Syllabus

UNIT 1: Introduction to Cybercrime

UNIT 2: Cyber offenses
UNIT 3: Tools and method used in Cybercrime
UNIT 4: Phishing and identity theft
UNIT 5: Understanding Computer Forensics

TEXT BOOK:
Cyber Security by Nina Godbole,Sunit Belapure, Wiley
India, 1st edition copyright 2011 reprint 2013.
REFERENCES:
Computer Forensics and Cyber Crime An Introduction by
Marjie T. Britz ,Pearson publication, 2nd edition.
 Unit 1: Learning Objectives
End of this unit, you will be able to:
• Learn what cybercrime is and appreciate
the importance of cybercrime as a topic.
• Understand the different types cybercrime.
• Understand the difference between
cybercrime and cyber fraud.
• Learn about different types of cybercriminals
and the motives behind them
• Get an overview of cybercrime scenario in
India and global
• Understand legal perspective on cybercrime.
 Unit 2: Learning Objectives
• Understand different types of cyber attacks.
• Get an overview of the steps involved in planning
cybercrime
• Understand tools used for gathering
information about the target
• Get an overview on social engineering
• Learn about the role of cybercafe in cybercrime
• Understand what is cyber stalking
• Learn about botnet and attack vector
• Get an overview of cloud computing
 Unit 3: Learning Objectives
• Proxy servers and anonymizers
• Password cracking
• Key loggers and spywares
• Overview of virus and worms
• Trojan horses and backdoors
• Steganography
• DoS attacks
• SQL injection
 Unit 4: Learning Objectives
• Phishing and its techniques
• Identity theft
 Unit 5: Learning Objectives
• Cyber laws
• Legal perspectives
 Course Outcomes
On Successful completion of the course,
the students will be able to:

CO1. Explain the cybercrime terminologies

CO2. Describe Cyber offenses and Botnets
CO3.Illustrate Tools and Methods used on
Cybercrime
CO4. Explain Phishing and Identity Theft
CO5. Justify the need of computer forensics
 1.1 INTRODUCTION
•The internet in India is growing rapidly. It has given rise to
new opportunities in every field we can think of be it
entertainment, business, sports or education.

•There’re two sides to a coin. Internet also has it’s own

disadvantages is Cyber crime- illegal activity committed on
the internet.
 1.2 DEFINING CYBER CRIME
 Crime committed using a computer and the
internet to steal data or information.
 Illegal imports.
 Malicious programs.
 Cybercrime
• Cybercrime is not a new phenomena
• The first recorded cybercrime took place in the year 1820.
• In 1820, Joseph Marie Jacquard, a textile
manufacturer in France, produced the loom. This
device allowed the repetition of a series of steps in the
weaving of special fabrics. This resulted in a fear
amongst Jacquard's employees that their traditional
employment and livelihood were being threatened.
They committed acts of sabotage to discourage
Jacquard from further use of the new technology. This
is the first recorded cyber crime!
 Alternative definitions for
cybercrime
• Any illegal act where a special knowledge
computer technology is essential for of
perpetration, investigation or prosecution its
• Any traditional crime that has acquired a new
dimension or order of magnitude through the aid of a
computer, and abuses that have come into being
because of computers
• Any financial dishonesty that takes place in a computer
environment.
• Any threats to the computer itself, such as theft of
hardware or software, sabotage and demands for
ransom
 Another definition
• “Cybercrime (computer crime) is any
behavior, directed illegal means
operations, that target the security ofofcomputer
by
systems and the data processedelectronic
by them”.
• Hence cybercrime can sometimes be called as
computer-related crime, computer crime, E-
crime, Internet crime, High-tech crime….
 Cybercrime specifically
can be defined
in number of ways…
• A crime committed using a computer and the internet to steal
a person’s identity(identity theft) or sell contraband or stalk
victims or disrupt operations with malevolent programs.
• Crimes completed either on or with a computer
• Any illegal activity through the Internet or on the computer.
• All criminal activities done using the medium of computers,
the Internet, cyberspace and the WWW.
 further
• Cybercrime to the act of performing a criminal act using
cyberspace
refers as communication vehicle.
• Two types of attacks are common:
– Techno- crime : Active attack
• Techno Crime is the term used by law enforcement agencies to denote criminal activity
which uses (computer) technology, not as a tool to commit the crime, but as the subject
of the crime itself. Techno Crime is usually pre-meditated and results in the deletion,
corruption, alteration, theft or copying of data on an organization's systems.
• Techno Criminals will usually probe their prey system for weaknesses and will almost
always leave an electronic 'calling card' to ensure that their pseudonym identity is known.
– Techno – vandalism: Passive attack
• Techno Vandalism is a term used to describe a hacker or cracker who breaks into
a computer system with the sole intent of defacing and or destroying its contents.
• Techno Vandals can deploy 'sniffers' on the Internet to locate soft (insecure)
targets and then execute a range of commands using a variety of protocols
towards a range of ports. If this sounds complex - it is! The best weapon against such
attacks is a firewall which will hide and disguise your organization's presence on the
Internet.
 1.3 Cybercrime and information
security

