What is cyber crime History of cyber crime Ways of doing cyber crime Types of cyber crime Cyber safety Tips to cyber safety Advantages Of Cyber Safety Cyber Crime Statistics Cyber Laws In India The Information Technology Act, 2000 The Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008

1. Cyber Crime and Its Safety

2. Contents
 What is cyber crime
 History of cyber crime
 Ways of doing cyber crime
 Types of cyber crime
 Cyber safety
 Tips to cyber safety
 Advantages Of Cyber Safety
 Cyber Crime Statistics
 Cyber Laws In India
 The Information Technology Act, 2000
 The Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008

3. What is Cyber Crime
 Cybercrimes is defined as:
Offences that are committed against
individuals or groups of individuals with a
criminal motive to intentionally harm the
reputation of the victim or cause physical
or mental harm to the victim directly or
indirectly, using modern telecommunication
networks such as Internet.

4. History of Cyber Crime
 The first recorded cyber crime took
place in the year 1820.
 The first spam email took place in
1978.
 The first virus was installed on an
Apple computer in 1982.

5. Cyber Crime can be done by two ways:-
 The computer as a target-
e.g. hacking, virus/ worm attack etc.
 The computer as a weapon-
e.g. credit card frauds, cyber terrorism
etc.

6. Types Of Cyber Crime

7. Types of Cyber Crime
 Hacking-
means illegal intrusion into a computer system/ network.
It is also known as cracking.
 Email bombing-
refers to sending a large amount of emails to the victim
resulting in crashing of victims email account or mail
servers.
 Data diddling-
is the changing of data before or during entry into the
computer system.
 Cyber stalking –
refers to the use of the internet, e-mail, or other
electronic communications devices to stalk another
person.

8. Types of Cyber Crime (contd.)
 Cyber spying-
is the act or practice of obtaining secrets without the
permission of the holder of the information.
 Denial of service attack-
or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an
attempt to make a machine or network resource
unavailable to its intended users.
 Web jacking-
occurs when someone forcefully takes control of a
website( by cracking the password).
 Cyber vandalism-
means damaging or destroying data
rather than stealing or misusing them.

10. What is Cyber Safety
 Cyber safety, is the knowledge of
maximizing the user's personal
safety and security risks on private
information and property associated
with using the internet, and the
self-protection from computer
crime in general.

11. Tips to Cyber Safety
 Use a strong password.
 Avoid sending any photograph
online particularly to strangers.
 Never send your credit card number
to any site that is not secured.
 Use antivirus softwares-keep them
up to date.
 Maintain backup.
 Keep your personal information
private.

12. Advantages Of Cyber Safety
 Defend us from critical attacks.
 Browse the safe website.
 Internet security process all the
incoming and outgoing data on our
computer.
 Security will defend from hacks and
virus.
 The security developers will update
their database once every week.
Hence the new virus also deleted.

13. Cyber Crime Statistics
 India stands 11th in cyber crime in the world

14. CYBER LAWS IN INDIA

15. Cyber Laws in India
 The Information Technology Act,
2000
 The Information Technology
(Amendment) Act, 2008

16. The Information Technology Act,
2000
 The primary source of cyber law in
India is the Information Technology
Act, 2000 (IT Act) which came into
force on 17 October 2000.
 The primary purpose of the Act is to
provide legal recognition to
electronic commerce and to
facilitate the filling of electronic
records with the Government.

17. The Information Technology
(Amendment) Act, 2008
 The Government of India has brought
major amendments to ITA-2000 in form of
the Information Technology Amendment
Act, 2008.
 It has added several new sections on
offences including Cyber terrorism and
Data Protection.
 A set of rules relating to Sensitive Personal
Information and Reasonable Security
Practices (mentioned in section 43A of the
ITAA, 2008) was released in April 2011.

18. AND HAVE A SAFE SURFING