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Unlike four of the five domains of warfare — air, land, sea, space and cyber — cyber is manmade. This affords unique latitude to shape the future of this still emerging domain. "If you think about it, cyberspace is really the one environment that we're fighting in that we can actually change. We created it in the first place — by 'we' I mean [the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency]," Kerry Long, program manager at Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, said at the CyberCon conference hosted by Federal Times in Washington on Nov. 16. Long was referencing how DARPA invented what is now commonly known across the world as the internet. "You can't change the air for the Air Force, you can't change the water for the Navy … but we can change cyberspace," he said. Long noted that in the next 10 years, cyberspace will continue to become more hazy. He anticipates that everyone across the world will use computing assets in larg...

"Hello, what number of companions you got on Facebook?" ". 200, possibly?" "Fakes in there?" "What? I don't know, who cares?" Begin minding dear companions! Numbers discharged from Facebook propose that 83 million Facebook accounts are phony. "What of it?" These Facebook records might be human or bots, prevalently known as socialbots that continue making counterfeit records and numerous researchers are on the chase to track them down. They spread spam and infections or trick clients to take their information or as of late, to draw individuals into some demonstrating sham and after that, at last, to get them trafficked or victimized. When you may be helpless, you never know. The best arrangement is to avoid these profiles and absolutely never make one yourself. We'll manage two things here: Legal Implications of Creating a phony profile in India and How to recognize a phony profile: The most effective me...

The problem of piracy in the movie biz does not need introduction . The number of pirated movie copies being openly sold in the market whether secretively or publicly, is massive. Walk into any corner of a local market and you can find people selling DVDs containing your favorite music and movies without any regard to copyright. Then there are those websites where you can “watch movies for free”. What the entire nation needs to understand as one big community is that there is a limit to these free lunches that you think you get. Upon thorough analysis of traffic and search queries it has been found that most people are looking for either this or that but they want a “free download”. The odds have luckily been in our favor that these companies, production houses and businesses don’t usually sue the common man. They try to find the distributors and nab them instead. This turns into the purpose behind numerous different issues like ransomware yet that is a theme for later. Pres...

In the event that you make a clear inquiry, the appropriate response is no. The reason such a large number of individuals (not simply youths) need a response to this inquiry is on the grounds that they are expending erotic entertainment and are apprehensive in the case of watching porn is legitimate in India. To break the ice for yet some other time, it is lawful. No one in this nation will place you in the correctional facility for watching porn unless you are doing it out in the open. All things considered, there is the entire open profound quality law being referred to. In any case, as a rule, it is unquestionably legitimate to watch porn in India until and unless it is tyke obscenity. For that regardless of the possibility that you are perplexed about the Pornography rules, you are as wiped out as this gets. No vigilante gatherings, programmers, state bodies and so forth anyplace on the planet bolster the possibility of tyke erotic entertainment. The very truth that youngst...

I've been hit with question about foul substance such huge numbers of times that I feel expounding on it is the best arrangement. I need to break down this inquiry on two unique levels: Moral and Legal. We've run over situations where young ladies and folks have sent their private personal pictures on WhatsApp bunches "by botch". The very certainty that they were intended to be sent to another person is disturbing also. The issue with WhatsApp and other moment detachments is that individuals feel "protection". They feel that correspondence is going on balanced and none else will ever observe their private minutes. The Internet is intense and Information Communication Technologies are progressive yet the way that clients feel that there is an alternate arrangement of morals on the web, isn't right. Ethically, Would you click naked pictures, print them, secure them a crate and send through post? In the event that your answer is no, you trul...

India is ranked a high 23rd out of 165 nations in a global index with a score of 0.683, that measures the commitment of nations across the world to cyber security. The second Global Cyber Security Index (GCI), released by the UN telecommunications agency International Telecommunication Union (ITU), said only about half of all countries have a cyber security strategy or are in the process of developing one and urged more countries to consider national policies to protect against cybercrime. India has been listed in the "maturing" category, which refers to 77 countries that have developed complex commitments to cyber security and has been engaged in cyber security programmes and initiatives for the last so many years. This time the index has been topped by Singapore with a 0.925 score. According to report about 38 percent of countries have a written or published cyber security strategy and an additional 12 percent of governments are in the process of d...

