Cyber crime against women: 

Types 

There have been numerous technological advancements over the last decade. These days we have come across number of crimes against women. Cyber Crimes against Women in India reveals loopholes in the present laws and policies of the Indian judicial system. Recent researches reveal that over the years the cyber crimes have increased by nearly 63.7 per cent.

Types of cyber crime that are committed against women:

Harassment via e-mails: Harassment through e-mails is not a new concept. It is very similar to harassing through letters. Harassment includes blackmailing, threatening, bullying, and even cheating via email. E-harassments are similar to the letter harassment but creates problem quite often when posted from fake ids.
Cyber-stalking: Cyber stalking is one of the most talked about net crimes in the modern world. The Oxford dictionary defines stalking as “pursuing stealthily”. Cyber stalking   involves following a person’s movements across the Internet by posting messages (sometimes threatening) on the bulletin boards frequented by the victim, entering the chat-rooms frequented by the victim, constantly bombarding the victim with emails etc. Cyber Stalking usually occurs with women, who are stalked by men, or children who are stalked by adult predators or paedophiles.
Cyber pornography: Cyber pornography is the other threat to the female netizens. This would include pornographic websites; pornographic magazines produced using computers (to publish and print the material) and the Internet (to download and transmit pornographic pictures, photos, writings etc).


Defamation:  Cyber tort including libel and defamation is another common crime against women in the net. This occurs when defamation takes place with the help of computers and / or the Internet.
Morphing: Morphing is editing the original picture by unauthorised user or fake identity. It was identified that female’s pictures are downloaded by fake users and again re-posted/uploaded on different websites by creating fake profiles after editing it.
Email spoofing:  A spoofed e-mail may be said to be one, which misrepresents its origin. It shows its origin to be different from which actually it originates.
Amongst the various cyber-crimes committed against individuals and society at large the crimes mentioned above are specially targeting women.
Cyber World is a dark street  wherin lots of people are suffering from different attacks but many are unaware of the fact that these kinds of attacks are going on. Red Team has met and witnessed lot of victims where they don’t know how to prevent and punish those culprit. The main loophole that’s exploited by the attackers is the lack of awareness.
Malware attacks
Cyber Stalking
Cyber Bullying
These are the different kinds of attacks which are dangerously increasing these days.Amidst all the security challenges and questions in front of us, stopping cybercrime is a priority.