CYBERCRIME ORIGIN

• At the beginning of the 1970s, criminals

regularly committed crimes via telephone
lines.
• The perpetrators were called Phreakers
HISTORY OF and discovered that the telephone system
in America functioned on the basis of
CYBERCRIME certain tones.
• They discovered the correct codes and
tones that would result in free long-
distance service.
 • They impersonated operators, dug through
Bell Telephone company garbage to find
secret information, and performed countless
experiments on early telephone hardware to
HISTORY OF learn how to exploit the system and steal
long-distance telephone time.
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• John Draper was a well-known Phreaker
who worked on it daily; he toured America
in his van and made use of public telephone
systems to make free calls.
 • The first recorded cyber crime took place in
the year 1820!
• In 1820, Joseph-Marie Jacquard, a textile
manufacturer in France, produced the loom.
This device allowed the repetition of a series
FIRST EVER of steps in the weaving of special fabrics.
• This resulted in a fear amongst Jacquard's
CYBERCRIME employees that their traditional employment
and livelihood were being threatened.
• They committed acts of sabotage to
discourage Jacquard from further use of the
new technology.
 • In 1986 the systems administrator at the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Clifford Stoll, noted certain irregularities in
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accounting data.
Stoll used what is called a “honeypot tactic,”
FEDERAL which lures a hacker back into a network
until enough data can be collected to track
LAW ON the intrusion to its source.
• Stoll’s effort paid off with the eventual arrest
CYBERCRIME of Markus Hess and several others located in
West Germany, who were stealing and
selling military information, passwords and
other data to the Soviet KGB.
 • The Berkeley lab intrusion was soon
followed by the
discovery of the Morris worm virus,
created by Robert Morris, a Cornell
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University student.
This worm damaged more than 6,000
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damages of $98 million.
ON • Congress responded by passing its first
hacking-related legislation, the
CYBERCRIME Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, i
n 1986
.
• The act made computer tampering a
felony crime punishable by significant jail
time and monetary fines.
 A PRESENTATION
BY
DR. PAVAN DUGGAL
ADVOCATE, SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CHAIRMAN, INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION
ON CYBER SECURITY LAW
PRESIDENT, CYBERLAWS.NET
CHIEF EXECUTIVE, ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE LAW HUB

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