• Lack of information security give rise to cybercrime

• Cybersecurity: means protecting information,
equipment, devices, computer, computer resource,
communication device and information stored therein from
unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption,
modification or destruction.
 Challenges for securing data in business
perspective
• Cybercrime occupy an important space in information
security due to their impact.
• Most organizations do not incorporate the cost of the vast
majority of computer security incidents into their accounting
• The difficulty in attaching a quantifiable monetary value to
the corporate data and yet corporate data get stolen/lost
• Financial loses may not be detected by the victimized
organization in case of Insider attacks : such as leaking
customer data
Cybercrime trends over years
 1.4 Who are Cybercriminals?
• Are those who conduct acts such as:
– Credit card fraud
– Cyberstalking
– Defaming another online
– Gaining unauthorized access to computer systems
– Ignoring copyrights
– Software licensing and trademark protection
– Overriding encryption to make illegal copies
– Software piracy
– Stealing another’s identity to perform criminal acts
 Categorization of Cybercriminals
• Type 1: Cybercriminals- hungry for recognition
– Hobby hackers
• A person who enjoys exploring the limits of what is
possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. May modify
hardware/ software
– IT professional(social engineering):
• Ethical hacker
– Politically motivated hackers :
• promotes the objectives of individuals, groups or nations supporting a
variety of causes such as : Anti globalization, transnational conflicts and
protest
– Terrorist organizations
• Cyberterrorism
• Use the internet attacks in terrorist activity
• Large scale disruption of computer
networks ,
Type 2: Cybercriminals- not interested in
recognition
– Financially motivated hackers
• Make money from cyber attacks
• Bots-for-hire : fraud through phishing, information theft, spam
and extortion
– State-sponsored hacking
• Hacktivists
• Extremely professional groups working for governments
• Have ability to worm into the networks of the media, major
corporations, defense departments
Type 3: Cybercriminals- the
insiders
– Disgruntled or former employees seeking
revenge
– Competing companies using employees to
gain economic advantage through damage
and/ or theft.
 Motives behind cybercrime

• Greed
• Desire to gain power
• Publicity
• Desire for revenge
• A sense of adventure
• Looking for thrill to access forbidden
information
• Destructive mindset
• Desire to sell network security services
1.5 Classification of cybercrimes

1. Cybercrime against an individual

2. Cybercrime against property
3. Cybercrime against organization
4. Cybercrime against Society
5. Crimes emanating from Usenet
newsgroup
1. Cybercrime against an individual
• Electronic mail spoofing and other online frauds
• Phishing, spear phishing
• spamming
• Cyberdefamation
• Cyberstalking and harassment
• Computer sabotage
• Password sniffing
 2.Cybercrime against property
• Credit card frauds
• Intellectual property( IP) crimes
• Internet time theft
3.Cybercrime against organization
• Unauthorized accessing of computer
• Password sniffing
• Denial-of-service attacks
• Virus attack/dissemination of viruses
• E-Mail bombing/mail bombs
• Salami attack/ Salami technique
• Logic bomb
• Trojan Horse
• Data diddling
• Industrial spying/ industrial espionage
• Computer network intrusions
• Software piracy
4.Cybercrime against Society
• Forgery
• Cyber terrorism
• Web jacking
 5.Crimes emanating from Usenet
newsgroup

