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Cybercrime Against Government

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WHAT IS CYBERCRIME?
Today, the world is moving towards a point where almost everything if not everything depends on software. From banking, traffic control, telephones, health care, welfare even down to education. This tremendous development, and the rise in the capacity and accessibility of computers together with the decrease in cost, has brought about changes in every aspect of human civilization, including crime.
Cybercrime is an evil having its source in the growing necessity on computers in the current lifestyle. In a day and age when everything from calculators to wristwatches to mobile phones to televisions and to nuclear power plants is being run on computers, cybercrime has assumed rather dire implications.
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Against Government: According to International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering the third category of Cyber-crimes relates to Cybercrimes against Government. Cyber terrorism is one distinct kind of crime in this category. The growth of internet has shown that the medium of Cyberspace is being used by individuals and groups to threaten the international governments as also to threaten the citizens of a country. This crime manifests itself into terrorism when an individual "cracks" into a government or military maintained website.
Although not as common as the other two categories, crimes against a government are referred to as cyber terrorism. If successful, this category can wreak havoc and cause panic amongst the civilian population. In this category, criminals hack government websites, military websites or circulate propaganda. The perpetrators can be terrorist outfits or unfriendly governments of other nations.
According to Derek Hitch When cyber attacker cracks government website, military website, then such type of crimes come under “Against Government” class of cybercrime. Even such crime happens by circulating false information with a reason to spread terror among people of that particular …show more content…

There are many types of cybercrimes and the most common ones are explained below:
2.4.1 Cyber Stalking This is a kind of online harassment wherein the victim is subjected to a barrage of online messages and emails. Typically, these stalkers know their victims and instead of resorting to offline stalking, they use the Internet to stalk. However, if they notice that cyber stalking is not having the desired effect, they begin offline stalking along with cyber stalking to make the victims’ lives more miserable.
According to the International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering, cyber stalking is expressed or implied a physical threat that creates fear through the use to computer technology such as internet, e-mail, phones, text messages, webcam, websites or videos.
According to The International Journal of Engineering and Science (IJES), the fraudster follows the victim by distributing mails and entering the chat rooms

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