The Characteristics Issues, the challenges, The Process of Investigation & Detection of Crime, Collection of Evidence from the Scene of Crime, Handling of Digital Evidence, Preserving the Digital Evidence, Examination of Digital evidence. The Cyber Laws: Need to Regulate the Internet, Country Specific Cyber Laws, The Indian Information Technology Act-2000, Salient Features of IT Act 2000, Legal Recognition of Legal Records, Legal Recognition of Digital Signatures, and Measures to Adapt Electronic governance, Computer Virus, Inadequacies in the IT Act 2000. National & International Coordination to handle Cyber Crimes: Need for International Co-ordination, The Present Structure to handle Computer Crimes, The Proposed Global Approach to Handle Computer crimes.