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PROJECT ON
CYBER CRIMEPresented By:-
As a part of internal assignment in the subject ofFoundation Course-II for
the academic year 2007-08 under the guidance of
Prof. K. PRABHA.
GURUKUL COLLEGE OF COMMERCE
Managed By: - Mumbai Pradesh Arya Vidya Sabha,
Tilak road, Ghatkopar (E),
Mumbai - 400077.
CERTIFICATE
Sr. No. Name Class Seat No. Sign.
1) RANJIT VISHWAKARMA. S.Y.B.Com./C .
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This is to Certify that the project entitled ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION (as a part of internal assignment) has been successfully
undertaken by:-
In the subject ofFoundation Course-II under the guidance of
Professor:-K. Prabha.
GURUKUL COLLEGE OF COMMERCE
Conducted by: Mumbai Pradesh Arya Vidya SabhaTilak Road, Ghatkopar (East),
Mumbai 400 077.Tel.: 2509 1688.
Professor- In charge
(Prof. K Prabha.)
Sr. No. Name Class Seat No. Sign.
1) RANJIT VISHWAKARMA. S.Y.B.Com./C .
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
It gives us pleasure to present this project of F.C.-II. Our group of
eight students thank the college authorities for suggesting the project
which means Trustees, principles, teachers, staff etc. We thank the
University of Mumbai for giving this opportunities to make the project
based on current affairs.
We heartfully thank the Gurukul College of Commerce, library for
providing for some books and old articles which are related to our
topic.
We specially thank Miss Bimla D. Thakur, Rajesh Singh and Dr. Uresh
Mehta for suggesting us about this topic and providing some
information and guiding us. And We also thank for making this project.
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METHODOLOGY
We used the questionnaire method. We also used the case study
because it is a simple method and from this method we can get public
opinions, ideas and thinking about the topic.
From the case study we can know the percentage of the people
to have this habit of Cyber Crime and who withdraw and try to
withdraw.
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INDEX
SR. NO. TOPIC PG. NO.
1) What Is Cyber Crime?
2) Reasons for Cyber Crime.
3) Overview.
4) Who are Cyber Criminals?
5) Mode & Manner of Committing Cyber crime.
6) Classification of Cyber Crime.
7) Advantages of IT Act 2000.
8) Need of Cyber Law Awareness in India.
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CYBER CRIME
INTRODUCTION OF CYBER
CRIME
The term cyber crime is a misnomer. This term has nowhere been defined
in any statute /Act passed or enacted by the Indian Parliament. The concept
of cyber crime is not radically different from the concept of conventional
crime. Both include conduct whether act or omission, which cause breach of
rules of law and counterbalanced by the sanction of the state.
CONVENTIONAL CRIME:-
Crime is a social and economic phenomenon and is as old as the human
society. Crime is a legal concept and has the sanction of the law. Crime or
an offence is a legal wrong that can be followed by criminal proceedings
which may result into punishment. The hallmark of criminality is that, it is
breach of the criminal law.
A crime may be said to be any conduct accompanied by act or omission
prohibited by law and consequential breach of which is visited by penal
consequences.
CYBER CRIME:-
Cyber crime is the latest and perhaps the most complicated problem in the
cyber world. Cyber crime may be said to be those species, of which, genus
is the conventional crime, and where either the computer is an object or
subject of the conduct constituting crime. Any criminal activity that uses a
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computer either as an instrumentality, target or a means for perpetuating
further crimes comes within the ambit of cyber crime.
A generalized definition of cyber crime may be unlawful acts wherein the
computer is either a tool or target or both. The computer may be used as a
tool in the following kinds of activity- financial crimes, sale of illegal articles,
pornography, online gambling,
intellectual property crime, e-mail spoofing, forgery, cyber defamation,
cyber stalking, etc. The computer may however be target for unlawful acts
in the following cases- unauthorized access to computer/ computer system/
computer networks, theft of information contained in the electronic form, e-
mail bombing, data didling, salami attacks, logic bombs, Trojan attacks,
internet time thefts, web jacking, theft of computer system and physically
damaging the computer system.
DISTINCTION BETWEEN CONVENTIONAL AND CYBER
CRIME:-
There is apparently no distinction between cyber and conventional crime.
