What is Cyber Pornography ?
Cyber pornography can be defined as pornographic material designed, published or distributed using cyber space as a medium.
In India, viewing digital pornography is not a crime, but creating and distributing such material is. It is legal in most other countries.
However, child pornography is illegal in all forms and has been banned universally.
What are the threats ?
In order to increase traffic, some websites resort to publishing free pornographic material. In addition, fraudsters have set up many malicious websites, whose sole purpose is to infect machines, which attract and lure people with offers like free celebrity pornography. Most of the material available for free download acts as a carrier of malware.
Although viewing porn online is legal, it can also become an addiction due to the vast amount of free available material on the internet.
What are the risks ?
Malware can steal crucial information from a system or a network
Malware can damage systems leading to network failures
Can be used for cyber defacement, defamation attacks leading to reputation loss
Addiction to internet porn can ruin your social relationship in real life and cause embarrassment in work life.
