Cyber Law of India : Introduction In Simple way we can say that cyber crime is unlawful acts wherein the

computer is either a tool or a target or both Cyber crimes can involve criminal activities that are traditional in nature, such as theft, fraud, forgery, defamation and mischief, all of which are subject to the Indian Penal Code. The abuse of computers has also given birth to a gamut of new age crimes that are addressed by the Information Technology ct, !""". #e can categori$e Cyber crimes in two ways The Computer as a Target :-using a computer to attack other computers. e.g. Hacking, Virus !orm attacks, "#S attack etc. The computer as a weapon :-using a computer to commit real worl$ crimes. e.g. Cyber Terrorism, I%& 'iolations, Cre$it car$ frau$s, ()T frau$s, %ornography etc. Technical spects Technological a$'ancements ha'e create$ new

possibilities for criminal acti'ity, in particular the criminal misuse of information technologies such as a. %nauthori$ed access & 'ac(ing:) *ccess means gaining entry into, instructing or communicating with the logical, arithmetical, or memory function resources of a computer, computer system or computer network. +nauthori,e$ access woul$ therefore mean any kin$ of access without the permission of either the rightful owner or the person in charge of a computer, computer system or computer network. ('ery act committe$ towar$s breaking into a computer an$ or network is hacking. Hackers write or use rea$y-ma$e computer programs to attack the target computer. They possess the $esire to $estruct an$ they get the kick out of such $estruction. Some hackers hack for personal monetary gains, such as to stealing the cre$it car$ information, transferring money from 'arious bank accounts to their own account followe$ by with$rawal of money. -y hacking web ser'er taking control on another persons website calle$ as web hi.acking b. Trojan ttac(:)

The program that act like something useful but $o the things that are /uiet $amping. The programs of this kin$ are calle$ as Tro.ans. The name Tro.an Horse is popular. Tro.ans come in two parts, a Client part an$ a Ser'er part. !hen the 'ictim 0unknowingly1 runs the ser'er on its machine, the attacker will then use the Client to connect to the Ser'er an$ start using the tro.an. TC% I% protocol is the usual protocol type use$ for communications, but some functions of the tro.ans use the +"% protocol as well. c. *irus and #orm attac(:) * program that has capability to infect other programs an$ make copies of itself an$ sprea$ into other programs is calle$ 'irus. %rograms that multiply like 'iruses but sprea$ from computer to computer are calle$ as worms. d. +)mail & I,C related crimes:) -. +mail spoofing (mail spoofing refers to email that appears to ha'e been originate$ from one source when it was actually sent from another source.

!. +mail .pamming (mail 2spamming2 refers to sen$ing email to thousan$s an$ thousan$s of users - similar to a chain letter. 3 Sen$ing malicious co$es through email (-mails are use$ to sen$ 'iruses,Tro.ans etc through emails as an attachment or by sen$ing a link of website which on 'isiting $ownloa$s malicious co$e. /. +mail bombing (-mail 2bombing2 is characteri,e$ by abusers repeate$ly sen$ing an i$entical email message to a particular a$$ress. 4. Sen$ing threatening emails 5. "efamatory emails 6. (mail frau$s 7. I&C relate$ Three main ways to attack I&C are: 2'erbal879:7;< =>799?; attacks, clone attacks, an$ floo$ attacks. e. 0enial of .ervice attac(s:)

)loo$ing a computer resource with more re/uests than it can han$le. This causes the resource to crash thereby $enying access of ser'ice to authori,e$ users. +1amples include attempts to 2floo$2 a network, thereby pre'enting legitimate network traffic attempts to $isrupt connections between two machines, thereby pre'enting access to a ser'ice attempts to pre'ent a particular in$i'i$ual from accessing a ser'ice attempts to $isrupt ser'ice to a specific system or person.