Cyber Crimes and Law in India

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CYBER CRIMES AND LAW

IN INDIA

Presented by-

Anjali Bhatt -11Harshita Agarwal-24

Ritesh Jain-45

Submitted to Mrs. PLL Annapurna, center for communication



What Is Cyber Crime ?

Any criminal activity that uses a computer either

instrumentally , target or means for perpetuatingfurther crimes comes within the ambit of cyber

crimes.

A generalized definition of cyber crime may be,

³unlawful acts where in the computer is used either as a tool or target or both.´



What Is Cyber Law ?� Cyber Law is the System Of Regulations for the

Electronic usage of the Internet

� Simply speaking Electronic Cyber Law is the GenericTerm which refers to all legal and regulatory aspects

of the internet, world transaction system and

electronic commerce.



The Need Of Cyber Law At Present

� Cyber laws are meant to set the definite pattern, some

rules and guidelines that defined certain businessactivities going on through internet legal and certain

illegal and hence punishable.

� Due to anonymous nature of the internet, it is

possible to engage into a variety of Criminal



The Need Of Cyber Law At Present

� activities grossly misusing this aspect of the internet

to perpetuate crime especially in e-commerce, spamand money transaction using the online banking

services.



EXAMPLES OF DATATHEFT

� In June, 2006, Nadeem Kashmiri, an employee atHSBC¶s call center in Bangalore, sold the customer

credit card information to a group of scamsters whoused the information to siphon off nearly Rs 1.8crores from bank accounts of UK based customers.

� An Indian engineer and former Intel employee,

Bbishwasmohan Pani has been charged as stealingsecret information from Intel for its new employer and Intel¶s rival advanced Micro Devices (AMD).



THE INFORMATIONTECHNOLOGYACT, 2000� The Information Technology Act 2000 came into

force in India on 17 October 2000. It extends towhole of India and also applies to any offence or contraventions committed outside India by any person (s 1(2),IT Act 2000).

� According to s 75 of the Act, the Act applies to any

offence or contravention committed outside India byany person irrespective of his nationality, if such actinvolves a computer, computer system or network located in India.



POSSIBLE RELIEFS TO A CYBER CRIMEVICTIM- STRATEGY ADOPTION� A victim of cybercrime needs to immediately report the matter

to his local police station and to the nearest cybercrime cell

� Depending on the nature of crime there may be civil andcriminal remedies.� In civil remedies , injunction and restraint orders , blocking of

websites, may be sought, together with damages, delivery upof infringing matter and/or account for profits.

� In criminal remedies, a cybercrime case will be registered by police if the offence is cognisable and if the same is noncognisable, a complaint should be filed with metropolitanmagistrate

� For certain offences, both civil and criminal remedies may beavailable to the victim



ANALYSIS

The statistics that have been obtained and reported

about demonstrate the serious internet crimes in theworld.

Just the ³phishing´ emails produce one billion dollars

for their perpetrators. In a FBI survey in early 2004,

90% of the 500 companies surveyed reported asecurity breach and 80% of those suffered a financial

loss.



ANALYSIS

A national statistic in 2003 stated that four billion

dollars in credit card fraud are lost each year. Only2% of credit card transactions take place over the

Internet but 50% of the four billion, are from

transactions online.

All these findings are just an illustration of the misuseof the internet and a reason why internet crime has to

be slowed down.



As we can clearly see from the above graph the yearly amount of cyber/internet fraud is increasing day by day and a major reason being theincrease in technology.



CASE STUDY

OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF MAHARASTRA GOVERNMENT

HACKED

MUMBAI, 20 September 2007 ² IT experts were trying yesterday torestore the official website of the government of Maharashtra, which was hacked in the early hours of Tuesday.

� R akesh Maria, joint commissioner of police, said that the state¶s ITofficials lodged a formal complaint with the Cyber Crime Branchpolice on Tuesday. He added that the hackers would be trackeddown. Yesterday the website, http://www.maharashtragovernment.in, remained blocked.

� Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister R .R . Patil confirmed thatthe Maharashtra government website had been hacked. He addedthat the state government would seek the help of IT and the CyberCrime Branch to investigate the hacking.



CASE STUDY

� ³W e have taken a serious view of this hacking, and if need be thegovernment would even go further and seek the help of private ITexperts. Discussions are in progress between the officials of the IT

Department and experts,´ Patil added.� The state government website contains detailed information about

government departments, circulars, reports, and several othertopics. IT experts working on restoring the website told Arab Newsthat they fear that the hackers may have destroyed all of the website¶s contents.

� According to sources, the hackers may be from

W ashington. ITexperts said that the hackers had identified themselves as ³Hackers

Cool Al-Jazeera´ and claimed they were based in Saudi Arabia. They added that this might be a red herring to throw investigators off their trail . According to a senior official from the state government¶sIT department, the official website has been affected by viruses onseveral occasions in the past, but was never hacked. The official

added that the website had no firewall.



SUGGESTIONS

� To prevent cyber stalking avoid disclosing any

information pertaining to one self.� Always avoid sending any photograph online

particularly to strangers and chat friends as there have

been incidents of misuse of the photographs.

� Always use latest and up date anti virus software toguard against virus attacks.



SUGGESTIONS

� Never send your credit card number to any site that is

not secured, to guard against frauds.� Web site owners should watch traffic and check any

irregularity on the site.



METHODOLOGY

� www.google.com

� www.wikipedia.com� www.dnaindia.com

� www.maharashtragovernment.com

� www.cyberlawtimes.com

� www.genderIT.org� National Information Seminar New Delhi 2009.



ANY QUESTIONS????



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