Night Blotter

Cybercrime

 

 

 

 

INTRODUCTION:

 

With the daily evolution of the human mind, ways to commit the offense is changing dramatically. Criminals are getting smarter every day and apply there minds in this context, to commit crimes and escape undetected. With the advent of computers, nobody thought that way or become a source of committing a crime. Charles Babbage, who is well known as the father of the computer would never have dreamed that the car is giving the world can become a source of crime and never influence society in a negative way.

 

When we talk about cyber crime can do something that is about an injustice was a computer system is involved.

The term ‘cyber crime’ is a misnomer. This term has been defined anywhere in any of the laws / Law approved or issued by the Parliament of India. The concept of computer crime is not radically different from the concept of conventional crime. Both include conduct whether act or omission giving rise to a violation of the law and offset by the sanction of the State. Although computer crime is a new type of crime came into force shortly after the advent of computers and the scenario was further aggravated with the “influence of the Internet in our daily lives.

 

 

CONVENTIONAL crime

 

Crime is a social and economic phenomenon and is as old as human society. Delinquency is a legal concept and has the sanction of law. The crime is defined as “a legal error that may be followed by criminal proceedings which may result in punishment..” A crime can be considered a performance accompanied by an act or omission forbidden by law and the consequent violation of which is visited by its consequences.

 

 

CYBER CRIME:

 

Cybercrime is more recent and perhaps the most complicated problem of cyber world. “Cybercrime can say that these species, which generally conventional crime, and where the computer is an object or subject of the conduct constituting the crime. Cybercrime in general can be defined as” illegal acts that the computer is a tool or target or both. ”

 

The computer can be used as a tool in crime rates following financial assets, the sale of illegal goods, pornography, online gambling, crime, intellectual property, e-mail spoofing, forgery, cyber defamation, cyber harassment . The team, however, could be a target for unlawful acts in the following instances of unauthorized access to computer system / equipment / computer networks, stealing information in electronic format

e-mail bombing, salami attacks, logic bombs, Trojan attacks, theft of time, internet, web lifting, computer theft, physical damage to computer systems.

 

 

DISTINCTION BETWEEN CONVENTIONAL AND CYBER-CRIME

 

Apparently there is no distinction between computer and conventional crime, and the results of the crimes in a kind of loss of any of the parties. However, in deep introspection, we can say that there is a fine line between conventional and computer crime, which is sensitive. The dividing line is involved in half of cases of cyber crime.

 

 

Road and how to commit cybercrime:

 

 

1. Hacking:

   

This type of crime is typically known as hacking into a generic sense. However, the architects of the Law on Information Technology 2000 will not have to use this term to avoid confusion, do not use the word interchangeably hacker “unauthorized access” in that it has wider significance.

 

2. Theft of information by electronic means:

This information stored on your hard disk, removable storage media may be suitable for handling or physical data theft through virtual means.

3. EMAIL attack:

This type of activity relates to the dispatch of a large number of emails to the victim, who can be an individual or a company or mail servers from there resulting in system failures.

4. The data handled:

This type of attack involves altering raw data just before a computer processes it and then change again after the transformation is complete.

5. SalAMI ATTACKS:

This type of crime is often the case in financial institutions or to commit financial crimes. An important feature of this type of crime is that change is so small that usually go unnoticed.

6. Denial of service:

victim’s computer is flooded with more requests it can handle causing the accident. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a type of denial of service attack in which criminals are found in large numbers and widespread.

7. Virus or worm attacks:

Viruses are programs that attach to a computer or a file and then transmitted to other files and other computer network. It usually affects the data in a computer, or by altering or deleting it. Worms, unlike viruses do not need to adhere to the host. They merely make functional copies of themselves and do this several times until they eat all the available space in a computer memory. E. g. love bug virus, which affected at least 5% of computers worldwide. The losses accounted for $ 10 million. world’s most famous worm was the Internet worm unleashed on the Internet by Robert Morris, once in 1988. Almost all of the development of the Internet has led to a complete halt.

