AN ANALYTICAL STUDY ON THE AWARENESS OF PARENTS ABOUT CYBERCRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN

Abstract

The internet in India is growing rapidly. It has given rise to new opportunity in every field like entertainment, business, sports, education etc. The internet has both advantage and disadvantage and one of the most disadvantage is cybercrime. We can say, cybercrime is any illegal activity, which is committed using a computer network especially the internet. At least one cybercrime was reported every 10 minutes in India in the first six months of 2017. That is higher than a crime every 12 minutes in 2016. According to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In). In India educated person commits most of cybercrime cases. Therefore, it is required the deep knowledge and awareness about the cybercrime. In addition, in India most of the cases found where crimes are committed due to lack of knowledge or by ignorance.