However on a deep introspection we may say that there exists a fine
line of demarcation between the conventional and cyber crime, which
is appreciable. The demarcation lies in the involvement of the mediumin cases of cyber crime. The sine qua non for cyber crime is that there
should be an involvement, at any stage, of the virtual cyber medium.
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REASON FOR CYBERCRIME
Hart in his work The Concept of Law has said human beings are
vulnerable so rule of law is required to protect them. Applying this to the
cyberspace we may say that computers are vulnerable so rule of law is
required to protect and safeguard them against cyber crime. The reasons for
the vulnerability of computers may be said to be:
Capacity to store data in comparatively small space:-
The computer has unique characteristic of storing data in a very small
space. This affords to remove or derive information either through
physical or virtual medium makes it much more easier.
Easy to access:-
The problem encountered in guarding a computer system from
unauthorised access is that there is every possibility of breach not due to
human error but due to the complex technology. By secretly implanted
logic bomb, key loggers that can steal access codes, advanced voice
recorders; retina imagers etc. that can fool biometric systems and bypass
firewalls can be utilized to get past many a security system.
Complex:-
The computers work on operating systems and these operating systems
in turn are composed of millions of codes. Human mind is fallible and it is
not possible that there might not be a lapse at any stage. The cyber
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criminals take advantage of these lacunas and penetrate into the
computer system.
Negligence is very closely connected with human conduct. It is therefore
very probable that while protecting the computer system there might be
any negligence, which in turn provides a cyber criminal to gain access
and control over the computer system.
Loss of evidence:-
Loss of evidence is a very common & obvious problem as all the data are
routinely destroyed. Further collection of data outside the territorial
extent also paralyses this system of crime investigation.
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OVERVIEW:-
An international legal definition of cyber crime that is used by most of the
countries in Europe and North America as well as South Africa and Japan was
agreed to in the Convention on Cyber crime, and entered into force on 1 July
2004.
Although the term cyber crime is usually restricted to describing criminal
activity in which the computer or network is an essential part of the crime,
this term is also used to include traditional crimes in which computers or
networks are used to enable the illicit activity.
Examples of cyber crime which the computer or network is a tool of the
criminal activity include spamming and copyright crimes, particularly those
facilitated through peer-to-peer networks.
Examples of cyber crime in which the computer or network is a target of
criminal activity include unauthorized access (i.e. defeating access controls),
malicious code, and denial-of-service attacks.
Examples of cyber crime in which the computer or network is a place of
criminal activity include theft of service (in particular, telecom fraud) and
certain financial frauds.
Finally, examples of traditional crimes facilitated through the use of
computers or networks include Nigerian 419 or other gullibility or social
engineering frauds (e.g., hacking "phishing", identity theft, child
pornography, online gambling, securities fraud, etc.). Cyber stalking is an
example of a traditional crime -- harassment -- that has taken a new form
when facilitated through computer networks.
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Additionally, certain other information crimes, including trade secret theft
and industrial or economic espionage, are sometimes considered cyber
crimes when computers or networks are involved.
Cyber crime in the context of national security may involve hacktivism
(online activity intended to influence policy), traditional espionage, or
information warfare and related activities.
One of the recent researches showed that a new cybercrime is being
registered every 10 seconds in Britain. During 2006 the computer crooks
were able to strike 3.24 million times. Some crimes performed on-line even
surpassed their equivalents in real world. In addition, experts believe that
about 90% of cybercrimes stay unreported.
According to a study performed by Shirley McGuire, a specialist in
psychology of the University of San Francisco, the majority of teenagers who
hack and invade computer systems are doing it for fun rather than with the
aim of causing harm. Shirley McGuire mentioned that quite often parents
cannot understand the motivation of the teenage hackers. She performed
an anonymous experiment, questioning more than 4,800 students in the
area ofSan Diego. Her results were presented at the American Psychological
Association conference:
o 38% of teenagers were involved in software piracy;
o 18% of all teens confessed of entering and using the information
stored on other personal computers or websites;
o 13% of all the participants mentioned they performed changes in
computer systems or computer files.
o The study revealed that only 1 out of 10 hackers were interested in
causing certain harm or earning money. Most teenagers performed
illegal computer actions out of curiosity, to experience excitement.
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Cyber police are getting more complaints about Orkut these days as
many fake profiles are being created and thus facilitating crimes.
