Cyber Crime

Brief Description

Sections Relevant in IT Act.2000

Cyber Stalking

Stealthily Following a person, tracking his internet chats.

43, 65, 66

Intellectual Property Crime

Source Code Tampering etc.

65

Pornography

Publishing Obscene in Electronic Form

67

Child Pornography

Publishing Obscene in Electronic Form involving children

67

Salami Attack

Deducting small amounts from an account without coming in to notice, to make big amount

43, 65, 66

E-Mail Bombing

Flooding an E-mail box with innumerable number of E-mails, to disable to notice important message at times.

66

Phishing

Bank Financial Frauds in Electronic Banking

Provisions under 43, 65, 66,

Personal Data Theft

Stealing personal data

43 (2)

Identity Theft

Stealing cyberspace identity information of individual

66, 43

Spoofing

Stealing credentials using ,Friendly and familiar GUI’ s

Provisions Under 43, 65, 66 and 66

Worms Trojan Horses, Virus etc.

Different Hacking mechanisms

66, 43

Sabotage of Computer

Taking Control of Computer With the help of malware.

66

DOS, DDOS Denial of Service

Flooding a computer With Denial of Services Attacks, DDOS is Distributed DOS attack

43, 66

Web Defacing

Web Pages Defacing

43, Provisions Under 65, 66

Logic Bomb

Attack triggers on an event

43, 66

ATM Fraud / EDI

Financial Fraud in ATM and e-Commerce EDI

43, Provisions Under 65, 66

Data Diddling

Modifying data for the process and retaining data integrity in the structure

43, 65

Money Laundering on Web

Temporarily Keeping a Web Service for Collecting money illegally, Without registering with the any regulating authority for avoiding tax.

43, 65, 66 and 72

Spam

Unsolicited E-mails

43