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Secure Development Is in Your Hands

The document discusses cyber crimes and security. It notes that cyber crimes are easy to commit using only a computer and internet access. Over 90% of computer crimes are committed by employees of organizations. Common cyber crimes include unauthorized access, email bombing, and denial of service attacks. The document recommends that firms, governments, and civil societies work together to strengthen cyber security laws and that individuals use antivirus software, firewalls, back up data, and disconnect from the internet when not in use.

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Secure Development Is in Your Hands

The document discusses cyber crimes and security. It notes that cyber crimes are easy to commit using only a computer and internet access. Over 90% of computer crimes are committed by employees of organizations. Common cyber crimes include unauthorized access, email bombing, and denial of service attacks. The document recommends that firms, governments, and civil societies work together to strengthen cyber security laws and that individuals use antivirus software, firewalls, back up data, and disconnect from the internet when not in use.

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Secure Development Is In Your Hands…

1. Most harmful activities committed from computer or against computer.

3. Different from terrestrial crimes in following ways


* Easy to commit
* Requires few resources… only a computer having Internet.
* Can be committed without physically present in it.
* Cyber Crimes are often not clearly illegal.

9. In short, they are the unlawful acts wherein the computer is a tool or
target or both.
Cyber = Online

Anything that is related to internet falls under the Cyber Category


• In 1987 Cyber Crime and their losses were ranging from $145 million to
$ 730 million.

• In May 2000, The Love Bug virus attack caused loss of over Billion
Dollars World Wide.

3. Kevin Mitnick’s (“Condor”) hacking spree cost high-tech companies at


least $291.8 million over a two-year span before his capture.

8. High School Kids hacked into a Bay Area internet server and used
stolen credit card numbers to order computer equipment: $200k.
1. Unauthorized Access

2. Email Bombing

3. Data Diddling

4. Salami Attack

5. Internet Time Theft

6. Logic Bomb
7. Virus/Worm Attack
8. Trojan Attack

9. Denial Of Service Attack

10. Distributed DoS


11. Cyber Pornography

12. Email Spoofing

13. Intellectual Property Crime


14. Cyber Stalking
1. Students, terrorists, employees of the organizations are involved in
the Cyber Crime.

3. Over 90 % of computer crimes are done by the Company’s own


employees.

5. Criminals Includes: -
* Kids (Age Group 9-16).
* Organized Hackers Group….. “Cult Of Dead Cow”.
* Employees.
* Professional hackers.
1. Unauthorized Access

3. Packet Sniffing

5. Tempest Attack

7. Password Cracking

9. Buffer Overflow
1. Vladimir Levin

3. Johan Helsingius

5. Kevin Mitnick

7. Robert Morris

9. Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson


Mr. Kevin Mitnick
1. Cyber laws punish the Cyber Criminals.

2. The Information Technology Act, 2000 defines all the


Cyber laws in India.
5. Unauthorized Access - 2 years of Jail or fine.
6. Computer Hacking - 3 years of Jail or fine up to
Rs. 2,00,000/-
8. Virus Attacks - 1 year of Jail & fine up to
Rs. 2,00,000/-
1. Firms, civil societies, governments should work cooperatively to
strengthen legal frameworks for cyber security.

2. Governments should assure that their laws apply to cyber crimes.

3. Firms should secure their networked information.


• Use anti-virus software and firewalls - keep them up to date

• Don't open emails or attachments from unknown sources.

• Back-up your computer data on disks or CDs often

• Disconnect from the Internet when not in use.

• Don't share access to your computers with strangers

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