This document discusses various types of cyber crimes and provides case studies of cyber crimes in India. It summarizes a case study of cyber crimes related to 2008 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad where terrorists misused unsecured WiFi routers to send threatening emails. It also summarizes a case study where the website of BSNL was hacked by Anonymous India to protest the arrest of individuals under Section 66A of India's IT Act for social media posts. The document concludes that cyber crimes continue to increase in India despite the stringent IT Act.

1. Cyber Crime

2. CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• TYPE OF CYBER CRIME
• AHEMDABAD BLAST CASE STUDY
• BSNL TELECOM CASE STUDY
• CONCLUSION

3. Cyber Crime:• Computer Crime, E-Crime, 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 .

4. Types of Cyber Crimes
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Credit card frauds
Cyber pornography
Online gambling
software piracy, copyright
Email spoofing
Forgery
Phishing
Cyber terrorism
Salami attacks
Defamation
Cyber stalking

5. Ahemdabad Bomb Blast Case Study
• First Mail was sent on 26th Jully,2008 from Email Id
alarbi_gujarat@yahoo.com from IP Address.
210.211.133.200 which traced to Kenneth Hawood’s
House at Navi Bombay.
• His Unsecured WIFI router was misused by terrorists to
send terror mail from his router.
• As log system is disabled, we were unable to find out the
details of the MAC address of the culprit.

6. Ahemdabad Bomb Blast Case Study
• Second Mail was sent on 31st July,2008 from
alarbi_gujarat@yahoo.com from IP Address:
202.160.162.179 which traced out to Medical College at
Vaghodiya,Baroda,Gujarat India.
• It was little bit difficult to trace this mail as the mail has
been sent using proxy server & fake mail script but finally
I traced out the original IP address.

7. Ahemdabad Bomb Blast Case Study
• Third Mail was sent on 23rd August,2008 from
alarbi.alhindi@gmail.com from IP address:
121.243.206.151 which traced to Khalsa College at
Bombay.
• Again Unsecured WIFI router was misused to send an
email.
• Forth Mail was sent on 13th September,2008 from
al_arbi_delhi@yahoo.com which traced to Kamran
Power Limited at Bombay. In this case also WIFI router
was misused to send the threatening mail.

8. BSNL Telecom Case Study
• The Homepage of BSNL ( Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited )
http://www.bsnl.co.in/ was hacked at 12/12/12 by
hacking group Anonymous.
• The website's homepage was hacked saying,
• " Hacked by Anonymous India, support Aseem trivedi
(cartoonist) and alok dixit on the hunger strike, remove
IT Act 66a, databases of all 250 bsnl site has been
deleted.............Do not think of BACKUP"
• with a images of Mr. Aseem while he was arrested by
Police.

9. BSNL Telecom Case Study

10. Why Anonymous Hack BSNL ?
• Reason 1 : in November two girls - Shaheen Dhada and Rinu
Shrinivasan - were arrested for posting comments made by
them on Facebook against Maharashtra Navnirman ShivSena
chief Raj Thackeray. This arrest was under Section 66A of IT
Act.
• Reason 2 : Its an old reason , Against Censorship ! Few days
back The Web site of Communication and Information
Technology Minister Kapil Sibal was also hacked by
Anonymous India for same reason.

11. What is Section 66A of IT Act ?
• According to Indian Laws, Section 66A of IT Act is Punishment
for sending offensive messages through communication
service –
• 1.) any person who sends, by means of a computer resource
or a communication device.
• 2.) any information that is grossly offensive or has menacing
character or any information which he knows to be false, but
for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger,
obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity,
hatred or ill will, persistently by making use of such computer
resource or a communication device.

12. What is Section 66A of IT Act ?
• any electronic mail or electronic mail message for the
purpose of causing annoyance or inconvenience or to deceive
or to mislead the addressee or recipient about the origin of
such message.
• shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to three years and with fine.

13. Conclusion
• As we can see that there where so many cyber crimes
happening in India before the amendment of information
technology act the rate of crime have not stopped nor it have
come down but it is reaching its high.
• We have try to find out various reasons that despite of such a
tight act and high penalties and punishments what are the
lope holes in the act which is blocking the proper
implementation of such a force full act.

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