Combating Cyber Crimes-Law & Enforcement in India
Combating Cyber Crimes-Law & Enforcement in India
Combating Cyber Crimes-Law & Enforcement in India
Computer Crime, ECrime, Hi-Tech Crime or Electronic Crime is where a computer is the target of a crime or is the means adopted to commit a crime. Most of these crimes are not new. Criminals simply devise different ways to undertake standard criminal activities such as fraud, theft, blackmail, forgery, and embezzlement using the new medium, often involving the Internet
Credit card frauds Cyber pornography Sale of illegal articles-narcotics, weapons, wildlife Online gambling Intellectual Property crimessoftware piracy, copyright infringement, trademarks violations, theft of computer source code Email spoofing Forgery Defamation Cyber terrorism
Computer Viruses
Viruses A computer virus is a computer program that can infect other computer programs by modifying them in such a way as to include a (possibly evolved) copy of it. Note that a program does not have to perform outright damage (such as deleting or corrupting files) in order to be called a "virus".
Viruses
File
infectors
Downloads, copies, extracts any data Introduces or causes to be introduced any viruses or contaminant Damages or causes to be damaged any computer resource
Destroy, alter, delete, add, modify or rearrange Change the format of a file
Preventing normal continuance of
Denial of service attacks Rogue Websites, Search Engines, Insiders providing vulnerabilities
Charges the services availed by a person to the account of another person by tampering or manipulating any computer resource
Liable to pay damages not exceeding Rs. One crore to the affected party Investigation by ADJUDICATING OFFICER Powers of a civil court
Most important asset of software companies Computer Source Code" means the listing of programmes, computer commands, design and layout Ingredients
Knowledge or intention Concealment, destruction, alteration computer source code required to be kept or maintained by law imprisonment up to three years and / or fine up to Rs. 2 lakh
Punishment
Punishment
imprisonment up to three years, and / or fine up to Rs. 2 lakh
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Ingredients
Publishing or transmitting or causing to be published in the electronic form, Obscene material
Punishment
On first conviction imprisonment of either description up to five years and fine up to Rs. 1 lakh On subsequent conviction imprisonment of either description up to ten years and fine up to Rs. 2 lakh
Ingredients
Controller issues order to Government agency to intercept any information transmitted through any computer resource. Order is issued in the interest of the
sovereignty or integrity of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order or preventing incitement for commission of a cognizable offence
Person in charge of the computer resource fails to extend all facilities and technical assistance to decrypt the information-punishment upto 7 years.
Ingredients
Securing unauthorised access or attempting to secure unauthorised access to protected system
Punishment
Imprisonment up to 10 years and fine
Web-Jacking
Online sale of Arms
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