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In this article we will look at what is cyberstalking and types of cyber stalkers like online stalkers and offline stalkers.

 

What is Cyber Stalking?

Cyber stalking is an act of harassing an individual, a group or an organization using information and communication technology (Internet). The behavior may include false accusations, monitoring, transmission of threats, ID theft, damage to data or equipment, gathering information without consent etc.

 


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Types of Cyber Stalkers

There are two types of stalkers:

  • Online stalkers (stalker interacts with victim)
  • Offline stalkers (stalker just monitors the victim and doesn’t interact)

 

 

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Suryateja Pericherla

Suryateja Pericherla, at present is a Research Scholar (full-time Ph.D.) in the Dept. of Computer Science & Systems Engineering at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. Previously worked as an Associate Professor in the Dept. of CSE at Vishnu Institute of Technology, India.

He has 11+ years of teaching experience and is an individual researcher whose research interests are Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Computer Security, Network Security and Blockchain.

He is a member of professional societies like IEEE, ACM, CSI and ISCA. He published several research papers which are indexed by SCIE, WoS, Scopus, Springer and others.

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