CYBER CRIMES AND LAW

IN INDIA
Submitted to Mrs. PLL Annapurna, center for communication

Presented by-
Anjali Bhatt -11
Harshita Agarwal-24
Ritesh Jain-45
What Is Cyber Crime ?
Any criminal activity that uses a computer either
instrumentally , target or means for perpetuating
further crimes comes within the ambit of cyber
crimes.
A generalized definition of cyber crime may be,
“unlawful 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 Generic
Term 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 business
activities 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, spam
and money transaction using the online banking
services.
EXAMPLES OF DATA THEFT
• In June, 2006, Nadeem Kashmiri, an employee at
HSBC’s call center in Bangalore, sold the customer
credit card information to a group of scamsters who
used the information to siphon off nearly Rs 1.8
crores from bank accounts of UK based customers.
• An Indian engineer and former Intel employee,
Bbishwasmohan Pani has been charged as stealing
secret information from Intel for its new employer
and Intel’s rival advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT,
2000
• The Information Technology Act 2000 came into force
in India on 17 October 2000. It extends to whole 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 by
any person irrespective of his nationality, if such act
involves a computer, computer system or network
located in India.
POSSIBLE RELIEFS TO A CYBER CRIME
VICTIM- 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 and criminal
remedies.
• In civil remedies , injunction and restraint orders , blocking of
websites, may be sought, together with damages, delivery up of
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 non
cognisable, a complaint should be filed with metropolitan
magistrate
• For certain offences, both civil and criminal remedies may be
available to the victim
ANALYSIS
The statistics that have been obtained and reported
about demonstrate the serious internet crimes in the
world.
Just the “phishing” emails produce one billion dollars
for their perpetrators. In a FBI survey in early 2004,
90% of the 500 companies surveyed reported a
security 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. Only
2% 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 misuse
of 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 the
increase in technology.
CASE STUDY
OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF MAHARASTRA GOVERNMENT
HACKED

MUMBAI, 20 September 2007 — IT experts were trying yesterday to

restore the official website of the government of Maharashtra, which was
hacked in the early hours of Tuesday.
• Rakesh Maria, joint commissioner of police, said that the state’s IT
officials lodged a formal complaint with the Cyber Crime Branch police on
Tuesday. He added that the hackers would be tracked down. Yesterday the
website, http://www.maharashtragovernment.in, remained blocked.
• Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister R.R. Patil confirmed that the
Maharashtra government website had been hacked. He added that the
state government would seek the help of IT and the Cyber Crime Branch
to investigate the hacking.
CASE STUDY
• “We have taken a serious view of this hacking, and if need be the government
would even go further and seek the help of private IT experts. 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 other topics. IT
experts working on restoring the website told Arab News that they fear that
the hackers may have destroyed all of the website’s contents.
• According to sources, the hackers may be from Washington. IT experts said
that the hackers had identified themselves as “Hackers 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’s IT department, the official website has been
affected by viruses on several 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 to
guard 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????
THANK YOU