Academic Discourse
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue: 2

Internet Usage and Cyber-Victimization in Indian Society

  • Author:
  • Saroj Mehta, Vikram Singh
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 124 to 131

Department of Computer Science Ch Devi Lal University, Sirsa, Haryana, India

Online published on 18 June, 2014.

Abstract

Widespread use of internet and World Wide Web provides for a wide range of virtual activities that are carried out in the cyberspace. These virtual activities are as vulnerable to attacks as real life activities. The patterns of such activities and the related offences are highly diverse in nature. The attackers may be pseudonyms along with having the advantage of not being physically present at the place of target of cyber attacks.

Keywords

Cyberspace, virtual activities, cybervictims etc