Its all about to aware about how the cyber crime is done in this fast technological world. and some suggestion points how to deal with this crime.Government laws can stop these type of crime.
2. Content
Introduction
History of cyber crime
variants of cyber crime
Types of cyber crime
Cyber security
Advantage of cyber security
Safety tips to cyber crime
Cyber law of India
conclusion
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4. Cyber crime encompasses any criminal act dealing
with computers and networks (called hacking).
Additionally, cyber crime also includes traditional
crimes conducted through the Internet. For example;
hate crimes, telemarketing and Internet fraud, identity
theft, and credit card account thefts are considered to
be cyber crimes when the illegal activities are
committed through the use of a computer and the
Internet.
5. The first recorded cyber crime took place in 1820.
This is not surprising considering the fact that abacus,
which is thought to be earliest form of computer, and
has been around 3500 B.C
In India , china and Japan, the era of modern computer,
however began with analytical engine of charles
Babbage.
The spam E-mail took place in 1976.
The first virus was installed on Apple computer in
1982
7. Hacking -Hacking is an act committed by an intruder by accessing
your computer system without your permission. Hackers (the
people doing the ‘hacking’) are basically computer programmers,
who have an advanced understanding of computers and commonly
misuse this knowledge for devious reasons. They’re usually
technology buffs who have expert-level skills in one particular
software program or language.
A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is an explicit attempt by attackers
to deny service to intended users of that service. It involves flooding
a computer resource with more requests than it can handle
consuming its available bandwidth which results in server overload.
This causes the resource (e.g. a web server) to crash or slow down
significantly so that no one can access it. Using this technique, the
attacker can render a web site inoperable by sending massive
amounts of traffic to the targeted site. A site may temporarily
malfunction or crash completely, in any case resulting in inability of
the system to communicate adequately. DoS attacks violate the
acceptable use policies of virtually all internet service providers.
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10. Email bombing is characterized by an abuser
sending huge volumes of email to a target
address resulting in victim’s email account or
mail servers crashing. The message is
meaningless and excessively long in order to
consume network resources. If multiple
accounts of a mail server are targeted, it may
have a denial-of-service impact. Such mail
arriving frequently in your inbox can be easily
detected by spam filters. Email bombing is
commonly carried out using botnets (private
internet connected computers whose security
has been compromised by malware and under
the attacker’s control) as a DoS attack.
11. Web jacking derives its name from
“hijacking”. Here, the hacker takes control
of a web site fraudulently. He may change
the content of the original site or even
redirect the user to another fake similar
looking page controlled by him. The owner
of the web site has no more control and
the attacker may use the web site for his
own selfish interests. Cases have been
reported where the attacker has asked for
ransom, and even posted obscene
material on the site.