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An Overview of Cybercrime, its Precautions and the Preventions

Noman Akhter & Asad Iqbal Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science & Technology, Pakistan nomanakhter2020@gmail.com, asadiqbal89@yahoo.com Abstract Network security has been a significant for many years. Computer is now becoming as a new crime tool. The growing threat from crimes committed against computers, or against information on computers, is getting the attention of various nations. The excellent role of computer intimated criminals and terrorists to make it their preferred tool for attacking their targets. The internet has provided a virtual battleground for countries having problems with each other such as Israel against Palestine, Taiwan against China, India against Pakistan, China against the US, and many other countries. This makeable change in the methods of terrorism from traditional methods to electronic methods is becoming one of the biggest challenges to modern societies. The main classes of cyber crime include data diddling, theft of inform