Cyber Law and hacking

Cyber Law and Hacking.

Cyber law pertains to laws that handle violations and rights of digital world. There was a time there was no laws and nothing can be done.

Now days email is considered as Evidence.
Cyber crimes are of three categories:
1. Cyber crimes that against Persons.
2. Cyber crimes that against Property.
3. Cyber crimes that against Government.
Cyber crimes usually target the following :

Computer

Computer devices

Networked computer.

The sole aim of cyber crime is making money. Cyber Criminals are expert in technology and programming.

The types of Cyber Crimes are :

Email Fraud
Identity Fraud
Theft of financial or card payment data
Theft and sale of corporate data.
Infringing Copy Right

Cyber criminals may infect a computer with malware. These malwares may steal data or delete. Important data should be backed up in a portable drive.

A portable drive is an important drive.

A usual size is 2 TB, that is 2 X 1024 GB.

There might be incidence of sudden corruption of data . In that case important documents may be lost worth millions of Dollars.

The laws in place are :

Information Act
Digital Security Act

These acts are present in many countries and differ from country to county.

In summary,

Posts made on :

Facebook
Twitter

against governments will result in penalization of the person who posts.

Things to take care are :

Software comes under Copyright Law. A software cannot be used with out permission or copied. Countries having this law will result in great penalization.

An example would be of an Indian company who got penalized with a lawsuit from Oracle for using pirated cds.