CYBER CRIMINALS:-
The cyber criminals constitute of various groups/ category. This
division may be justified on the basis of the object that they have in
their mind. The following are the category of cyber criminals-
Children and adolescents between the age group of 6
18 years:
The simple reason for this type of delinquent behaviour pattern in
children is seen mostly due to the inquisitiveness to know and explore
the things. Other cognate reason may be to prove themselves to be
outstanding amongst other children in their group. Further the reasons
may be psychological even. e.g. the Bal Bharati (Delhi) case was the
outcome of harassment of the delinquent by his friends.
Organized hackers:-
These kinds of hackers are mostly organised together to fulfil certain
objective. The reason may be to fulfil their political bias, fundamentalism,
etc. The Pakistanis are said to be one of the best quality hackers in the
world. They mainly target the Indian government sites with the purpose
to fulfil their political objectives. Further the NASA as well as the Microsoft
sites is always under attack by the hackers.
Professional hackers / crackers:
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Their work is motivated by the colour of money. These kinds of hackers
are mostly employed to hack the site of the rivals and get credible,
reliable and valuable information. Further they are even employed to
crack the system of the employer basically as a measure to make it safer
by detecting the loopholes.
Discontented employees:-
This group include those people who have been either sacked by their
employer or are dissatisfied with their employer. To revenge they normally
hack the system of their employee.
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MODE AND MANNER OF
COMMITING CYBER CRIME:-
Unauthorized access to computer systems or
networks / Hacking:-
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This kind of offence is normally referred as hacking in the generic
sense. However the framers of the information technology act 2000
have no where used this term so to avoid any confusion we would not
interchangeably use the word hacking for unauthorized access as the
latter has wide connotation.
Theft of information contained in electronic form:-
This includes information stored in computer hard disks, removable
storage media etc. Theft may be either by appropriating the data
physically or by tampering them through the virtual medium.
E-mail bombing:-
This kind of activity refers to sending large numbers of mail to the
victim, which may be an individual or a company or even mail servers
thereby ultimately resulting into crashing.
Data diddling:-
This kind of an attack involves altering raw data just before acomputer processes it and then changing it back after the processing is
completed. The electricity board faced similar problem of data diddling
while the department was being computerized.
Salami attacks:-
This kind of crime is normally prevalent in the financial institutions or
for the purpose of committing financial crimes. An important feature of
this type of offence is that the alteration is so small that it would
normally go unnoticed. e.g. the Ziegler case wherein a logic bomb was
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introduced in the banks system, which deducted 10 cents from every
account and deposited it in a particular account.
Denial of Service attack:-
The computer of the victim is flooded with more requests than it can
handle which cause it to crash. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
attack is also a type of denial of service attack, in which the offenders
are wide in number and widespread. e.g. Amazon, Yahoo.
Virus / worm attacks:-
Viruses are programs that attach themselves to a computer or a file
and then circulate themselves to other files and to other computers on
a network. They usually affect the data on a computer, either by
altering or deleting it. Worms, unlike viruses do not need the host to
attach themselves to. They merely make functional copies of
themselves and do this repeatedly till they eat up all the available
space on a computer's memory. E.g. love bug virus, which affected at
least 5 % of the computers of the globe. The losses were accounted to
be $ 10 million. The world's most famous worm was the Internet worm
let loose on the Internet by Robert Morris sometime in 1988 which
almost brought development of Internet to a complete halt.
Logic bombs:-
These are event dependent programs. This implies that these
programs are created to do something only when a certain event
(known as a trigger event) occurs. e.g. even some viruses may be
termed logic bombs because they lie
dormant all through the year and become active only on a particular
date (like the Chernobyl virus).
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Trojan attacks:-
This term has its origin in the word Trojan horse. In software field
this means an unauthorized programme, which passively gains control
over anothers system by representing itself as an authorised
programme. The most common form of installing a Trojan is through e-
mail. e.g. a Trojan was installed in the computer of a lady film director
in the U.S. while chatting. The cyber criminal through the web cam
installed in the computer obtained her nude photographs. He further
harassed this lady.
Internet time thefts:-
Normally in these kinds of thefts the Internet surfing hours of the
victim are used up by another person. This is done by gaining access to
the login ID and the password. E.g. Colonel Bajwas case- the Internet
hours were used up by any other person. This was perhaps one of the
first reported cases related to cyber crime in India. However this case
made the police infamous as to their lack of understanding of the
nature of cyber crime.
