A True Cyber World
By
PUNEET NAGPAL
Master of Science Cyber Law and Information Security (IIIT-Allahabad)
We are very much known to the words Crime and Criminals. But not aware of their ways of doing such activities that are not acceptable in the society. Criminals have sharp minds and change their tools and techniques but not Targets. As we know the well known targets are:-
Government and Society. Whenever any Crime is detected there is involvement of Public , Police is well defined . Police is to protect the suffered public by various Anti-Social elements.
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They do the anti-social activities by using the new technology. They target their victim through Internet and attack on them by using the same technology. This means Criminals are very much attracted towards Computers and Internet. They are turned into the Cyber Crimes rather than General ones.
Cyber Crimes are those in which Computers are used as a tool , target or both. And the people who are associated with such activities are known as Cyber Criminals. There are some points discussed as follows that How criminals are using to Computer and Internet for their criminal activities :-

  1. They are making secure communication with their followers by the use of Encryption techniques
  2. They are attacking on Government and Private targets using web defacement techniques
  3. They are transmitting pornographic matter over Internet
  4. They are stealing bank-accounts and use the money for Cyber wars and other activities
  5. They are hijacking  victims e-mail accounts and extort them
  6. They are masking themselves by using web masking or spoofing
  7. They hack into target computer and control it remotely using RAT’s
  8. They are writing malicious codes to disrupting the target networks
  9. They are using mirrored websites to make the client fool and gather information what they want
  10. They are doing the e-mail frauds to capture e-mail accounts (Lottery , Adoption and Kick-Back )
  11. They are triggering their followers by using well-known chat rooms

In this way we can say that the turned path is very sensitive matter. As  the Crime rate is increasing we have to be alert and take some Cyber precautions to fight against these Cyber Attacks.

Message to Cyber Engineers:-  2
We are Cyber Engineers. Our motive is not to be enter into the criminal world , we have to stop them & it depends upon our thinking only either offensive or defensive.

Classes of computer criminals :à 3
Whitehat                                                                                               Blackhat
Always work for defense purpose.                              Always work for offence purpose.
Geryhat                                                                                            Suicide Criminals
Depends upon Situation they turn                                   Love to do suicide crimes and don’t       
either into whitehat or blackhat                                       feel to face 30 years in jail        

Internet Laws :- 4
We are thankful to the Governments and Intelligence Investigation Agencies because they are developing are trying to catch and prevent cyber crimes by making Laws and Government policies to slow down the crimes. Internet Criminals becomes weak before these Laws. Our Government has established Cyber Crime Investigation Cells and Cyber Courts to handle Cyber Crime Cases.
On Oct 17th 2000 The Information Technology Act was passed. It covers the Crimes related to the Information Technology. It covers the chapters for both Civil and Criminal Offences.
Amendments were included as per the crime rate increased. Once Amended in year 2008till its commencement. Some of the Sections are also Included from Indian penal code, Indian Evidence Act, RBI Act, Bankers Book of Evidence Act.
Cyber Crime – A Problem
The Cyber Crime is a serious Issue. Even the amendments have done in IPC and IT ACT but we cannot read the mindset of a person that what he wants to do in the field of Cyber Crime or any other General Crime.
Nothing in this world is perfect and 100 % Security is also not possible
So how can we protect us from the Criminal world?? The only solution is that we gain more and more theoretical as well as practical knowledge regarding Cyber Crimes to stop them (Positive thinking is must to stop and negative thinking is to learn that up to what limit a Cyber Criminal can make his/her mind to commit Cyber Crime)
Real World Cases:-
Web Defacement, Online Illegal sale of articals ,Music Piracy ,Hacking , Financial Crimes, Social Networking Websites Fake Profiles ,Pornography (Start from small Images to High end Graphic Videos) – A serious Crime , Phishing and Vishing ,Credit- Card Fraud ,ATM Skimming
E-mail attack (Fraud , Bombing , Spoofing , Hijacking -Extortion ) ,Software Piracy ,Online Gambling (Not An issue in Some Countries but Banned in India) ,Bluetooth Control using RATS
etc etc.