• Usenet groups may carry very offensive,

harmful, inaccurate material
• Postings that have been mislabeled or are
deceptive in another way
• Hence service at your own risk
 History of Usenet groups
• In 1979 it was developed by two graduate students
from Duke University in North Carolina (UNC) as a
network that allowed users to exchange quantities of
information too large for mailboxes
• Usenet was designed to facilitate textual exchanges
between scholars.
• Slowly, the network structure adapted to allow the
exchange of larger files such as videos or images.
 Criminal activity on Oracle USENET Newsgroups
• This interesting SearchOracle article on Oracle security bloopers, we see
the risks with engaging the unsavory inhabitants of the Oracle USENET
newsgroup, a forum laced with profanity, according to this note, criminal
Oracle hackers:
• “I subscribe to several Usenet groups so I can keep my skills current.
Well, a few years ago a DBA needed some assistance and posted a
question in which he shared his tnsnames.ora file and wondered why he
could not connect to SQL*Plus with the following syntax:
• sqlplus system/SecurePswd@prod
•
Almost immediately several people connected to this person’s
production system and was able to fish around the
system. Numerous people emailed the DBA back and pointed out that he
just broadcasted to the world his production connection string and
password. How crazy is that?”
 E-Mail Spoofing
• E-mail spoofing is the forgery of an e-mail header so that the
message appears to have originated from someone or
somewhere other than the actual source.
• To send spoofed e-mail, senders insert commands in headers
that will alter message information.
• It is possible to send a message that appears to be from
anyone, anywhere, saying whatever the sender wants it to say.
• Thus, someone could send spoofed e-mail that appears to be
from you with a message that you didn't write.
• Classic examples of senders who might prefer to disguise the
source of the e-mail include a sender reporting mistreatment by
a spouse to a welfare agency.
 E-Mail Spoofing
• Although most spoofed e-mail falls into the "nuisance"
category and requires little action other than deletion, the
more malicious varieties can cause serious problems and
security risks.
• For example, spoofed e-mail may purport to be from
someone in a position of authority, asking for sensitive data,
such as passwords, credit card numbers, or other personal
information -- any of which can be used for a variety of
criminal purposes.
• The Bank of America, eBay, and Wells Fargo are among
the companies recently spoofed in mass spam mailings.
• One type of e-mail spoofing, self-sending spam, involves
messages that appear to be both to and from the recipient.
 Spamming
• People who create electronic spam : spammers
• Spam is abuse of electronic messaging systems to
send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately
• Spamming may be
– E-Mail Spam
– Instant messaging spam
– Usenet group spam
– Web search engine spam
– Spam in blogs, wiki spam
– Online classified ads spam
– Mobile phone messaging spam
– Internet forum spam
– Junk fax spam
– Social networking spam
……..
 Spamming
• Spamming is difficult to control
• Advertisers have no operating costs beyond
the management of their mailing lists
• It is difficult to hold senders accountable
for their mass mailings
• Spammers are numerous
 Search engine spamming
• Alteration or creation of a document with the
intent to deceive an electronic catalog or a
filing system
• some web authors use “subversive
techniques” to ensure that their site
appears more frequently or higher
number
in returned search results.
• remedy: permanently exclude from the
search index
 Avoid the following web publishing
techniques:
• Repeating keywords
• Use of keywords that do not relate to the content on the
site
• Use of fast meta refresh
– change to the new page in few seconds.
• Redirection
• IP cloaking:
– including related links, information, and terms.
• Use of colored text on the same color background
• Tiny text usage
• Duplication of pages with different URLs
• Hidden links
Cyber defamation
 Cyber defamation
• The tort of cyber defamation is considered to be the act
of defaming, insulting, offending or otherwise causing
harm through false statements pertaining to an
individual in cyberspace.
•Example: someone publishes
defamatory matter about someone
on a website
or sends an E-mail containing
defamatory information
to all friends of that person.
It may amount to defamation when-
• If imputation to a deceased person would harm the
reputation of that person, and is intended to be hurtful to the
feelings of his family or other near relatives
• An imputation is made concerning a company or an
association or collection of people as such.
• An imputation in the form of an alternative or expressed
ironically
• An imputation that directly or indirectly, in the estimation
of others, lowers the moral or intellectual character of that
person, or lowers the character of that person in respect of
his caste or of his calling, or lowers the credit of that
person.
Types of defamation
• Libel : written defamation
• Slander: oral defamation
• The plaintiff must have to show that the
defamatory statements were unlawful and
would indeed injure the person’s or
organization’s reputation.
• When failed to prove, the person who made
the allegations may still be held responsible
for defamation.
 Cyber defamation cases
• In first case of cyber defamation in India (14 dec 2009),
– the employee of a corporate defamed its reputation was sending
derogatory and defamatory emails against the company and its managing
director
– In this case the Court(delhi court) had restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory, defamatory, obscene, humiliating and
vulgar, abusive emails.
– The court passed as important ex-parte injunction.
• In another case, accused posted obscene, defamatory and
annoying message about a divorcee woman and also sent emails to the victim.
– The offender was traced and was held guilty of offences under section 469, 509 IPC
and 67 of IT Act, 2000.
• Other defamation cases:
– A malicious customer review by a competitor could destroy a small business.
– A false accusation of adultery on a social networking site could destroy
a marriage.
– An allegation that someone is a “crook” could be read by a potential employer
or
business partner
Internet Time Theft

