JAMIA INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES, AKKALKUWA

1. ABSTRACT
“Cyber” refers to imaginary space, which is created when the electronic devices
communicate, like network of computers. Cyber-crime refers to anything done in the cyber
space with a criminalintent. These could be either the criminal activities in the conventional
Sense or could be activities, newly evolved with the growth of the newmedium. Cyber-crime
includes acts such as hacking, uploading obscenecontent on the Internet, sending obscene e-
mails and hacking into aperson's e-banking account to withdraw money.
Computer crime, or cybercrime, refers to any crime that involves acomputer and a
network, where the computers played an instrumentalpart in the commission of a crime.
Cyber Crime has nowhere beendefined in any statute /Act passed or enacted by the Indian
Parliament.The concept of cyber-crime is not radically different from the concept
ofconventional crime. Both include conduct whether act or omission,which cause breach of
rules of law and counterbalanced by the sanctionof the state .particularly those surrounds
hacking, copyrightinfringement through wares, child pornography and child grooming.
There has been tremendous growth in use of Internet.Technology gives rise to Cyber
Crime. Cyber Crime is technologybased crime committed by technocrats. This paper deals
withvariants of cyber-crime like Salami Attack, Packet Sniffing,Tempest Attacks, and Bot
Networks. It also includes real worldcyber-crime cases their scenario and modus operandi.
The globalspam rate, malware rate and phishing rate is increasing rapidly.And there is a
potential impact of cyber-crime on economics,consumer trust and production time. The
counter measures likeGPRS Security architecture, Intrusion Detection and preventionSystem
and Agent Based Distributed Intrusion Detection Systemare used for security purposes.
Computer crime also referred as Cybercrime has increased in severity and frequency
in the recent years and because of this, it has become a major concern for companies,
universities and organizations. Worldwide governments, police departments and intelligence
units have started to react. In this paper, we provide an overview of Cybercrime and examine
the awareness among different respondents on the issue of Cyber Crime, to emphasize the
severity of this problem and the urgent need to limit its impact worldwide.

2. ACKOWLEDGEMENT
This report is spanned over a period of one week and the number of people who had helped
us is outstanding. To begin with, we would like to thank our seminar guide Mr. Mohammad
Asif who has helped us throughout the period and has helped us through the times of need.
Inspite of their busy schedules, it was very kind of them to spare some of their precious time
and give us valuable suggestions which ultimately formed heart of this report. Mr.
Mohammad Asif was a great source of inspiration and allowed us to work in the lab for
extended hours.
We also extend our thanks to all the professors of our department for their valuable
guidance. We would also like to thank our fellow students for their support and good wishes.
Finally we thank entire computer engineering department for excellent facilities and
encouragement given during the course of report.