World Cyber Security Forum Blogs

Introduction A clandestine revolution has been underway in cyberspace, transcending conventional notions of crime. This article embarks on a journey to decipher the intricate relationship between technology and the evolution of cybercrime. In this digital era through which technological advancements have permeated every facet of our existence, an examination is undertaken of how cybercriminal enterprises have been formed and how they have been driven to evolve in novel and unanticipated ways. Historical Perspective While cybercrime in its nascent stage existed within a substantially more insular digital environment, the infrastructure supporting modern interconnectivity remained scarcely foreseeable, living only as a speculative vision of future technological advancement. Limited technology posed both challenges and opportunities for cybercriminals. Hackers, often driven by curiosity or experimentation, explored vulnerabilities in rudimentary computer systems. Notable early cybercr...

Introduction In addition to nation-state players, the cyber world is also filled with well-organized criminal groups, independent terrorist groups, and "just for fun" hackers of all stripes. Each offers a particular kind of threat that calls for a complex, varied response. Since the potential threat is a natural part of the internet and hence cannot be completely erased, we refer to the issue as embedded. In traditional warfare, governments have to spend considerable financial and personnel resources on every front—land, air, and sea—but in cyberspace, a single person may wipe out an entire nation. Nuclear weapons need a lot of work to construct, whereas cyber weapons may demonstrate immense harm without costing a dime. Regarding national security, cyber threats have the capacity to endanger the integrity of crucial infrastructure, disrupt the financial system, permit the theft of intellectual property and trade secrets, and deteriorate ties between the government and its...

  “ Crime and bad lives are the measure of a state’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community .”   ~  H.G Wells All of us in the present time must have come across the term cyber crime in our daily lives at some or other time. With the expanding horizons of the internet, criminal activities have also expanded their reach over the virtual world. Cyber crime is the common denomination given to activities which use a computer device to further illegal activities like fraud, trafficking, forgery, breaching privacy etc. With every passing year, the rate at which these activities take place has grown tenfold. Between, 2012 and 2018, cyber crime incidents registered were around 90,000. According to data published in 2020, the rate of cyber crimes against children has increased by 400%.Therefore, a constant vigil is required to keep the cybercrimes in check. Since, the cybercrimes are conducted using technologically advanced tools, a special legislati...

  Twitter is one of the most commonly used social media networking platforms and is very popular amongst celebrities as well. People enjoy uploading tweets and retweets over Twitter. It is a good platform for social messaging, news and marketing, etc. But recently twitter has been in the news for a change in its privacy policy. Just a few weeks after the announcement that Elon Musk was going to acquire that social media platform, Twitter had revamped its privacy policy. Everyone was expecting something big after that announcement and many were curious to know if there will be any changes in that micro-blogging platform. Later on, Twitter introduced the privacy policy to their users by creating a video guide for users so that they can understand the privacy policy. Also, Twitter has said that its new privacy policy is much more simplified and organized under three new heads namely data use, data sharing, and data collection. The new version of twitter’s privacy policy will take effe...

This bill was presented in the Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha in March 2022 & received its consent on April 4, 2022 from both the houses of the parliament. This bill will replace the Identifications of Prisoners Act, 1920. The main motive of this bill is to ensure more efficient & speedy investigation by the use of technology. However, this bill is raising some serious privacy issues & concerns on Right to Privacy of an individual. Prominent Features of this Bill This bill gives the power to the police & other investigating agency to collect, store & analyze the fingerprints, iris & other biological samples of the prisoners. The NCRB (National Crime Record Bureau) will act as the central repository where all these samples along with handwriting & signatures samples will be stored for 75 years It further broaden the scope by allowing the Police to even take the body measurements from convicts, habitual offenders and ‘other persons’ However, the existing law ...