Author : Anirudhan C 1
Date of Publication :7th November 2016
Abstract: The world has evolved from using one’s brain to cloning one’s brain. A person is not assured whether the data with him is safe or leaked.People have moved on in their formal and informal behavior to being digitalized.Profits and loss in the commercial markets today are decided in matters of software. Hacking and electronic crimes sophistication has grown at an exponential rate in recent years. In fact, recent reports have indicated that cyber crime already surpasses the illegal drug trade!Source code theft, Online banking frauds, Online share trading fraud,Virus attacks, Cyber sabotage, Phishing attacks, E-mail hijacking are the most common threats in the cyber world today.In this paper we are discussing about the how factor of cyber crime and analyzing the methods to retrieve data, tools to find the culprit.The detailed process of detecting hacking attacks and properly extracting evidence to report the crime and conduct audits to prevent future attacks is also discussed
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