Cyber Geek

“Iran’s Military Response May Be Concluded, But Cyber Warfare Threat Grows” (Kanno-Youngs & Nicole Perlroth, Jan. 8, 2020) , “Threat of Cyberattack by Iran still critical, Experts say” (The Wall Street Journal , Jan. 9, 2020) , these latest news headlines may conclude the major threat that 21 st century modern countries have to faced. “Cyber Security is the newest and most unique national security issue of the 21st century” (Malawer, November 18, 2010) .   Debate over Cyber Warfare is now affected to all over countries. As a developing nation, Sri Lanka is also vulnerable to this rising technological war to some extent. In this article, I addressed the existing Sri Lankan laws ( Intellectual Property Act (No.36 of 2003), Electronic Transaction Act (No.19 of 2006), Computer Crime Act (No.24 of 2007), Cyber Security Bill ) regarding Cyber Warfare and analyzed the loop holes and vulnerabilities of current security strategies.   I concluded the article by proposing r...

Basically, Cyber-Crimes Laws can be defined as the laws which are related to Information Crimes, Technology Crimes, Internet Crimes, Computer Crimes and Technology and Communication Crimes.   Over the past few decades, the drastic improvement of internet and computers have influenced the world of men in both positive and negative ways. The origin of internet dates back to 1960s, with the purpose of designing networks to share information efficiently. However, with time this advancement has paved ways to commit new types of crimes from online identity theft to viruses. There are many definitions as to “what is a cyber-crime?” One definition is that “Cyber-crime refers to any illegal activity that occurs in the virtual world of cyberspace”. (Henson, Reyns, & Fisher, 2011). According to Gordon and Ford Cyber-crime is “any crime that is facilitated or committed using a computer, network, or hardware device” (Gordon & Ford, 2006).The European commission has divided cyber...