Tuesday 29 January 2013

Cyber Crimes in Pakistan



Cyber crime is the one of the biggest threats all over the world. Almost all countries, including 3rd world countries like in african or south asian countries, are combating these threats with extreme legal measures. They have completed their legislation and now there are laws to tackle cyber criminals. Unfortunately

Pakistan is one of the few countries where cyber crime laws are still in the pipeline waiting for approval and implementation. It is certainly not as if we don’t face that many cyber crimes in Pakistan; In fact, we are lacking interst of Governement and concerned authorities towards this serious issue.

Pakistan is currently facing the following types of Cyber Crimes:


  1. Financial crimes
  2. Cyber Pornography
  3. Sale of illegal articles
  4. Online gambling
  5. Intellectual property crimes
  6. Email spoofing
  7. Cyber stalking / Cyber Bullying / Cyber Defamation
  8. Forgery
  9. Unauthorised access to computer systems\networks
  10. Theft of information contained in electronic form
  11. Virus/worm attacks
  12. Logic bombs
  13. Trojan attacks
  14. Internet time theft
  15. Password cracking
  16. Buffer overflow


Study shows, following types of people found involved in most cases of Cyber Crimes

  • Disgruntled employees
  • Teenagers.Teenagers
  • PoliticalPoliticalHacktivistHacktivist
  • Professional Hackers
  • Business Rival
  • Ex-Boy Friend
  • Divorced Husband. etc
Government or Concerned agencies should play active role to bring Cyber Crime Laws to national assembly of Pakistan and pass the Cyber Crimes bill as early as possible, and start its implementation before any further huge losses to country's name or economy.

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