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Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Presentation by : Aman Sharma

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Cyber Crime is a term used to broadly describe criminalactivity in which computers or computer networks are atool, a target, or a place of criminal activity and includeeverything from electronic cracking to denial of serviceattacks. It also include traditional crimes in whichcomputers or networks are used to enable the illicitactivity.

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We can categorize cyber crime in two ways:

The computer as a target :- using a computer to

attacks other computer, e.g. Hacking, virus/worms

attacks etc.

The computer as a weapon :- using a computer to

commit real world crime e.g. cyber terrorism, credit

card fraud and pornography etc.

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TYPES OF

CYBER CRIME

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Hacking Hacking is not defined in the amended IT Act, 2000.

Hacking means unauthorized attempts to bypass the

security mechanisms of an information system or

network.

In simple words Hacking is the unauthorized access to a

computer system, programs, data and network resources.

Government websites are the hot target of the hackers.

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Data Theft(According to IT Act, 2008, crime of data theft u/s 43 (b))

If any person without permission of the owner or any other

person, who is in charge of a computer, computer system of

computer network - downloads, copies or extracts any data,

computer data base or information from such computer,

computer system or computer network including information

or data held or stored in any removable storage medium, then

it is data theft.

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Trojan attacks

Malicious software that attaches itself to other software and act like something useful for the system but do the things that are quiet damping. For eg. VIRUS , WORMS, TROJAN HORSE

In most of the cases, viruses can do any amount of damage, the creator intends them to do. They can send your data to a third party and even delete your data from your computer.

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CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

The Internet is being highly used by its abusers to reach and abuse children sexually, worldwide.

Pornography is describing or showing sexual acts in order to cause sexual excitement through books, films, pornography websites etc.

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Computer Vandalism

Damaging or destroying data rather than stealing or

misusing them is called cyber vandalism. These are

program that attach themselves to a file and then

circulate.

E-mail spamming

Sending email to thousand and thousand of user- similar

to a chain letter.

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Cyber Stalking

Cyber Stalking is use of the Internet or other electronic

means to stalk someone. Stalking generally involves

harassing or threatening behaviour that an individual

engages repeatedly.

E-mail bombing

Characterised by abusers repeatedly sending an

identical email message to a particular address.

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Sale of illegal article

This would include trade of narcotics, weapons etc.,

by posting websites, auction websites, bulletin boards

by using email communication.

Online gambling

Also known as i-gambling or internet gambling.

Generally gambling offered through internet is

termed as online gambling.

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Cyber terrorism

The intentional use of computer, networks and, public

internet to cause destruction and harm for personal

objectives. Objectives may be political , religious or

ideological.

Software Piracy

Theft of software through the illegal copying of

genuine programs or the counterfeiting and distribution

of products intended to pass for the original.

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Phishing is just one of the many frauds on the Internet, trying

to fool people into parting with their money. Phishing refers to

the receipt of unsolicited emails by customers of Financial

Institutions, requesting them to enter their Username,

Password or other personal information to access their

Account for some reason.

The fraudster then has access to the customer's online bank

account and to the funds contained in that account.

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Cyber Crimes threatens National Security and rising level of cyber crime is an indication of enormous threat to national security. Fan clubs of Underworld Dons like Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel and other wanted underworld dons are also doing the rounds on orkut. There is huge potential for damage to national security through cyber attacks. The internet is a means for money bounding and funding terrorist attacks in an organized manner.

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Under Section (2) (b) of IT Act, 2008,”cyber security means protecting information, equipment, devices computer, computer resource, communication device and information stored therein from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction.”

In India, The IT Act, 2000 as amended by The IT (Amendment) Act, 2008 is known as the Cyber law

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Antivirus And Anti Spyware Software: Antivirus software consists of computer programs that

attempt to identify, thwart and eliminate computer viruses and other malicious software. Anti spy wares are used to restrict backdoor program, Trojans and other spy wares to be installed on the computer.

Firewalls: A firewall protects a computer network from

unauthorized access. Network firewalls may be hardware devices, software programs, or a combination of the two. A network firewall typically guards an internal computer network against malicious access from outside the network.

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Cyber Security : Cyber Security involves protection of

sensitive personal and business information through

prevention, detection and response to different online

attacks. Cyber security actually preventing the attacks,

cyber security.

Privacy Policy : Before submitting your name , e-mail ,

address, on a website look for the site’s privacy policy.

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Cryptography: Cryptography is the science of encrypting and

decrypting information. Encryption is like sending a postal

mail to another party with a lock code on the envelope which

is known only to the sender and the recipient.

Cyber Ethics and Laws: Cyber ethics and cyber laws are also

being formulated to stop cyber crimes. It is a responsibility of

every individual to follow cyber ethics and cyber laws so that

the increasing cyber crimes shall reduce. Security Software

like Anti Viruses and Anti Spy Wares should be installed on all

computers, in order to remain secure from Cyber Crimes.

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Cyber crime can involve criminal activities that are

traditional in nature, such as theft, fraud, deformation

and mischief, all of which were subjected to the India

Penal code. In simple way we can say that cyber crime

is unlawful acts where in the computer is either a tool

or both.

The abuse of computer has also given birth of new age

crime that are addressed by the Information Technology

Act, 2000.

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“If any person, dishonestly, or fraudulently,

Destroys, Deletes or Alters any Information residing in a computer

resource or diminishes its value or utility or affects it injuriously by

any means;

Steals, conceals, destroys or alters or causes any person to steal,

conceal, destroy or alter any computer source code used for a

computer resource with an intention to cause damage;

he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may

extend to two to three years or with fine which may extend to five lakh

rupees or with both.”

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Cybercrime is indeed getting the recognition it deserves.

However, it is not going to restricted that easily . In fact ,

it is highly likely that cyber crime and its hackers will

continue developing and upgrading to stay ahead of the

law. So, to make us safer we must need cyber security.

Indian Laws are well drafted and are capable of handling

all kinds of challenges as posed by cyber criminals.

However, the enforcement agencies are required to be

well versed with the changing technologies and Laws.”

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THANK YOU!!!