International Journal of Marketing and Management Research
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 4

E-crime and its social awareness: A review

  • Author:
  • Wadadare Swati S., Shinde Anita J.
  • Total Page Count: 9
  • Page Number: 139 to 147

*Department of Computer Science & IT, MGM's College of CS & IT, MGM Campus, Nanded – 431605, India

**Department of Computer Science & IT, MGM's College of CS & IT, MGM Campus, Nanded – 431605, India

Abstract

E-crime refers to criminal activity that involves the use of a computer and the internet. These can be traditional criminal offenses committed with the use of a computer and newer crimes that originated with the advent of computers and networks. These crimes cover a very large and diverse range of offenses.

Due to the nature of e-Crime, and its ability to evolve with technology, new threats are emerging with an alarming degree of regularity and simply maintaining a better appreciation of the risks we face could have a significant effect on our ability to respond to them if the need arises.

This paper aims to discuss e-crime classification and solutions on each crime so that the society members viz Childs, Younger, Parents, Businessman and everyone from World will be aware of e-crime and will be secure while accessing data from Network.

Keywords

Botnets, DoS, Phishing, Scareware, Spam, Spyware, Hacktivism