8. Logic Bomb:

These programs are dependent events. This means that these programs are designed to do something only when a certain event (known as a trigger event) occurs. E. g. Some viruses can also be called logic bombs because they sleep all year round and are activated only by a certain date (for example, the Chernobyl virus).

9. TROJAN ATTACKS:

This term comes from the word “Trojan horse”. In the field of software, this means that an unauthorized program, which earns more than passively monitors other system of representation of himself as an approved program. The most common installation of a Trojan is through email. E. g. a Trojan is installed on the computer of a woman filmmaker in the United States during the chat. Criminals in cyberspace through the web cam installed on the team got its photos of nude. also harassed this lady.

10. Internet time theft:

Normally in these kinds of thefts hours surfing the Internet of the victim are used by another person. This is done to access the user ID and password. E. g. Colonel Bajwa case of the Internet, the hours have been used by anyone else. This was perhaps one of the first cases involving cyber crimes in India. However, in this case the police famous for their lack of understanding of the nature of the crime.

11. CATS WEB:

This term comes from the high elevation. In this type of crime that the attacker gains access and control of another website. You can also cut or modify information on the site. This can be done to achieve political objectives or for money. E. g. Recently, the site of MIT (Ministry of Information Technology) has been compromised by hackers and Pakistani obscene material was placed in it. Also the site of the crime branch has also jacked web Bombay. Another case of site elevation is the case, the “fool’s gold.” In this case, the site was hacked and information about the goldfish has changed. Learn a ransom of $ 1 million ransom demanded. This web jacking is a process in which a control on another site with the support of some considerations for it.

Classification of cybercrime:

The issue of cybercrime in general can be classified into three groups. Son-1. Against persons:

Other against personb. have the property of an individual

2. Organization Against:

Other Governmentc. Business, Society, a group of individuals. 3. Against society in general

Against the person: –

It can be: i. Harassment via email. ii. Cyber-bullying. iii. The dissemination of obscene material. iv. Defamation. see unauthorized control / access to a computer system. vi. Fraud and scam

Offences against private property: –

i. Computer vandalism. ii. The transmission of the virus. iii. Netrespassiv. unauthorized control / access to a computer system. V. Crimesvi intellectual property. Time theft

Organization against: –

i. unauthorized control / access to the system through the computer. Possession of unauthorized information. iii. Cyber terrorism against the government organization. iv. Distribution of pirated software, etc.

Against society in general: –

i. Pornography (basically child pornography). ii. Contaminants youth through indecent exposure. iii. Traffickingiv. Crimesv Financial. articlesvi illegal sale. Online gamblingvii. Forgery

Some of the crimes mentioned above can be discussed in brief as follows:

 

1. Harassment-mail

Harassment via e-mail is not a new concept. It is very similar to harassing through letters.

2. Cyber-stalking

The Oxford Dictionary defines harassment as “pursuing stealthily”. Cyber bullying involves tracking the movements of a person over the Internet by posting messages (sometimes threatening) on the bulletin boards frequented by the victim, entering the chat room frequented by the victim, constantly bombarding the victim with emails, etc.

3. The dissemination of obscene material ”

Pornography on the network can take different forms. You can include the holding of the website containing banned substances. Using a computer to produce these materials obscene. Download via the Internet, obscene materials. These obscene matters may damage the minds of teenagers and tend to corrupt or damage their minds. Two known cases of pornography are the Delhi and Mumbai Bal Bharati case in which two Swiss couples used to force children from slums obscene photographs. Bombay police came to his arrest.

4. Defamation

It is an act of attribution of each person with the intent of reducing the person in the estimation of right-thinking members of society in general or to cause him to be prevented or avoided or expose to hatred, contempt or ridicule. Cyber defamation is not different from the conventional ones, except for defamation involving virtual environment. E. g. The email account has been compromised and some Rohit mail sent from your account for some of his bandmates for his relationship with a girl with the intention of defaming him.