• Occurs when an unauthorized person uses the

Internet hours paid for by another person
• Comes under hacking
• The person get access to someone else’s ISP user ID
and password, either by hacking or by gaining
access to it by illegal means
• And uses the internet without the other person’s
knowledge
• This theft can be identified when Internet time is
recharged often, despite infrequent usage.
• This comes under “identity theft”
Salami attack/ salami technique
• Are used for committing financial crimes.
• The alterations made are so insignificant that in a
single case it would go completely unnoticed.
• Example: a bank employee inserts a program,
into the bank’s serve, that deduces a small
amount from the account of every customer
every month,
• The unauthorized debit goes unnoticed by the
customers, but the employee will make a sizable
amount every month.
Salami attack: real life examples
• Small “shavings” for Big gains!
• The petrol pump fraud
Data diddling
• Data diddling involves changing data input in
a
computer.
• In other words, information is changed from the way it
should be entered by a person typing in the data.
• Usually, a virus that changes data or a programmer of the
database or application has pre-programmed it to be changed.
• For example, a person entering accounting may change
data to show their account, or that or a friend or family
member, is paid in full. By changing or failing to enter the
information, they are able to steal from the company.
• To deal with this type of crime, a company must
implement policies and internal controls.
• This may include performing regular audits, using
software with built-in features to combat such
problems, and supervising employees.
 Real life example:
Doodle me Diddle
• Electricity board in India have been victims to
data diddling programs inserted when private
parties computerized their systems.
 Forgery
• The act of forging something, especially the
unlawful act of counterfeiting a document or
object for the purposes of fraud or deception.
• Something that has been forged, especially a
document that has been copied or remade to look
like the original.
• Counterfeit currency notes, postage, revenue
stamps, marksheets, etc., can be forged using
sophisticated computers, printers and scanners.
 Real life case:
• Stamp Scam – a racket that flourished on
loopholes
Paper in the system

