We, at Mouseworld Now, are committed to empower our esteemed readers with the much needed knowledge and information of cyber law. As part of this humble effort, we embark upon presenting the readers community, IT end-users, academicians,? IT vendors, VARs and? other important stake holders with regular bulletins and articles, with professional inputs from legal experts, to make this seemingly unintelligible legal aspect of IT in India become simpler to drive better understanding.
Hope this will go a long way in spreading the awareness and help prevent online frauds, cyber crimes and would prepare a level playing field for all except the fraudsters. Our discussion starts with cyber crime?.over to you, dear readers.
Whats and Hows of Cyber Crime
Simply put cyber crime constitutes of unlawful acts wherein the computer is either a tool or a target or both by the cyber criminal. Cyber crimes may involve criminal activities that are traditional in nature, such as theft, fraud, forgery, defamation and mischief, all of this being subject to the Indian Penal Code. The abuse of computers has created a gamut of new age crimes that are addressed by the Information Technology Act, 2000 promulgated by government of India.
Cyber crimes can be categorized in two ways:
1. The Computer as a Target: Using a computer to attack other computers
This includes unlawful activities like Hacking, Virus/Worm attacks, DOS attack etc.
2. The computer as a weapon: Using a computer to commit real world crimes
This involves Cyber Terrorism, IPR violations, Credit card frauds, EFT frauds, Pornography, etc.
Cyber Crime is regulated by Cyber Laws or Internet Laws.
Technical Aspects of Cyber Law
Technological advancements have created new possibilities for criminal activity, speciafically the criminal misuse of information technologies such as:
a. Unauthorized access & Hacking
Access means gaining entry into, instructing or communicating with the logical, arithmetical, or memory function resources of a computer/computer system/computer network.
Unauthorized access therefore mean 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.
What?s 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. They possess the desire to destroy and they get the kick out of such destruction. Some hackers also hack for personal monetary gains like stealing the credit card information, transferring money from various bank accounts to their own account followed by withdrawal of money.
What?s web hijacking
When a hacker takes control of another person?s website by hacking the web server, it?s called web hijacking.
b. Trojan Attack
The program which acts like something useful but do things that are quiet damping. The programs of this kind are called as Trojans.
The name Trojan Horse is popular. It?s one of the most discussed area of cyber crime. Its almost a undoubting and concealing attack and takes its name from the mythical wooden Trojan horse that the Greeks used to destroy impenetrable Troy.
Trojans attack come in two parts ? a Client part and a Server part. When the victim (unknowingly) runs the server on its machine, the attacker will then use the Client to connect to the Server and start using the Trojan.
TCP/IP protocol is the usual protocol type that?s used for communications. Some functions of the trojans use the UDP protocol as well.
c. Virus and Worm attack
A program that has capability to infect other programs and prepares copies of itself to spread into other programs is called a Virus. This is one such chilling thing that usually spreads fear into the hearts of computer users on and off.
Likewise, programs that multiply like viruses but spread from computer to computer are called as Worms.
d. E-mail & IRC-related crimes
1. Email spoofing
Email spoofing refers to email that appears to have originated from one source when it was actually sent from another source.
2. Email Spamming
Email spamming refers to sending email to thousands of users ? almost resembling a chain letter.
3. Sending malicious codes through Email
Generally, E-mails are used to send viruses, Trojans, etc. as attachments or a link of a website is often sent which when visited downloads a malicious code.
4. Email bombing
E-mail bombing is when abusers repeatedly send an identical email message to a particular address.
5. Sending threatening emails
6. Defamatory emails
7. Email frauds
8. IRC related
Three main ways to attack IRC are: ?verbal??8218;??#8220; attacks, clone attacks, and flood attacks.
e. Denial of Service attacks
This refers to flooding a computer resource with more requests than it can handle. This causes the resource to crash thereby denying access of service to its authorized users.
Examples of this attack abound. These include:
- Attempts to ?flood? a network, thereby preventing legitimate network traffic
- Attempts to disrupt connections between two machines, thereby preventing access to a service
- Attempts to prevent a particular individual from accessing a service
- Attempts to disrupt service to a specific system or person.
Source: http://www.mouseworldnow.com/tech-gyan/cyber-law/how-cyber-law-operates-india.html
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