Information Technology & Cyber Laws Notes / PSC Helper / Education

 Distributed DOS

A distributed denial of service (DoS) attack is accomplished by using the Internet to break into computers and using them to attack a network. 

There are three basic types of attack:

1. Consumption of scarce, limited, or non-renewable resources like NW bandwith, RAM, CPU time. Even power, cool air, or water can affect.
2. Destruction or Alteration of Configuration Information
3. Physical Destruction or Alteration of Network Components

Pornography

The literal mining of the term 'Pornography' is 'describing or showing sexual acts in order to cause sexual excitement through books, films, etc...'

This would include pornographic websites; pornographic material produced using computers and use of internet to download and transmit pornographic videos, pictures, photos, writings etc...

Forgery

Counterfeit currency notes, postage and revenue stamps, mark sheets etc... can be forged using sophisticated computers, printers and scanners. Also impersonate another person is considered forgery.

IPR Violations

These include software piracy, copyright infringement, trademarks violations, theft of computer source code, patent violations etc....

Cyber Terrorism

Targeted attacks on military installations, power plants, air traffic control, banks, trail traffic control, telecommunication networks are the most likely targets. Others like police, medical, fire and rescue systems etc...

Banking/Credit card Related crimes

Use of stolen card information or fake credit/debit cards are common

Bank employee can grab money using programs to deduce small amount of money from all customer accounts and adding it to own account also called as salami.

E-Commerce/Investment Frauds

Sales and Investment frauds. An offering that uses false or fraudulent claims to solicit investments or loans, or that provides for the purchase, use, or trade of forged or counterfeit securities.

Sale of illegal activities

This would include trade of narcotics, weapons and wildlife etc... by posting information on websites, auction websites, and bulletin boards or simply by using email communication.

Online Gambling

There are millions of websites hosted on servers abroad, that offer online gambling. In fact, it is believed that many of these websites are actually fronts for money laundering.

Defamation

Defamation can be understood as the International infringement of another person's right to his good name.

Cyber Defamation occurs when defamation takes place with the help of computers and/or the Internet

Cyber defamation is also called as Cyber Smearing

Cyber Stacking

Cyber stacking involves following a persons movements across the Internet by posting messages (sometimes threatening) on the bulletin boards frequented by the victim, entering the chat-rooms frequented by the victim, constantly bombarding the victim with emails etc...

Pedophiles

Pedophiles lure the children by distributing pornographic material, then they try to meet them for sex or to take their nude photographs including their engagement in sexual positions.

Identity Theft

Identity theft occurs when someone appropriates another's personal information without their knowledge to commit theft or fraud.

Identity theft is a vehicle for perpetrating other types of fraud schemes.

Data diddling

Data diddling involves changing data prior or during input into a computer.

In other words, information is changed from the way it should be entered by a person typing in the data, a virus that changes data, the programmer of the database or application, or anyone else involved in the process of having information stored in a computer file.

Theft of Internet Hours

Unauthorized use of Internet hours paid for by another person.

By gaining access to an organization's telephone switchboard (PBX) individuals or criminal organizations can obtain access to dial-in/dial-out circuits and then make their own calls or sell call time to third parties.

Theft of computer system (Hardware)

This type of offence involves the theft of a computer, some part(s) of a computer or a peripheral attached to the computer.