Web jacking:-
This term is derived from the term hi jacking. In these kinds
of offences the hacker gains access and control over the web
site of another. He may even mutilate or change the
information on the site. This may be done for fulfilling
political objectives or for money. e.g. recently the site of MIT
(Ministry of Information Technology) was hacked by the
Pakistani hackers and some obscene matter was placed
therein. Further the site of Bombay crime branch was also
web jacked. Another case of web jacking is that of the gold
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fish case. In this case the site was hacked and the
information pertaining to gold fish was changed. Further a
ransom of US $ 1 million was demanded as ransom. Thus
web jacking is a process where by control over the site of
another is made backed by some consideration for it.
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CLASSIFICATION
The subject of cyber crime may be broadly classified under the
following three groups. They are-
1. Against Individuals
a) Person.
b) Property of an individual
2. Against Organization
a) Government.
b) Firm, Company, Group of Individuals.
3. Against Society at large
The following are the crimes, which can be committed against the
followings group
1. Against Individuals:
I. Harassment via e-mails.
II. Cyber-stalking.
III. Dissemination of obscene material.
IV. Defamation.
V. Unauthorized control/access over computer system.
VI. Indecent exposure.
VII. Email spoofing.
VIII. Cheating & Fraud.
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2. Against Individual Property: -
a. Computer vandalism.
b. Transmitting virus.
c. Netrespass.
d. Unauthorized control/access over computer system.
e. Intellectual Property crimes.
f. Internet time thefts
3. Against Organization: -
a. Unauthorized control/access over computer system.
b. Possession of unauthorized information.
c. Cyber terrorism against the government organization.
d. Distribution of pirated software etc.
4.Against Society at large:-
a. Pornography (basically child pornography)
b. Polluting the youth through indecent exposure.
c. Trafficking.
d. Financial crimes.
e. Sale of illegal articles.
f. Online gambling.
g. Forgery.
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The above mentioned offences may discussed in brief as follows:
Harassment via e-mails:-
Harassment through e-mails is not a new concept. It is very similar to
harassing through letters. Recently I had received a mail from a lady
wherein she complained
about the same. Her former boy friend was sending her mails constantly
sometimes emotionally blackmailing her and also threatening her. This is
a very common type of harassment via e-mails.
Cyber-stalking:-
The Oxford dictionary defines stalking as "pursuing stealthily". Cyber
stalking involves following a person's movements across the Internet by
posting messages (sometimes threatening) on the bulletin boards
frequented by the victim, entering the chat-rooms frequented by the
victim, constantly bombarding the victim with emails etc.
Dissemination of obscene material/ Indecent exposure/
Pornography (basically child pornography) / Polluting
through indecent exposure:-
Pornography on the net may take various forms. It may include the
hosting of web site containing these prohibited materials. Use ofcomputers for producing these obscene materials. Downloading through
the Internet, obscene materials. These obscene matters may cause harm
to the mind of the adolescent and tend to deprave or corrupt their mind.
Two known cases of pornography are the Delhi Bal Bharati case and the
Bombay case wherein two Swiss couple used to force the slum children
for obscene photographs. The Mumbai police later arrested them.
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Defamation:-
It is an act of imputing any person with intent to lower the person in
the estimation of the right-thinking members of society generally or to
cause him to be shunned or avoided or to expose him to hatred, contemptor ridicule. Cyber defamation is notdifferent from conventional defamation
except the involvement of a virtual medium. e.g. the mail account of Rohit
was hacked and some mails were sent from his account to some of his batch
mates regarding his affair with a girl with intent to defame him.
Unauthorized control/access over computer system:-
This activity is commonly referred to as hacking. The Indian law has however given
a different connotation to the term hacking, so we will not use the term
"unauthorized access"interchangeably with the term "hacking" to prevent confusio
as the term used in the Act of 2000 is much wider than hacking.
E mail spoofing:-
A spoofed e-mail may be said to be one, which misrepresents its origin. It
shows it's origin to be different from which actually it originates. Recently
spoofed mails were sent on the name of Mr. Na.Vijayashankar
(naavi.org), which contained virus.
Rajesh Manyar, a graduate student at Purdue University in Indiana, was
arrested for threatening to detonate a nuclear device in the college
campus. The alleged e- mail was sent from the account of another
student to the vice president for student services. However the mail was
traced to be sent from the account of Rajesh Manyar.
