Cyber

Law
 Cyber Law
Planning to hack into your enemy’s System???

Wait!!!

First have a look at the Cyber Laws…

 Contravention Vs Offence

While Contraventions are for minor and unintentional

activities, offences are considered its opposite.

Its possible that contraventions accused may faces civil

charge, but Offence committer will face criminal
prosecution.

Usually final punishment for contravention is to pay

damage or compensation but an offender might be liable
to pay fine or with imprisonment or both.
 Contravention Coverage

 Section 43 of the Act identifies ten different circumstances

of causing damage to computer, computer system or computer
network. It primarily takes into account all such
contraventions resulting from unauthorized access to
computer, computer system, computer network or computer
resources.

 Any person who commits any of the contraventions as

referred in section 43(a)-section 43(j) is liable to pay
compensation upto five crore rupees to the person so affected.
 Cyber Offence Under IT-Act

 Computer related offences, including

unauthorized access, disruption, damage,
destruction, etc. of computer resource.

This covers sections 65, 66, 66A, 66B, 66C, and 66D.
 Types of Cyber Crime

 Email Spoofing
 Cyber terrorism
 Cyber pornography
 Forgery and Card Frauds
 Phishing
 Defamation
 Cyber stalking (section 509 IPC)
 Sale of illegal articles-narcotics, weapons, wildlife
 Online gambling
 Intellectual Property crimes- software piracy,
copyright infringement, trademarks violations, theft of
computer
 Crime, Section & Punishment
Crime Section punishment

Hacking 43(a)(d)(e)(g)(i)(j) Sec. 66 – 3 years or/and five

lakhs

Denial of Service and 43(f) Sec.66 – 3 years or/and five

Distributed Denial of Service lakhs

Virus Attack 43(c) Sec.66 – 3 years or/and five

lakhs

Software Piracy 66-B Sec. 66-B – 3 years or/and 1

lakhs

Pornography 66-E,67,67-A, 67-B 66-E-3 years or/and 2 lakhs,

Including Child Pornography, 67-3 years or/and 5 lakhs,
Voyeurism etc 67A-5years or/and 10 lakhs,
67B-5 years or/and 10 lakhs

Phishing 66-D Sec.66-D -- 3 years or/and 1

lakh
 Crime Section Cntd…
Crime Section punishment

Credit Card Fraud 66-C, 66-D Sec.66-C, 66-D – 3 years

or/and 1 lakh and 3 years
or/and 1 lakh
E-mail Bombs 43(c)((d)(i)(j) Sec. 43(c)((d)(i)(j) - 3 years
or/and five lakhs

Spoofing 66-D Sec.66-D - 3 years or/and 1

lakh

Cyber Stalking 66-A Sec.66-A – 3 years and fine

Cyber Defamation 66-A Sec.66-A – 3 years and fine

Cyber Terrorism 66-F Sec.66-F - life imprisonment

 Phishing

Mr. S.Singh account showed a deduction of Rs 41,000

and he had no clue where the money had gone.
Investigation revealed the money had been
transferred to one of his friend in Delhi.

It was later revealed that Singh had been a victim of a

phishing attack on ICICI Bank. He had given his
password and name online by replying to an email
sent by the hackers.
 Phishing cntd...

The hackers then logged into Singh's account and

put in their mobile number instead of his. So that,
when they did make the transfer, the message
alerting Singh of the transfer would go out to their
mobile and not his. This very move proved to be the
hacker's activity.
 Phishing & IT-Act

This is the case of phishing, and impersonating as bank and

then as user.
Covered under section of IT act
43 H - Charged Services on the behalf of other
65-Tapmperd with computer documents and designs
66- Computer related offence
66 C-It’s a clear case of ID theft
66 D- And the gainer/ attacker impersonated as victim