cyber crime full report

[seminar class]

Seminar by
Nidhi Anand

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CYBER CRIME
INTRODUCTION
 Cybercrime is a form of crime where the internet or computers are used as a medium to commit crime.
 Issues surrounding this type of crime have become high-profile, particularly those surrounding hacking, copyright, infringement, child pornography and child grooming.
CATEGORIES OF CYBER CRIME:
• Cyber crimes can be basically divided into 3 major categories:
1. Cyber crimes against persons.
2. Cyber crimes against property.
3. Cyber crimes against government
FIRST CATEGORY
• Cyber harassment is a distinct Cyber crime. Various kinds of harassment can and do occur in cyberspace, or through the use of cyberspace. Harassment can be sexual, racial, religious, or other.
SECOND CATEGORY
• These crimes include computer vandalism (destruction of others' property), transmission of harmful programes.
THIRD CATEGORY
• Cyber terrorism is one distinct kind of crime in this category.
• The growth of internet has shown that the medium of Cyberspace is being used by individuals and groups to threaten the international governments as also to terrorize the citizens of a country.
Types Of Cyber Crime
• Hacking
• Denial of Service Attack
• Pornography
• Phising
• Spoofing
• Salami Attack
• Forgery
Hacking
• The act of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system or network and in some cases making unauthorized use of this access.
• Hacking is also the act by which other forms of cyber crime(e.g., fraud,terrorism etc.) are committed.
• Hacking is simple term means illegal intrusion into a computer system without the permission of the computer user.
DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK
• This is an act by the criminal , who floods the bandwidth of the victim’s network or fills his e-mail box with spam mail depriving him of the services he is entitled to access or provide.
• This involves flooding computer resources with more request than it can handle.This causes the resources to crash thereby denying authorized users the service offered by the resources.
PORNOGRAPHY
• Pornography is the first consistently successful e-commerce product.
• Pornography has deceptive tactics and mouse trapping technologies which encourages customers to access their websites.
• Any body including children can log on to the internet and access websites with pornographic contents with a click of a mouse.
• Publishing , transmitting any material in electronic form which is lascivious or appeals to the prurient intrest is an offence under the provision of section 67 of I.T. Act-2000.
PHIShING
• In computing, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as user names , passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
SPOOFING
• The process of deception by which an individual or system alters its identity or creates additional identities , thereby causing another person or system to act incorrectly.
• Getting one computer on a network to pretend to have the identity of another computer , usually one with special access privileges , so as to obtain access to the other computer on the network.
• Salami Attack
• In such crime criminal makes insignificant changes in such a ,manner that such changes would go unnoticed.
• Criminal makes such program that deducts small amount like $2.50 per month from the account of all the customer of the bank and deposit the same in his account.
• In this case no account holder will approach the bank for such small amount but criminal gains huge amount.
FORGERY
• Counter feit currency notes , postage and revenue stamps , mark sheets etc. ,can be forged using sophisticated computers , printers and scanners.
CYBER SECURITY
• Cyber security involves protection of sensitive personal and business information through prevention, detection and response to different online attack.
• Cyber security standards are security standards which enables organizations to practice safe security techniques to minimize the number of successful cyber security attacks.
ADVANTAGES OF CYBER SECURITY
• It defends us from critical attacks.
• It helps us browse safe websites.
• It defends us from hacks and virus.
• Security developers update their database every week hence new virus also gets deleted.
• Internet security process all the incoming and outgoing data on our computer.
PREVENTION
 Preventive measures should be adopted by both children as well as parents
 For instance children should not reveal any kind of identity while chatting etc.
 Parents should use content filter software on PC.
 For any individual, he/she should share any personal information online to whomsoever it might be.
• Why learn about cyber crime?
• Everybody using COMPUTERS
• From white collar criminals to terrorist organization and from teenagers to adult.
• Conventional crimes like forgery, extortion, kidnapping etc. are being committed with the help of computers.
• New generation is growing up with computers.
• MOST IMPORTANT-monetary transactions are moving on to the internet
CONCLUSION
The modern thief can steal more with a computer than with a gun.Tomorrow’s terrorists may be able to do more damage with a keyboard than with a bomb.
PREVENTION
• Disable and log off a specific user account to prevent access.
• Disable and log off a group of user accounts which access a particular service that is being attacked.
• Disable and dismount specific (network) devices, for instance disk devices that are being swamped.