How cyber crime can be prevented?

We shouldn't send any photograph online particularly to strangers and chat friends as there have been incidents of misuse of the photographs. Also, we shouldn't send our credit card number to any site that is not secured in order to guard against frauds. We should always keep an eye on the sites that our children are accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or deprivation in them.

The Victim should not sit idle at home waiting for somebody to do all spoonfeeding.  He/She should come forward and report the matter to police. 

If a matter is not reported to police, it gives encouragement for committing more severe cyber crimes so before one is able to cause havoc just stop by lodging complaint. 

Lodging of complaint is the first step in seeking justice and must be moved by the victim himself/herself.

We should always use latest and up date anti virus software to guard against virus attacks and should keep back up volumes not to suffer data loss in case of virus contamination. It is better to use a security programme that gives control over the cookies and send information back to the site as leaving the cookies unguarded might prove fatal.

Also, Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site. Putting host-based intrusion detection devices on servers may do this. Use of firewalls may be beneficial. Web servers running public sites must be physically separate protected from internal corporate network.

There are some ways to safeguard ourself from Hackers.

1) Don't leave the telecommunications cable (broadband modem, phone line) physically connected to your home computer when the internet is not in use. The only 100% safe computer is the one that is not connected to the internet.
2) Protect, watch, and supervise your children online just as you do with all their everyday activities. Do not assume that your children are safe because they are in your home using a computer.
3) Never open an attachment from an unfamiliar sender and scan suspicious attachments with a trusted virus scanner before opening.
4) Use firewalls, anti-virus, and spyware detection software on a regular basis. Be sure to download and install from the software manufacturer's website all available security patches and updates for all installed programs on your computer on a regular basis.
5) Protect your personal information and identity. Your life and the quality of your life depend on criminals not impersonating you to gain credit, money, a reputation, or committing a crime in your name.

Apart from this change your passwords regulars applies to all sites.

We have a very solid IT Act, 2000. Where the offenders will be punished. The same act is also very comprehensive, but at the end of the day the implementation is still not there. But there is a silver lining in the cloud where the Cyber Court has been set up in Delhi.

Most of the comments here have been in the space of end-user involvement and action and are good. Nonetheless, the environment in which cyber crimes take place needs to be tightened.

There needs to be a good infrastructure to enforce the IT security laws enacted by the Parliament. There is need to have specialized cells under the Police(like the one in Mumbai and other cities) in all the tier-1 and tier-2 cities and strengthen them.

The law enforcers should come down heavily on cyber-crime perpetrators and only then will there be a general fear in the minds of cyber criminals (atleast those living in the country.)

Hacking, impersonation over the internet on social networking sites etc., is predominant theses days. Committees need to be formed to seek the inclusion of provision under the IT Act thereby widening the scope of the Act to include crimes which have major impact on individuals rights and privacy. Provisions laying the procedure for the implementation of these provisions is necessary to see successful results.

All IT transactions and communication should be through a corridor under state vigilance, controlled by central govt.. IT enforcement law should be strictly followed and separate court benches should be opened in every state. Penalization of crimes should be strong and judgement should be as early as possible. The judgment should reach the community through media with emphasis. When all the users community are aware of strict law, crime can be reduced.               

cyber crime is abolishing our society so profoundly.today there is a firm need to uproot this evil.i think that

organisations should put passwords and make file hidden.rather than these cyber laws should develop such kind of software which inhibit their display in user's profile.These laws should be effectively implemented

Cyber crimes are often done by "face-kess People" generally called as Fraudstars, Hackers, Imposters etc. It is better that we remain vigilant and take all safegurds before becoming a victim.

We are to make people ( specially the children ) aware about cyber crimes, their modus oparandi, country famous for such crimes, how softwares and hardwares are to be used to safeguard. International bodies have been created for this purpose.

Finally, where possible, we may take the help of Cyber Crime Laws of our country to book the culprits.

By executing tracking system one may be able to control it as full control is not possible