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. 

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