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Change is inevitable and the disadvantages that advancement in technology poses cannot be avoided. The fact is that the criminals have changed their methods and have started relying on the information technology, and in order to deal with them the society, the legislative, and the judiciary, the private corporations and public organizations will also have to change their defences to combat cyber terrorism and warfare. Further cyber and techno-experts must not only be assiduous in the field of cyber space and information technology, but must also be provided with necessary technical hardwares and softwares so that they can efficiently fight the cyber criminals. Hence, appropriate facilities must be established in different parts of the country so that crime in the virtual world can be controlled. Another aspect which needs to be brought into limelight is that a culture of continuous cyber education and learning needs to be inculcated amongst the law adjudicating and law enforcing authorities, because the sphere of information technology is quite dynamic as the knowledge of present day becomes obsolete in a very short time. Lastly, the preamble of the Information Technology Act, 2000 states that the Act was passed with the objective to give legal recognition for transactions carried out by means of electronic data exchange and other means of e-commerce, further the Act strived to make amendments to the Indian Penal Code 1860, Indian Evidence Act 1872, The Bankers Books of Evidence Act 1891, and the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 for enhancing legal recognition and regulation of the commercial activities. Though the objective of the Act is not to diminish criminal activity, but this Act has defined certain offences and penalties to overpower such omissions, which is understood to come within the circumference of cyber-crimes. From this, it can be concluded that the laws cannot afford to be static, they have to be changed with the changing times and viz. cyber space. This is all the more required, that many applications of the technology can be used for the advantage of the mankind, similarly it is equally true that such applications can also be used for the disadvantage of the mankind as has been demonstrated by the Spy-cam case. The moral here is that the law should be made dynamic so that it can easily adjust to the needs of the times and with the technological developments.