Computer vandalism:-
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Vandalism means deliberately destroying or damaging property of
another. Thus computer vandalism may include within its purview any
kind of physical harm done to the computer of any person. These acts
may take the form of the theft of a computer, some part of a computer or
a peripheral attached to the computer or by physically damaging a
computer or its peripherals.
Transmitting virus/worms:-
Viruses are programs that attach themselves to a computer or a file and then
circulate themselves to other files and to other computers on a network. They
usually affect the data on a computer, either by altering or deleting it. Worms,
unlike viruses do not need
the host to attach themselves to. They merely make functional copies of
themselves and do this repeatedly till they eat up all the available space on a
computer's memory.
Intellectual Property crimes / Distribution of pirated
software:-
Intellectual property consists of a bundle of rights. Any unlawful act by
which the owner is deprived completely or partially of his rights is an
offence. The common form of IPR violation may be said to be software
piracy, copyright infringement, trademark and service mark violation,
theft of computer source code, etc.
The Hyderabad Court has in a land mark judgement has convicted threepeople and sentenced them to six months imprisonment and fine of
50,000 each for unauthorized copying and sell of pirated software.
Cyber terrorism against the government organization:-
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At this juncture a necessity may be felt that what is the need to
distinguish between cyber terrorism and cyber crime. Both are criminal
acts. However there is a compelling need to distinguish between both
these crimes. A cyber crime is generally a domestic issue, which may
have international consequences, however cyber terrorism is a global
concern, which has domestic as well as international consequences. The
common form of these terrorist attacks on the Internet is by distributed
denial of service attacks, hate websites and hate emails, attacks on
sensitive computer networks, etc. Technology savvy terrorists are using
512-bit encryption, which is next to impossible to decrypt. The recent
example may be cited of Osama Bin Laden, the LTTE, attack on
Americas army deployment system during Iraq war.
Cyber terrorism may be defined to be the premeditated use of
disruptive activities, or the threat thereof, in cyber space, with the
intention to further social, ideological, religious, political or similar
objectives, or to intimidate any person in furtherance of such objectives.
Another definition may be attempted to cover within its ambit every
act of cyber terrorism.
A terrorist means a person who indulges in wanton killing of persons or in
violence or in disruption of services or means of communications
essential to the community or in damaging property with the view to
putting the public or any section of the public in fear; or
affecting adversely the harmony between different
religious, racial, language or regional groups or castes
or communities; or coercing or overawing the
government established by law;
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ADVANTAGES OF IT ACT
2000:-
The IT Act 2000 attempts to change outdated laws and provides ways to
deal with cyber crimes. We need such laws so that people can perform
purchase transactions over the Net through credit cards without fear of
misuse. The Act offers the much-needed legal framework so that
information is not denied legal effect, validity or enforceability, solely on
the ground that it is in the form of electronic records.
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In view of the growth in transactions and communications carried out
through electronic records, the Act seeks to empower government
departments to accept filing, creating and retention of official documents
in the digital format. The Act has also proposed a legal framework for the
authentication and origin of electronic records / communications through
digital signature.
From the perspective of e-commerce in India, the IT Act 2000 and its
provisions contain many positive aspects. Firstly, the implications of
these provisions for the e-businesses would be that email would now be a
valid and legal form of communication in our country that can be duly
produced and approved in a court of law.
Companies shall now be able to carry out electronic commerce using the
legal infrastructure provided by the Act.
Digital signatures have been given legal validity and sanction in the Act.
The Act throws open the doors for the entry of corporate companies in
the business of being Certifying Authorities for issuing Digital Signatures
Certificates.
The Act now allows Government to issue notification on the web thus
heralding e-governance.
The Act enables the companies to file any form, application or any other
document with any office, authority, body or agency owned or controlled
by the appropriate Government in electronic form by means of such
electronic form as may be prescribed by the appropriate Government.
The IT Act also addresses the important issues of security, which are so
critical to the success of electronic transactions. The Act has given a legal
definition to the concept of secure digital signatures that would be
required to have been passed through a system of a security procedure,
as stipulated by the Government at a later date.
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Under the IT Act, 2000, it shall now be possible for corporates to have a
statutory remedy in case if anyone breaks into their computer systems or
network and causes damages or copies data. The remedy provided by
the Act is in the form of monetary damages, not exceeding Rs. 1 crore.
