Cyberspace and Cyber Law

Cyber Law is the law governing computers and the Internet (Law,2010). These sets of rules will help users and government to prevent and decrease the number of cyber crimes from happening in cyberspace. In this modern world, internet or cyberspace have become one of most important means of communication. Internet have been widely used in every aspect of our life from socializing to business.

Today, people can easily communicate and socialize with other people using social portal. Currently, Facebook the most popular social portal in the cyberspace. Twitter also beginning to gain popularity among users as an alternative to Facebook. People can get connected easily to they friends or even finding new friends using this portal. This will make easier for us to socialize with our friends without having to meet them.

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From business point of view, internet can be use as a tool to become more competitive than their rivals. This is called E-commerce. It can be defined as buying and selling of products and services by businesses and consumers through an electronic medium, without using any paper documents (WebFinance, Inc, 2013).

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E-commerce will definitely boost up their business sales. This is because user can easily access they store to buy things without going there. Users only have to make a profile account and select items that they wanted. Items will be delivered to their house. Users only have to pay using e-payments system such as credit card or PayPal to the store.

There are few people that also use Facebook to do fraud and scams. They will make a fake profile and try to trick their victims to get easy money. Some people also use Facebook to do false accusation on other people. It is very crucial because it can immediately spread and the victim reputations can be destroyed in split second. Hackers also can use other people profile to spread lies or even invade their privacy. In online store, hackers usually go for customers information and their credit cards. Customers information can be used as a fake identification. Credit cards details also can be used to buy things without the owners consent. These cases are making users thrust of cyberspace safety decreasing.

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Therefore, government have enforce a law regarding cyberspace to unsure their safety and it's called Cyber Law. These cyber crimes include false accusation, hacking, credit card fraud, pornography, virus attack and many more. We can see today, there are many countries are enforcing this law to overcome and preventing cyber crimes. Everyday the government must do a research to amend the law coherent with current technologies capabilities to avoid anything that can threaten the cyberspace. Government also had established CyberSecurity which is an agency under Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) to help preventing cyber crimes in Malaysia. 



References:-

Law, C., 2010. What Is Cyber Law & Cyber Space ?. [Online]
Available at: http://lawincyber.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/2/
[Accessed 2 August 2010].

WebFinance, Inc, 2013. E-commerce. [Online]
Available at: http://www.investorwords.com/1637/e_commerce.html
[Accessed 2013].