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Cyber law (also referred to as Cyber law) is a term used to describe the legal issues related to use of communications technology, particularly "cyberspace", i.e. the Internet. It is less a distinct field of law in the way that property or contract are, as it is an intersection of many legal fields, including intellectual property, privacy, freedom of expression, and jurisdiction. In essence, cyber law is an attempt to apply laws designed for the physical world to human activity on the Internet. In India Information Technology Act [Amend.] 2008 is known as the Cyber law. It has a separate chapter XI entitled Offences in which various cyber crimes have been declared as penal offences punishable with imprisonment and fine.

Cyber crime refers to all criminal activities done using the medium of computers, the internet, cyber space and the worldwide web. There isn't really a fixed definition for cyber crime. The Indian Law has not given any definition to the term cyber crime'. IPC does not use the term cyber crime "Cyber Security" means protecting information, equipment, devices, computer, computer resource, communication device and information stored therein from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction.

Issues of jurisdiction and sovereignty have quickly come to the fore in the era of the Internet. The Internet does not tend to make geographical and jurisdictional boundaries clear, but Internet users remain in physical jurisdictions and are subject to laws independent of their presence on the Internet. As such, a single transaction may involve the laws of at least three jurisdictions: 1) the laws of the state/nation in which the user resides, 2) the laws of the state/nation that apply where the server hosting the transaction is located, and 3) the laws of the state/nation which apply to the person or business with whom the transaction takes place. So a user in one of the states in USA conducting a transaction with another user in Australia through a server in Chennai could theoretically be subject to the laws of all three countries as they relate to the transaction at hand.

Jurisdiction is an aspect of state sovereignty and it refers to judicial, legislative and administrative competence. Although jurisdiction is an aspect of sovereignty, it is not coextensive with it. The laws of a nation may have extra-territorial impact extending the jurisdiction beyond the sovereign and territorial limits of that nation. This is particularly problematic as the medium of the Internet does not explicitly recognize sovereignty and territorial limitations. There is no uniform, international jurisdictional law of universal application

Cyberspace is constantly under assault. Cyber spies, thieves, saboteurs, and thrill seekers break into computer systems, steal personal data and trade secrets, vandalize Web sites, disrupt service, sabotage data and systems, launch computer viruses and worms, conduct fraudulent transactions, and harass individuals and companies.

The first recorded cyber crime took place in the year 1820. That is not surprising considering the fact that the abacus, which is thought to b the earliest form of a computer, has been around since 3500 B.C. in India, Japa and China. The era of modern computers, however, began with the analytica engine of Charles Babbage.

A simple yet sturdy definition of cyber crime would be unlawful acts wherein the computer is either a tool or a target or both. The term computer used in this definition does not only mean the conventional desktop or laptop computer. It includes Personal Digital Assistants (PDA), cell phones, sophisticated watches, cars and a host of gadgets. Recent global cyber crime incidents like the targeted denial of service attacks on Estonia have heightened fears. Intelligence agencies are preparing against coordinated cyber attacks that could disrupt rail and air traffic controls, electricity distribution networks, stock markets, banking and insurance systems etc. Unfortunately, it is not possible to calculate the true social and financial impact of cyber crime. This is because most crimes go unreported.