Saturday, January 11, 2020

Cyber crimes against Government: 

The growth of Internet has shown that the medium of cyberspace is being used by individuals and groups to threaten the governments as also to terrorize the citizens of a country. This crime manifests itself into terrorism when an individual hacks into a government or military maintained website. There are certain offences done by a group of persons intending to threaten the international governments by using internet facilities. 
They include:

Cyber Terrorism: Cyber terrorism is a major burning issue in the domestic as well as global arenas. The common form of these terrorist attacks on the internet is by distributed denial of service attacks, hate websites and hate e-mails, attacks on sensitive computer networks etc. Cyber terrorism activities endanger the sovereignty and integrity of the nation.

Cyber warfare: Cyber warfare is politically motivated hacking of conducting sabotage and espionage. It is a form of information warfare and sometimes it is analogous to conventional warfare.

Distribution of pirated software: It involves the distribution of pirated software from one computer to another intending to destroy the data and official records of the government.

Possession of Unauthorized Information: Terrorists easily access in the information with the help of internet and possess information of political, religious, social, and ideological objectives.

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