5. unauthorized control / access to a computer-system

This activity is commonly known as piracy. The Indian law has however given a different connotation to the term hacking, so do not use the term “unauthorized access” interchangeably with the term “piracy” to avoid confusion that the term used by law 2000 is broader hacking.

 

 

6. PC-vandalism

Vandalism means deliberately destroying or damaging property of another. Thus computer vandalism may include within its scope of any physical damage caused to a person’s computer. These acts may take the form of theft of a computer, a portion of a computer or device connected to your computer or physical damage to a computer or its peripherals.

 

8. Intellectual Property crimes / Distribution of pirated software,

Intellectual property consists of a set of rights. Any unlawful act under which the owner is deprived of all or part of their rights is a crime. The common form of violation of intellectual property rights that can be called software piracy, infringement of copyright, trademark and service mark infringement, theft of computer source code, etc.

 

9. Cyber terrorism against the government organization

At this point, a need that we perceive what is the need to distinguish between terrorism and cybercrime. Both are criminal acts. However, there is an urgent need to distinguish between these two crimes. A cybercrime is usually a national problem that could have international consequences, however cyber terrorism is a global concern, which has domestic and international implications.

The common form of these terrorist attacks on the Internet is distributed denial of service, hate websites and hate emails, attacks on sensitive computer networks, cyber terrorism etc. can be defined as “the premeditated use of disruptive activities, or threat thereof, in cyberspace, with the intention to achieve social, ideological, religious, political or similar purposes, or to intimidate people in support of these objectives ”

Another definition might be tempted to cover within its scope all acts of computer terrorism.

A terrorist is a person who is given to the indiscriminate killing of people or of violence or disruption of services or means of communication vital to the community or property damage, in order to –

(1) to the public or a section of the public to fear,

(2) undermine the harmony between different religious, racial, linguistic or regional, caste or communities

(3) intimidate the forces or the government has established statutory or

(4) endanger the sovereignty and integrity of the nation

and a cyber-terrorist is the person using the computer system or as a means to achieve those objectives. Each act done in pursuance thereof is an act of cyberterrorism.

10. Traffic

Trafficking takes many forms. May be trafficking drugs, human beings, weapons, etc. These forms of trafficking in weapons unmarked van, and carried out under pseudonyms. A racket was arrested in Chennai, where drugs are sold under the name of honey.

 

11. Fraud and deception

Online fraud and deception is one of the most profitable businesses that are growing now in cyberspace. It may take several forms. Some cases of online fraud and scams that have surfaced are those related to credit card crimes, contract crimes, offering jobs, etc.

 

Legal Provisions:

The Parliament of India considers it necessary to implement the decision of the General Assembly adopted the Model Law on Electronic Commerce adopted by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. As a result of which the Law on Information Technology 2000 was approved and executed May 17, 2000. The preamble of this law states its objective to legalize electronic commerce and a new amendment to the Penal Code of India 1860, Indian Evidence Act 1872, Evidence Act1891 banker Book and Reserve Bank of India Act 1934. The basic objective of introducing the changes in these acts is to make them compatible with the law of 2000. In order to regulate and control the affairs of the cyber world effectively.

CONCLUSION:

Capacity of the human mind is unfathomable. You can not eliminate crime from cyberspace. It is quite possible that control them. History is witness that no law has been able to eliminate all crimes in the world. The only possible step is to make people aware of their rights and obligations (to report crime as a collective duty of society) and then make the application of more stringent laws to control crime. Without doubt, the law is a historic step in the cyber world. Learn all together do not deny that there is a need for changes in the Law on Information Technology to make more effective the fight against cybercrime. Let me conclude with a word of caution from school for legislation to be taken into account the provisions of cyber laws are not made in a rigorous manner, which could slow the growth of the industry and be counterproductive.