THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

After the preliminary data gathering and the problem statement the
next step is to examine the critical variables and developing a
Theoretical Framework. The critical variable in our study are

DEPENDENT VARIABLE:
. Cyber Crime

INDEPENDENT VARIABLES:
1. Greed
2. Power
3. Publicity
4. Revenge
5. Adventure
6. Desire to access forbidden information
7. Destructive mindset

DESCRIPTION OF INDEPENDENT
VARIABLES:
1. Greed: Research found that most of the cyber criminals commit
cyber crimes because of one basic motive that is greed. The
classical examples can be misuse of the credit card numbers on
online shopping on purchasing the domains, payment of
purchasing codes etc
 2. Power: Some of the cases revealed that power was the motive
behind the scene. As individuals feel proud by hacking ones
account, they literally feel a sense of power. By hacking ones
account password or by hacking ones email account password you
hold the power.
3. Publicity: Government websites are the hot targets of the
hackers due to the press coverage it receives Hackers enjoy media
coverage. As practically the Indian hackers did with the Pakistan
official websites, the basic motive of doing all that was publicity.
4. Revenge: In most of the cyber crimes, revenge as the cause of
cyber crimes has been observed. History of cyber crimes talk
about a case in which best describes this, a teacher threaten no of
student of not getting pass into his subject then to take revenge
from the teacher they hacked the main PC of the campus and
leagued out his paper.
5. Adventure: Just for the sake of the adventure, cyber criminal
also hack certain unrestricted area just for the sake of fun or thrill.
6. Desire to access forbidden information: This also
has been one of the reason that most of the people have curiosity
of getting all the information available in the black box So this
desire of getting the forbidden information compels them to
commit illegal acts such as cyber crimes.
7. Destructive mindset: Few of the hackers also commit
cyber crime because of the destructive mindset they always look
at the darker side of the image and try to polish that image. And
this type of practice gets them forget to even remember that this
is a crime.
MODERATING VARIABLES:
1. Security services
 2. Awareness

DESCRIPTION OF MODERATING
VARIABLES:
1. Want to sell security services: Some of the software
companies sale there security system to competitive agencies to
combat against cyber attack and further this have become a
contract business for them.
 Awareness: Most of the hot mail and yahoo accounts have
been observed that these are hacked by the friends by guessing
the secret question or by guessing the passwords as their
telephone numbers or from their key words in their lives. So this
all reports that this can get them in to trouble.