• Abdul Karim Telgi, the mastermind of the multi-crore

counterfeiting, printed fake stamp papers worth thousands of crores
of rupees using printing machines purchased illegally with the help
of some conniving officials of the Central Govt.’s Security Printing
Press (India Security Press) located in Nasik. These fake stamp
papers penetrated in more than 12 states through a widespread
network of vendors who sold the counterfeits without any fear and
earned hefty commissions.
• Amount swindled Rs. 172 crores
• Telgi is in jail serving his 13 plus 10 years term
 Web jacking
• This term is derived from the term hi jacking.
• In these kinds of offences the hacker
gains access and control over the web site of another.
• He may even change the information on the site.
• The first stage of this crime involves “password
sniffing”.
• The actual owner of the website does not have any
more control over what appears on that website
• This may be done for fulfilling political objectives or
for money
 Real life examples
• recently the site of MIT (Ministry of
Information Technology) was hacked by the
Pakistani hackers and some obscene matter was
placed therein.
• Further the site of Bombay crime branch was
also web jacked.
• Another case of web jacking is that of the
‘gold fish’ case. In this case the site was hacked
and the information pertaining to gold fish was
changed.
 Industrial spying/ Industrial
Espionage
• Industrial espionage is the covert and sometimes
illegal practice of investigating competitors to
gain a business advantage.
• The target of investigation might be a trade secret
such as a proprietary product specification or
formula, or information about business plans.
• In many cases, industrial spies are simply
seeking any data that their organization can
exploit to its advantage.
 Real life case
• A Chinese Trojan horse email campaign targeted some 140 senior
Israeli defense corporation employees (2013) involved in highly
classified, sensitive security projects.
• The email was made to appear as if it came from a known German
company that regularly works with the Israeli defense industry.
• However, it turned out to contain a Trojan horse, which, according to the
report, attempted to funnel information from the recipients' computers.
• The Trojan horse was noticed by computer defense systems and shut
down.