NEED OF CYBER
LAWAWARENESS IN INDIA
The latest statistics show that cyber crime is actually on the rise. However, it
is true that in India, cyber crime is not reported too much about.
Consequently there is a false sense of complacency that cyber crime does
not exist and that society is safe from cyber crime. This is not the correct
picture. The fact is that people in our country do not report cyber crimes for
many reasons. Many do not want to face harassment by the police. There is
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also the fear of bad publicity in the media, which could hurt their reputation
and standing in society. Also, it becomes extremely difficult to convince the
police to register any cyber crime, because of lack of orientation and
awareness about cyber crimes and their registration and handling by the
police.
A recent survey indicates that for every 500 cyber crime incidents that take
place, only 50 are reported to the police and out of that only one is actually
registered. These figures indicate how difficult it is to convince the police to
register a cyber crime. The establishment of cyber crime cells in different
parts of the country was expected to boost cyber crime reporting and
prosecution. However, these cells havent quite kept up with expectations.
Netizens should not be under the impression that cyber crime is vanishing
and they must realize that with each passing day, cyberspace becomes a
more dangerous place to be in, where criminals roam freely to execute their
criminals intentions encouraged by the so-called anonymity that internet
provides.
The absolutely poor rate of cyber crime conviction in the country has also
not helped the cause of regulating cyber crime. There has only been fewcyber crime convictions in the
whole country, which can be counted on fingers. We need to ensure that we
have specialized procedures for prosecution of cyber crime cases so as to
tackle them on a priority basis,. This is necessary so as to win the faith of
the people in the ability of the system to tackle cyber crime. We must
ensure that our system provides for stringent punishment of cyber crimes
and cyber criminals so that the same acts as a deterrent for others.
What is the importance of Cyber law ?
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Cyber law is important because it touches almost all aspects of transactions
and activities on and concerning the Internet, the World Wide Web and
Cyberspace. Initially it may seem that Cyber laws are a very technical field
and that it does not have any bearing to most activities in Cyberspace. But
the actual truth is that nothing could be further than the truth. Whether we
realize it or not, every action and every reaction in Cyberspace has some
legal and Cyber legal perspectives.
Does Cyber law concern Internet users?
Yes, Cyber law does concern Internet users. As the nature of Internet is
changing and this new medium is being seen as the ultimate medium ever
evolved in human history, every activity of yours in Cyberspace can and will
have a Cyber legal perspective. From the time you register your Domain
Name, to the time you set up your web site, to the time you promote your
website, to the time when you send and receive e-mails, to the time you
conduct electronic commerce transactions on the said site, at every point of
time, there are various Cyber law issues involved. You may not be bothered
about these issues today because you may feel that they are very distant
from you and that they do not have an impact on your Cyber activities. But
sooner or later, you will have to tighten your belts and take note of Cyber
law for your own benefit.
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NEED OF CYBER LAW
AWARENESS PROGRAMMED IN
INDIA :-
There is a urgent need to start cyber law awareness programmed in
India involving the following:
Are your electronic transactions legally binding and authentic? Are you
verifying your customers' identities to prevent identity theft? Does your
online terms and conditions have binding effect? Are you providing
appropriate information and clear steps for forming and concluding your
online transactions? How are you ensuring data protection and information
security on your web site? Are you recognizing the rights of your data
subjects?
Transacting on the Internet has wide legal implications as it alters the
conventional methods of doing business. To build enduring relationships
with your online customers the legal issues of e-transactions need to be
addressed from the onset.
This Awareness program will cover:-
the basics of Internet Security
basic information on Indian Cyber Law
Impact of technology aided crime
Indian IT Act on covering the legal aspects of all Online Activities
Types of Internet policies required for an Organization.
Minium hardware and software, security measures required in an
organization to protect data.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Granville Williams
2. Duggal Pawan - Cyber crime
3. Nagpal R. What is Cyber Crime?
4. Nagpal R- Defining Cyber Terrorism
5. Duggal Pawan The Internet: Legal Dimensions
6. Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against Cyber Crime
7. Postal address-
Superintendent of Police,
Cyber Crime Investigation Cell,
5th Floor, Block No.3, CGO Complex,
Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110 003Phone: 4362203, 4392424
e-mail-cbiccic@bol.net.in
8. Hindustan Times 03.03.03
Besides, help of different websites has been taken.
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