Emerging cyber threats in Bangladesh : in quest of effective legal remedies

Abstract

With the advent of technology human beings are becoming exclusively dependant on automation and we can see its influence on all spheres of our life. The history of automation began when Babbage invented computer and especially a new horizon was opened before us with the invention of network particularly the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW). Internet has become the backbone of all kinds of communication systems and it is also one of the most important sources of knowledge in the present digitalized world.

It is a network of networks 1 that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other technologies. The World Wide Web is a huge set of interlinked documents, images and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs.

The internet allows computer users to connect to other computers and to store information easily across the world. They may offer to do this with or without the use of security, authentication and encryption technologies, depending on the requirements. This free access to network creates previllages to some highly skilled criminals to do illegal deeds in the cyber world. The most common evil doings are crashing a computer system, theft of information contained in electronic form; e-mail bombing, data diddling, financial fraud like unlawful transfer of money by breaking the security code of credit cards, denial of services and virus attack. But the prevention and remedy for these offences through the structural and legal framework are inadequate in our country.