• The defense establishment then realized how many Israelis received

the email, and reportedly tracked the malicious program down to
Chinese defense industries.
• The incident led security companies to reiterate to employees
computer security guidelines.
 Hacking
Every act committed toward breaking into a
computer and/ or network is hacking.
Purpose
• Greed
• Power
• Publicity
• Revenge
• Adventure
• Desire to access forbidden information
• Destructive mindset
 History of hacking
• hacking is any technical effort to manipulate the normal behavior of
network connections and connected systems.
• A hacker is any person engaged in hacking.
• The term "hacking" historically referred to
technical work that constructive, clever was not
systems. necessarily related to
computer
• M.I.T. engineers in the 1950s and 1960s first popularized the term
and concept of hacking.
• the so-called "hacks" perpetrated by these hackers were intended to
be harmless technical experiments and fun learning activities.
• Later, outside of M.I.T., others began applying the term to less honorable
pursuits. for example, several hackers in the U.S. experimented with
methods to modify telephones for making free long-distance calls over the
phone network illegally.
• As computer networking and the Internet exploded in popularity, data
networks became by far the most common target of hackers and
hacking.
 Hacking vs. Cracking
• Malicious attacks on computer networks are
officially known as cracking ,
• while hacking truly applies only to activities
having good intentions.
• Most non-technical people fail to make this
distinction, however.
• Outside of academia, its extremely common to
see the term "hack" misused and be applied to
cracks as well.
 There are 3 types of modern
hackers
• Black Hats: Criminal Hackers.
– Possess desire to destruction
– Hack for personal monetary gains : Stealing credit
card information, transferring money from various
bank accounts to their own account, extort money
from corporate giant by threatening.
• White Hats: Ethical Hackers.
– Network Security Specialist.
• Grey Hats: Deals in both of the above (jack
of all trades, master of none).
 Real life case: Dec 2009 NASA
site hacked via SQL Injection
• Two NASA sites recently were hacked by an individual wanting to demonstrate
that the sites are susceptible to SQL injection.
• The websites for NASA's Instrument Systems and Technology Division and
Software Engineering Division were accessed by a researcher, who posted to his
blog screen shots taken during the hack.
• The researcher, using the alias "c0de.breaker," used SQL injection to hijack the
sites.
• SQL injection is an attack process where a hacker adds additional SQL code
commands to a page request and the web server then tries to execute those
commands within the backend database
• The NASA hack yielded the credentials of some 25 administrator accounts.
• The researcher also gained access to a web portal used for managing and
editing those websites.
• In this particular case, the researcher found the vulnerabilities, made NASA aware
of them, then published findings after the websites had been fixed.
• An attacker, however, could have tried to use that web server as an entry
point into other systems NASA might control or edit the content of the sites and
use them for drive-by downloads.
Nadya Suleman’s Website
Hacked, feb 2009
 The story..
• LOS ANGELES, CA – Octuplet mom Nadya Suleman
launched a website to solicit donations for her family, but it
was immediately hacked by a group of vigilante mothers!
• The website originally featured photos of all eight octuplets,
a thank you note from Suleman, images of children’s toys
and a large donation button for viewers to send money
through. Suleman also provided an address where people
can send items such as diapers and formula.
• Suleman was perhaps not prepared for the backlash she was
to receive, as the site was hacked and brought down within
hours. The original homepage was left up but defaced, as
seen in the screenshot.
• The site was tagged by the famous hacker group MOD,
also known as the Mothers of Disappointment. The
mysterious group has a history of attacking personal sites
they disapprove of, including Britney Spears when she
infamously hung dry her sons on a clothes line after a bath,
and Angelina Jolie for being Angelina Jolie.
• Weekly World News could not reach any members for
comment, however reporters did receive a short note from
an anonymous e-mail address:
• mod will not tolerate the selfish acts of bad parenting
we will remain true to our mission despite
any
setbacks
viva la
maternity (call your mother, she misses you)
• The site has since been restored, and Suleman’s PR
representative has stated they are now taking extra security
measures to arm against future attacks.
 Online frauds
• Fraud that is committed using the internet is “online fraud.” Online
fraud can involve financial fraud and identity theft.
• Online fraud comes in many forms.
– viruses that attack computers with the goal of retrieving personal
information, to email schemes that lure victims into wiring money to
fraudulent sources,
– “phishing” emails that purport to be from official entities (such as banks or
the Internal Revenue Service) that solicit personal information from victims to
be used to commit identity theft,
– to fraud on online auction sites (such as Ebay) where perpetrators sell
fictional goods.
– E-Mail spoofing to make the user to enter the personal information :
financial fraud
– Illegal intrusion: log-in to a computer illegally by having previously obtained
actual password. Creates a new identity fooling the computer that the hacker is
the genuine operator. Hacker commits innumerable number of frauds.
 Software piracy
• Theft software through the illegal
copying
of of genuine programs or the
counterfeiting and distribution of products
intended to pass for the original.
• End-user copying
• Hard disk loading with illicit means
• Counterfeiting
• Illegal downloads from internet
 Buying Pirated software have a lot to
lose:
• Getting untested software that may have
been copied thousands of times.
• Potentially contain hard-ware infecting
viruses
• No technical support in case of software
failure
• No warranty protection
• No legal right to use the product
 Computer sabotage

• Computer sabotage involves deliberate attacks intended to

disable computers or networks for the purpose of disrupting
commerce, education and recreation for personal gain,
committing espionage, or facilitating criminal conspiracy.
• Through viruses, worms, logic bombs
• Chernobyl virus
• The Chernobyl virus is a computer virus with a potentially devastating
payload that destroys all computer data when an infected file is
executed.,
• Y2K virus
– Y2K bug, also called Year 2000 bug or Millennium Bug, a
problem in the coding of computerized systems that was projected to
create havoc in computers and computer networks around the world
at the beginning of the year 2000
 E-mail bombing/mail bombs
• In Internet usage, an email bomb is a form of net
abuse consisting of sending huge volumes of email
to an address in an attempt to overflow the mailbox
or overwhelm the server where the email address is
hosted in a denial-of-service attack.
• Construct a computer to repeatedly send E-mail to a
specified person’s E-mail address.
• Can overwhelm the recipient’s personal account and
potentially shut down the entire system.
 Computer network intrusions
• An intrusion to computer network from any where in
the world and steal data, plant viruses, create
backdoors, insert trojan horse or change passwords
and user names.
• An intrusion detection system (IDS) inspects all
inbound and outbound network activity and identifies
suspicious patterns that may indicate a network or
system attack from someone attempting to break into
or compromise a system.
• The practice of strong password
 Password sniffing
• Password sniffers are programs that monitor and
record the name and password of network users as
they login, jeopardizing security at a site.
• through sniffers installed, anyone can impersonate an
authorized user and login to access restricted
documents.
 Credit card frauds

