An Empirical Study of Cybercrime and Its Preventions

In this modern era of technology, the world is heavily dependent on technology no matter where one goes. Due to our heavy dependency on technology criminals have taken this advantage for their benefit. Cybercrime is quickly becoming one of the fastest rising forms of modern crimes. Cybercrime are well known for the downfall of so many companies, organizations and personal identities. The main intent of this paper is to define cybercrime, various types of cybercriminals and cybercrime affecting the world and its prevention. This paper will also analyse statistical data on various types of cybercrime and its growth in last few years.