KHAIRPUR MIR’S

Department of Business Administration

Presentation’s Hardcopy

Cyber Crime
Subject

Introduction to Computers
By

Shakeel Ahmed Abbasi

Roll no

360

BBA (Part- I)
Submitted to
Sir Zameer Ahmed Dayo

Academic year 2010 _

2011
Semerter I
SUBMITTED IN THE SUPPORT OF THE DEGREE OF
BBA

Cyber Crime
Introduction to Cyber Crime
Computer crime, or cybercrime, refers to any crime that involves
a computer and a network.The computer may have been used in the
commission of a crime, or it may be the target.

In our modern time the technology is growing rapidly and so bringing new
crimes. Those crimes are computer crimes where crimes are committed with
computers. It was found that computer crimes started in the early 1970’s and
have increase since then due more people are depending on computers
nowadays, There are many types of crimes done on the computer and the most
common crimes committed on the internet are hacking, robbery, assault with
the use of virus, blackmail, fraud, forgery and piracy. Computer crimes can be
done against the government, companies, and even everyday people and also
computer crimes can be done by almost everyone who have access to
computers doesn’t matter if they are aged people or even a primary student.

Computer crime is known by lots of different

names, including cybercrime, e-crime, or
electronic crime. All of these are crimes where
computers or networks are used or attacked.
These electronic crimes are being used to steal
identities and huge sums of money. Many
traditional crimes such as theft, blackmail,
forgery, embezzlement and fraud today are all
conducted on the internet.

Types of Cyber Crime

• HACKING
• SOFTWARE PIRACY
• CREDIT CARD FRAUD
• PHISHING
• SPOOFING

Cyber Crime
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 in simple terms means illegal intrusion into a computer system without
the permission of the computer owner/user.

SOFTWARE PIRACY
Theft of software through the illegal copying of genuine programs or the
counterfeiting and distribution of products intended to pass for the original.
Retail revenue losses world wide are ever increasing due to this crime Can be
done in various ways such as end user copying, hard disk loading,
Counterfeiting, Illegal downloads from the internet etc.

CREDIT CARD FRAUD

You simply have to type credit card number into www page off the vendor for
online transaction If electronic transactions are not secured the credit card
numbers can be stolen by the hackers who can misuse this card by
impersonating the credit card owner.

PHISHING
It is technique of pulling out confidential information from the bank/financial
institutional account holders by deceptive means.

Spoofing
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 computers on the network.

Cyber Crime
Hacking with Computer
Ingredients

Intention or Knowledge to cause wrongful loss or damage to the public or any

person –Destruction, deletion, alteration, diminishing value or utility or
injuriously affecting information residing in a computer resource
Section 66: Hacking with Computer

• Punishment imprisonment up to three years, and / or fine up to Rs.2 Lakh

• Cognizable, Non Bail able