Cybercrime against a property refers to the crime that entails stealing someone's intellectual property using a computer and the Internet.
Intellectual property rights refer to the rights granted to the creators or owners over the creations of their minds. It has moral as well as economical value and is granted for a limited period of time. The motive behind it is to protect intellectual creation from unauthorized copying and piracy. Intellectual property includes names, images, logos, inventions, music, literary work, designs.
It is a right granted by law to protect the rights of literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and original works.
For example: Novels, plays, movies, poetry, songs, paintings, software, advertisements, etc.
Legal actions can be taken against whoever tries to copy the work without the permission of
the author or the organization. The time period of copyright protection lasts for more than 70
years, even after the death of its owner.
Trademark is a type of intellectual property right that consists of a sign, word, phrase, or logo that distinguishes a product/company/source from another. It protects logos, brand names, and slogans. If it is being used in commerce then it doesn't expire after a set term of years.
It refers to an exclusive legal right over an invention. It enforces people not to sell or manufacture other's inventions for a limited period of years. Its time period in India is of 20years.
It is an intellectual property right that distinguishes a design from another on the basis of its visual design that is its shape, color, and size. It prevents a protected design from being copied.
Trade secret is a piece of confidential information or formulae used by an enterprise to gain an economic or competitive advantage. Disclosing the trade secret of an enterprise is considered illegal because it can negatively affect the business of that enterprise. It includes sale methods, consumers list, manufacturing processes, and so on.
It is a cybercrime that involves stealing someone else's identity like stealing date of birth, name, debit/credit card details, bank details, etc. to gain a financial advantage or some other benefits.
A person's identity can be used to commit crimes against organizations and nations.
Phishing is attempted to trick innocent people to obtain their sensitive information. Generally, the attacker acts as a trustworthy entity to trap the victim. The motive of the attacker is to cause financial damage to the victim and sometimes they even block access to the email account.
It is not difficult to prevent phishing it can be avoided by following the given precautions.
The act of stealing someone else's intellectual property is known as plagiarism. Nowadays, it has become very easy for a person to copy someone else's work from the internet and presenting it as their own by using the copy/paste options available nowadays.
It is a cybercrime in which an attacker redirects the user to a malicious website. The motive is to gain the sensitive information of the victim. To avoid this type of attack always check the URL of a website if it begins with HTTPS then that means that website is secure and you can enter your login credentials.
Software piracy refers to the unauthorized use, duplication, and distribution of licensed software. It is done by distributing or using the licensed copy into multiple computer systems loaded in the form of a CD/DVD or link. It is illegal and can be punishable.
It cannot be completely stopped, however it can be prevented by following some cyber ethics.