Presentation on Cyber Crime

1. Global Technical Campus, Jaipur
“IT act Case Study”
DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
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Presented by-
Jayati Tiwari

2. HACKING

3. CONTENTS
•Cyber crime - Introduction
•Types
•How it is committed?
•What is IT Law & Cyber Law?
•Case Study
•Verdict
•Quick facts about cyber crime.
•Recommendations
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4. What is Cyber crime???
•Cyber crime is simply defined as crimes that
are directly related to computers and using
computers.
•A personal computer connected to the Internet
without protection may be infected with
malicious software within a minute.
Hacking
Every act committed towards breaking into a
computer and/or network is hacking. Hackers
write or use ready-made computer programs to
attack the target computer.
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5. Types
Target group of
computer
devices
Target personal
computer
devices
Against
Person
Against
Property
Against
Govt.
Denial of
service
Malware
Computer
Viruses
Transmission
of indecent
material
Harassment
(racial,
religious
etc.)
Computer
Vandalism
Transmission
of harmful
programs
Terrorize
international
Govt.
Cracking
into
military
maintained
website
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6. How it is Committed ???
Unauthorized access
Unauthorized access means
any kind of access without the
permission of either the
rightful owner or the person in
charge of a computer,
computer system or computer
network.
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7. Hacking
Every act committed towards breaking
into a computer and/or network is
hacking. Hackers write or use ready-
made computer programs to attack the
target computer.

8. Trojan Attack
The program that act like
something useful but do the
things that are quiet damping.
The programs of this kind are
called as Trojans.

9. Virus and Worm attack:-
A program that has capability to infect
other programs and make copies of itself
and spread into other programs is called
virus.
Programs that multiply like viruses but
spread from computer to computer are
called as worms.

10. Email spoofing
Email spoofing refers to email that appears to
have been originated from one source when it
was actually sent from another source.
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11. Phishing scams and fraud
A ‘phisher’ may use spoof emails to direct a
computer user to fraudulent websites to elicit
a transfer of money, or sensitive information
such as passwords or credit card
details, from the user.

12. •Cyber law or Internet law is a term that
encapsulates the legal issues related to use of
the Internet. It is less a distinct field of law
than intellectual property or contract law, as
it is a domain covering many areas of law and
regulation. Some leading topics include
internet access and usage, privacy, freedom of
expression.
What is IT Law and Cyber Law ??
•IT Law is a set of legal enactments,
currently in existence in several countries,
which governs the digital dissemination of
both (digitalized) information and software.
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13. Case study
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14. e-bay.in is the most popular online shopping mall providing free online
auctions for products like mobiles/cell phones, cameras, computers, etc.
Bhubaneswar: Rourkela police busted a racket involving an online fraud
worth Rs 12.5 lakh.
In Jan 2012 ,Two persons, including alleged mastermind Debasis Pandit,
a BCA student, were arrested and forwarded to the court of the sub
divisional judicial magistrate, Rourkela the other arrested person is Rabi
Narayan Sahu.
The ebay case

15. Pandit allegedly hacked into the eBay India site using XSS Scripting and gathered
the details of around 700 credit cardholders. He then made purchases by using their
passwords.
The fraud came to the notice of eBay officials when it was detected that several
purchases were made from Rourkela while the customers were based in cities such as
Bangalore, Baroda and Jaipur and even London.
The company brought the matter to the notice of Rourkela police after some
customers lodged complaints
Pandit used the address of Sahu for delivery of the purchased goods
The gang was involved in train, flight and hotel reservations.
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What they did ???

16. Verdict
A case has been registered against the accused under Sections 420
and 34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 66 of the IT Act and
further investigation is on, he said.
Section 66
Any person who sends, by means of a computer resource or a
communication device
shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to three years and with fine.
Section 420 Of Indian Penal Code
covers offences relating to cheating and dishonestly inducing
delivery of property, and leads to punishments of fines
and/or jail terms of up to 7 years and is liable to pay the total
amount with fine of 1 lakh.

17. Section 34 of Indian Panel Code :
When a criminal act is done by several persons in
furtherance of the common intention of all, each of such
persons is liable for that act in the same manner as if it
were done by him alone.

18. Quick Facts about Ciber Crime
29.9 million people fell victim to cybercrime,
$4 billion in direct financial losses,
$3.6 billion in time spent resolving the crime,
4 in 5 online adults (80%) have been a victim of Cybercrime,
17% of adults online have experienced cybercrime on their mobile phone.
Source: Norton Cybercrime Report 2011
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19. What can be done???
More Public awareness campaigns
Training of police officers to effectively combat
cyber crimes
More Cyber crime police cells set up across the
country
Websites aid in creating awareness and
encouraging reporting of cyber crime cases
Specialised Training of forensic investigators
and experts
Active coordination between police and other
law enforcement agencies and authorities is
required.
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20. Conclusions
Cybercrime greatly affects individuals, businesses, and
national security due to the pervasiveness of the Internet .
Different countries should work together and use legal,
organizational, and technological approaches to combat
cybercrime
•To reduce the damage to critical infrastructures
•To protect the Internet from being abused
"The modern thief can steal more with a computer than with
a gun. Tomorrow's terrorist may be able to do more damage
with a keyboard than with a bomb".
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21. THANK YOU
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