One of the major concerns, while getting into the New Year, is cyber crime, which is reported to have recorded a rise in 2006. With upswing in online transactions and e-commerce, there seems a need to include the new breed of educated criminals.
Cyber crime is nowadays in our word list and we know how destructive this new breed of criminals could be. As reported by National Research Council,
The modern thieves are able to steal more with a PC than with a gun. Tomorrow’s terrorist could be capable to do more harm with a keyboard than with a bomb.
That says it all — regarding the threat & danger that has been brought about with the most revolutionary of technologies, the Internet, which is synonymous with the worldwide web or wwww.
A cyber criminal can commit theft of data to churn money, annoy the user in unusual ways and brings about the malicious stuff such as: viruses, spyware, malware, badware, Spam, Trojan. etc that could infect our files & systems. The majority of nations, getting acquainted with the threat from the tech-savvy criminals, have formed laws to penalize crooks. In India, the police have come ahead to handle the crooks with iron hand by setting up cyber cells to embark upon this new troublemaker. However these measures have born out to be inadequate, as the lawmakers frequently do not have high expertise that is required to restrain cyber crimes.
However the most essential than the law is the question: what is behind cyber crime? The majority of cyber creeps are from the educated lot, which does not make it that, much easy to control. Some days before, a newspaper reported that loads of young students were being employed in London to commit cyber crimes. Obviously, cyber crimes are getting more organized and there does not seem now only single person committing the crime. Apparently, if money is being paid to the recruits, money is being gained via cyber scams.
India should be ready to deal with this type of crime, as it has a large — or maybe the largest — pond of techies and to compound it additionally there is the difficulty of rising unemployment, which chiefly thrusts people to crime. Unemployment in India went up from 6.0% in 1993-94 to 7.3% in 1999-2000, moving up the numeral of job seekers to 27 million. The most disquieting part is that of these, 74 % are in rural areas and 60 % are educated.
Because the problem of unemployment is linked to cyber crime, there can be no respite from it till this root cause is addressed. Going by current scenario, we will have to live with cyber crime for years to come.
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