Cyber Crimes Becoming Threat to Cyber Security

Cyber crime is a generic term that refers to all criminal activities done using the medium of computers, the internet, cyber space and the worldwide web. The growing danger from crimes committed against computers, or against information on computers by persons involved in the profession of crimes, has become a major issue in India. For an effective application, the existing laws must be constantly reviewed and modified accordingly to face the challenges coming from the cyber world. In this paper, we've discussed the cyber crimes as one of the challenges for cyber laws and it also discussed about the cyber crimes that have continued to grow as one of the threats to the users of the cyber society. We've also discussed the laws in cyber space and their need along with the IT Act-2000. Some more viewpoints presented in the paper include: the legal drawbacks with regards to cyber crimes being solved in India, and the need for new legalizations. The main emphasis of the paper revolves around the challenges faced by cyber laws in regulating cyber crimes.