mike McConnell, former security chief, notes that the biggest deal about being silent.

No credit card company wants to ADMIT in loss or how it is or how Easily Cheated. No bank or investment house wants to ADMIT how close it Has Come to electronically-being robbed. As A result, the changes in law, regulation, concept, or habit That Could make life safer online do not get discussed.

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.