The National Assembly (NA) passed the controversial Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill (PECB) 2015 after the Senate's unanimous adoption of the bill – with 50 amendments – earlier in July.  Focus of criticism :-  Critics say the bill is too harsh, with punishments that do not fit crimes The bill's language leaves it open to abuse by LEAs, agencies, the government Recommendations of stakeholders were ignored in the formulation of the law It restricts freedom of expression and access to information The offences are too numerous, overlap with other existing laws The wording of the bill leaves many clauses open to interpretation The bill specifically can be misused to target journalists’ sources and whistleblowers Criteria for surveillance is even more open-ended than in the Fair Trial Act 2013 Mechanisms for implementation are missing from this bill The bill has introduced clauses on cyberterrorism, which is not the subject of the bill ...

The controversial law provides for up to seven years in prison for "recruiting, funding and planning of terrorism" online. Pakistan has adopted a much-criticised cyber security law that grants sweeping powers to regulators to block   all private information they deemed illegal.  The National Assembly approved the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill 2015. Government officials say internet restrictions under the new law are needed to ensure security against growing threats, such as terrorism. But this law has alarmed human rights and pro-democracy activists worried that its vague language could lead to curtailment of free speech and unfair prosecutions. "The overly broad language used in the bill ensures that innocent and ignorant Pakistani citizens, unaware of the ramifications of what the bill entails, can be ensnared and find themselves subject to very harsh penalties,"   By- Nighat Daad, founder of a group called the Digital Rights Foundation. ...

Although there is no any accepted definition of the term cyber stalking, the word used in the report refers to the use of Internet like an e-mail, or any other electronic communication devices to stalk any other person. The word stalking generally involves harassing or threatening behavior of an individual person repeatedly, like a person is  appearing in a person’s home or place of business, making phone calls of harassing , leaving messages in written or any objects.  How do they Operate Nature and Extent of Cyber stalking Prevention Tips What To Do If You Are Being Stalked ? Some people conduct cyber stalking involving annoying behavior might fall short of illegal stalking; such behavior might be a prelude for stalking and violence and should be treated seriously. There are both kind of Stalkers they are Online & Offline both have desires to control the life of victim’s life. In a majority numbers of stalkers are those who are rejected by their lo...

India has an extremely detailed and well-defined legal system in place.  Numerous laws have been enacted and implemented and the foremost amongst them is the Indian Constitution. We have inter alia, amongst others, the Indian Penal Code, Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, the Companies Act, and so on.  However the arrival of Internet signaled the beginning of the rise of new and complex legal issues in the country. It may be pertinent to mention that all the existing laws which place in India were enacted way back keeping in mind the situation of political, social, economic, and cultural scenario of that relevant time. Nobody can really visualize about the Internet. Despite of the brilliant acumen of our draftsmen, master the requirements of cyber could hardly ever be anticipated. As such, the coming of the use of Internet led to the emergence of numerous types of legal issues and problems which necessitated the enactment of the Cyber laws in India. In fact,...

Information Technology Act one of the outcome of the resolution which was to be dated on 30th January 1997 from  the General Assembly of the United Nations, which adopts the Model Law on Electronic Commerce,  Model Law on Electronic Commerce on International Trade Law . This type of resolution recommends, inter alia, that all states have to give favorable consideration to the said Model Law as adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nation while it revise enactment for new law, so that the uniformity of the laws may be observed by the various cyber-nations, applicable for the alternative to paper based methods of communication and storage of the information. The Department of Electronics (DOE) in July 1998 drafted a bill . However, the bill could only be introduced in the House on December 16, 1999 (after a gap of almost one and a half years) when the new IT Ministry was formed in our country. It goes through substantial alteration, with the C...