Cyber Crime

Trends in cyber crime

The recent trends in cyber crime are professionalisation of cybercrime, hacktivism, cyberwarfare, rising rate of identity theft, epidemic of security vulnerabilities in software & networking products, shrinking time from exposure to attack, soaring rates of SPAM, targeting of web-based applications, targeting of desktop computers, new risks stemming from mobility of data; and emergence of sophisticated, multi-vector ?blended threats?.

As per Pavan Duggal, Cyber Law Expert and Advocate, Supreme Court of India, the major cyber crimes that the government and the police are facing fall in the following categories:

• The first category can be of cyber crimes against persons, like cyber-stalking, cyber harassment, cyber-nuisance.?
• The second category is cyber crimes against property, where a particular property is targeted ? a computer, a network, a data base, or some information. Hacking and cracking are typical cyber crimes against property.
• The third category is of cyber crimes against nations- where a particular nation is the target.

S S Sharma, Additional Director, CERT?IN, Department of IT, Government of India opines, ?The attack targets are critical infrastructure, the business intelligence, personal and peripheral information. Today, the motive of cyber attack is more of purpose orientated, stealing intellectual data and business information.?

Recently, the government has issued the draft of proposed National Cyber Security Policy (NCSP) that identifies indigenous development of IT products essential for curbing threats from imported hi-tech products.

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Source: http://secureit.eletsonline.com/2012/02/12/cyber-crime/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cyber-crime

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