Cyber Security Issues - Part A

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Cyber Security Issues- Part A

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In existing period of time, the use and role of internet has become extended in the most
intensive manner. In the context of exchange of information, the significance of internet has
reached to an optimum level. On one hand, where internet has provided some intensive amount
of benefits to the human beings, on the other hand, some critical issues related with security and
cyber crime has also been emerged quite significantly. Due to misuse of internet, it has become
of the most critical threats for the international peace and security1 . The first and foremost
example of evilness of the internet can be revealed in the example of Wikileaks, which has
presented some critical to National Security. Wikileaks is one of the most talked website in
recent period of time, which engages in the activities of publishing and leaking some confidential
information publicly. The website came into limelight when it published some highly
confidential and sensitive information regarding national defense and security of the USA2 .
President Obama has also expressed his concern about the national security after the Wikileaks
issues. The founder of the website, Mr. Julian Assange has been alleged as one of the most
wanted criminals of the country. This issue of Wikileaks has made the debate more rigorous
regarding usefulness of internet in storing, disseminating and exchanging highly sensitive and
confidential information. Information leaked by Wikileaks was quite sensitive regarding the
sovereignty and political image of the country among the rest of the world. Moreover from the
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Keith Darrell. Issues in Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law (Amber Book
Company LLC, 2012).
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Oren Dorell and Jack Gillum. Pro-WikiLeaks cyberattacks show growing threat. (Dec 2012).
USA today < http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-12-09-1Awikileaks09_ST_N.htm>

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perspective of the strategic formulation also the leakage of confidential information can be
proved harmful for the government3 .
Although, internet has made the information technologies more advanced and useful for
human beings, yet people have started to misuse internet application for evil purposes. Hacking
of confidential and personal information of others, frauds, cyber crime related to e-commerce,
and misuse of information retrieved from internet are some of the critical issues related to
enhancement of internet usage among common people. These issues can be considered quite
harmful as it leads to harm the sustainability and security of a nation. Increasing rate of cyber
crime like frauds and hacking is the matter of concern for the government of the country. In
existing period of time, a large portion of internet users consists of young generation. Enticing
this generation by offering fake pleasure or advantages is quite easy. On the internet, where there
is virtual interaction between two people, tempting young and immature generation becomes
quite easy. Cyber criminals take advantage of this phenomena and cheat innocent people quite
easily. This is one of most critical issues associated with the use of internet4 .
Moreover in existing period of time, e-commerce has become quite popular among users
for undertaking different type of financial transactions. The use of internet has made the payment
of bills and other financial transactions quite easy and hassle free. However, along with increased
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Scott Ludlam. Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on internet filtering, Wikileaks and
cybersecurity. (May 2013) < http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/content/estimates/department-
prime-minister-and-cabinet-internet-filtering-wikileaks-and-cybersecuri >
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John D. Haynes. Internet Management Issues: A Global Perspective (Idea Group Inc (IGI),
2002).

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use of internet for financial transaction, the number of cyber crimes in terms of financial frauds
has also been increased significantly. Cyber criminals hack confidential and personal information
regarding bank accounts of the user and conduct financial frauds. Such frauds are commenced in
so professional manner that spotting of such crimes becomes quite hard for victim. In this way,
internet has made financial forgery and frauds so easy for professional criminal5 .
Along with criminals, internet is widely used by countries for spying activities of other countries.
In existing period of time, where internet has become prominent aspect of communication and
information sharing, the definition of spying and war has been changed. Nowadays cyber
security has emerged as one of the most prominent tasks for the government as now instead of
battle field, wars are taken place on internet. Internet is widely used by country to hack
confidential, sensitive and defense related information of the rival country. However, such type
of cyber spying is not right from ethical point of view and not in the alignment with legal
guidelines of international society. From the perspective of international peace and development,
this cyber spying can be proved quite dangerous6 .
5B. G. Kutais. Internet Policies and Issues. (Nova Publishers, 2002).

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NSA Speaks Out on WikiLeaks, Cybersecurity. (December 2010). Reuters <
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2010/12/17/nsa-speaks-wikileaks/>

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In addition to this, another evil from the internet can be judged in terms of social and
moral degradation of the society. Internet has become one of the major sources of pornography
and other objectionable materials. One can easily find such objectionable material on the
internet. Teenagers and children are the easy victims of such kind of objectionable material on
different websites. Although, governments of different countries have made some significant
efforts for reducing the number of availability of such objectionable material on the internet, yet
still it is not easy to keep internet free from this issue. From the perspective of social and moral
development of young generation this scenario is not favorable as it directly harms the
sustainability of the society as a whole7 .
Another misuse of Internet is done by terrorists for terrifying, and enticing people for
fulfilling their evil aims and purposes. Along with sneaking into the security system of a country,
terrorists uses internet for threatening mass people. Through internet they can easily broadcast
their views, speeches, warnings and videos across the world, which can be access quite easily by
common people. With the help of such type of actions terrorists can be proved successful in
preparing the environment of political anxiety, and tension at international level, which is one of
the major objectives of terrorism8 .
On the basis of discussion made in the paper, it can be observed that there are some of the
crucial aspects related to the usage of internet which can be misused by cyber criminal in
conducting various criminal activities. Although internet has enhanced connectivity among
7B. G. Kutais. Internet Policies and Issues. (Nova Publishers, 2002).

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Keith Darrell. Issues in Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law (Amber Book
Company LLC, 2012).

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people and exchange of information among them, yet information security can be regarded as
one of the critical issues associated with excessive usage of internet. Recent cases of leaking of
confidential information related with national security of the USA by Wikileaks can be
considered quite concerning regarding evil usage of internet.

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References:
Oren Dorell and Jack Gillum. Pro-WikiLeaks cyberattacks show growing threat. (Dec 2012).
USA today < http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-12-09-
1Awikileaks09_ST_N.htm>
Scott Ludlam. Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on internet filtering, Wikileaks and
cybersecurity. (May 2013) < http://scott-
ludlam.greensmps.org.au/content/estimates/department-prime-minister-and-cabinet-internet-
filtering-wikileaks-and-cybersecuri >
NSA Speaks Out on WikiLeaks, Cybersecurity. (December 2010). Reuters <
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2010/12/17/nsa-speaks-wikileaks/>
Keith Darrell. Issues in Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law (Amber Book Company
LLC, 2012).
B. G. Kutais. Internet Policies and Issues. (Nova Publishers, 2002).
John D. Haynes. Internet Management Issues: A Global Perspective (Idea Group Inc (IGI),
2002).

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