• Credit card fraud is a wide-ranging term for

theft and fraud committed using or involving a
payment card, such as a credit card or debit card,
as a fraudulent source of funds in a transaction.
• The purpose may be to obtain goods without
paying, or to obtain unauthorized funds from an
account.
• Credit card fraud is also an adjunct to identity
theft.
 Identity theft
• Identity theft is a fraud involving another person’s
identity for an illicit purpose.
• The criminal uses someone else’s identity for his/ her
own illegal purposes.
• Phishing and identity theft are related offenses
• Examples:
– Fraudulently obtaining credit
– Stealing money from victim’s bank account
– Using victim’s credit card number
– Establishing accounts with utility companies
– Renting an apartment
– Filing bankruptcy using the victim’s name
 Real life cases
Dr.Gerald Barnes
Gerald Barnbaum lost his pharmacist license after committing Medicaid
fraud. He stole the identity of Dr. Gerald Barnes and practiced medicine
under his name. A type 1 diabetic died under his care. “Dr. Barnes” even
worked as a staff physician for a center that gave exams to FBI agents.
He’s currently serving hard time.
Andrea Harris-Frazier
Margot Somerville lost her wallet on a trolley. Two years later she was
arrested. Andrea Harris-Frazier had defrauded several banks—using
Somerville’s identity—out of tens of thousands of dollars. The real crook
was caught.
Abraham Abdallah
A busboy named Abraham Abdallah got into the bank accounts of Steven
Spielberg and other famous people after tricking his victims via computer,
getting sufficient data to fake being their financial advisors— then calling
their banks.
 Cybercrime:
the legal perspective
• Cybercrime possess a mammoth challenge
• Computer crime: Criminal Justice Resource
Manual(1979)
– Any illegal act for which knowledge of computer
technology is essential for a successful prosecution.
• International legal aspects of computer crimes were
studied in 1983
– Encompasses any illegal act for which the knowledge of
computer technology is essential for its perpetration
Cybercrime:
the legal perspective
• The network context of cyber crime make it
one of the most globalized offenses of the
present and most modernized threats of the
future.
• Solution:
– Divide information system into segments
bordered by state boundaries.
• Not possible and unrealistic because of
globalization
– Or incorporate the legal system into an integrated
entity obliterating these state boundaries.
 Cybercrimes: An Indian
Perspective
• India has the fourth highest number of
internet users in the world.
• 45 million internet users in India
• 37% - in cybercafes
• 57% are between 18 and 35 years
• The Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000,
specifies the acts which are punishable. Since
the primary objective of this Act is to create
an enabling environment for commercial use
of I.T.
 Cybercrimes: An Indian
Perspective
• 217 cases were registered under IT Act
during the year 2007 as compared to 142
cases during the previous year (2006)
• Thereby reporting an increase of 52.8% in
2007 over 2006.
• 22.3% cases (49out of 217 cases) were
reported from Maharashtra followed by
Karnataka (40), Kerala (38) and Andhra
Pradesh and Rajasthan (16 each).
Cybercrimes: An Indian Perspective
 Incidence of Cyber Crimes in Cities

• 17 out of 35 mega cities did not report any case of Cyber Crime i.e,
neither under the IT Act nor under IPC Sections) during the year
2007.
• 17 mega cities have reported 118 cases under IT Act and 7
megacities reported 180 cases undervarious section of IPC.
• There was an increase of 32.6% (from 89 cases in 2006 to 118
cases in 2007) in cases under IT Act as compared to previous year
(2006),
• and an increase of 26.8% (from 142 cases in 2006 to 180 cases in
2007) of cases registered under various section of IPC
• Bengaluru (40), Pune (14) and Delhi (10) cities have reported high
incidence of cases (64 out of 118 cases) registered under IT Act,
accounting for more than half of the cases (54.2%) reported under
the Act.