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Cybercrime, refers to any crime that involves a
computer and a network, where the computers may
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or may not have played an instrumental part in the
commission of a crime. Net-crime refers, more
precisely, to criminal exploitation of the Internet.
Issues surrounding this type of crime have become
C high-profile, particularly those surrounding hacking,
y copyright infringement, and child grooming. There
are also problems of privacy when confidential
b information is lost or intercepted, lawfully or
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C
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E Financial Claims: This would include cheating, credit card
frauds, money laundering etc.

Sale of illegal articles: This would include sale of
narcotics, weapons and wildlife etc., by posting information on
websites, bulletin boards or simply by using e-mail
C communications.

y Onlineabroad, thatThereonline gambling. In fact, it ishosted on
servers
gambling:
offer
are millions of websites, all
believed
b that many of these websites are actually fronts for money
laundering.
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I Forgery: Counterfeit currency notes, postage and revenue stamps,
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printers and scanners.

Cyber Defamation: This occurs when defamation takes place
with the help of computers and or the Internet e.g. someone
published defamatory matter about someone on a websites or
C sends e-mail containing defamatory information to all of that
person’s friends.
y Cyber Stalking: Cyber stalking involves following a person’s
b movements across the Internetthe victim, entering the chat-rooms
bulletin boards frequented by
by posting messages on the

e frequented by the victim.

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C E-Mail spoofing: A spoofed email is one that appears to originate
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Intellectual Property Crimes: These include software
piracy, copyright infringement, trademarks violations etc.

Unauthorized access to computer system or network: This
activity is commonly referred to as hacking. The Indian Law has
C however given a different connotation to the term hacking.

y Theft of information stored in computer hard disks, removable
includes
information contained in electronic from: This

b storage media etc.
e E-Mail bombing: to the victim. refers to sending a large
amount of e-mails
Email bombing


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C Data diddling: This kind of an attack involves altering the raw
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Salami attacks: Those attacks are used for the commission of
financial crimes. The key here is to make the alteration so
insignificant that in a single case it would go completely unnoticed
e.g. A bank employee inserts a program into bank’s servers, that
C deducts a small amount from the account of every customer.

y Denial of Service: than involves flooding computer resources
with more requests
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it can handle. This causes the resources
b to crash thereby denying authorized users the service offered by
the resources.
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C Virus/worm: Viruses are programs that attach themselves to a
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computer, either by altering or deleting it. Worms, unlike viruses
don not need the host to attach themselves to.

Logic bombs: These are dependent programs. This implies that
these programs are created to do something only when a certain
C event occurs, e.g. some viruses may be termed logic bombs
because they lie dormant all through the year and become active
y only on a particular date.

b Trojan Horse:program which functions from inside what an to
unauthorized
A Trojan as this program is aptly called, is
seems
e be an authorized program, thereby concealing what it is actually
doing.

C
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Of CYBER CRIME
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C Internet Time Theft: This connotes the usage by unauthorized
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Physically damaging a computer system: This crime is
committed by physically damaging a computer or its peripherals.

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C
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C
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C CHILDREN:
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photographs in a chat room.They should not respond to
messages, which are suggestive, obscene, belligerent or
threatening, and not to arrange a face-to –face meeting without
telling parents or guardians. They should remember that people
online might not be who they seem.
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y Parent should gambling, hate speech, drugs, on PC toetc.
children from
use content filtering software
alcohol
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b There is also softwareto see whichtimeitem childrenuse of visited.
and allowing parents
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site
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e Use this software to keep track of the type of activities of children.

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ORGANISATIONS AND GOVERNMENT
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i. PHYSICAL SECURITY:
ii. ACCESS CONTROL:

C iii. PASSWORD:

y iv. FINDING THE HOLES IN NETWORK:

b v. USING ENCRYPTION

e vi. DETECTION


C
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C Capacity of human mind is unfathomable. It is not possible to
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succeeded in totally eliminating crime from the globe. The only
possible step is to make people aware of their rights and duties (to
report crime as a collective duty towards the society) and further
making the application of the laws more stringent to check crime.
Undoubtedly the Act is a historical step in the cyber world.
C Further I all together do not deny that there is a need to bring
changes in the Information Technology Act to make it more
y effective to combat cyber crime. I would conclude with a word of
caution for the pro-legislation school that it should be kept in
b mind that the provisions of the cyber law are not made so
stringent that it may retard the growth of the industry and prove
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