Cyber Crime and Information Warfare-The New Arenas for WAR

With the advent, advancement and development of the Internet and particularly the World-Wide-Web has accelerated the perception in mankind for his dependency on information technology. As a consequence, various problems of national and international law and ethics have emerged which have increasingly been grabbing the attention of cyber experts, public policy makers and national security experts, especially those concerned about the future of warfare. A new form of warfare, “Information warfare”, is defined to occur when one nation seeks to obtain strategic leverage over another by subverting, disrupting or damaging information systems. Compared to other forms of warfare, information warfare possesses several distinct features. The distinct features of information warfare and the legal/ethical ramifications of these features are characterized in order to stimulate a deeper consideration of this new context.

The authors here will focus on the measures to prevent cyber crime, effects of these crimes on teenagers and more importantly Legal Issues Concerned with Information warfare & e-Crime.