"TYPES OF CYBER CRIMES & APPLICABLE LAW"



   Email Hacking 
 1. 
Suppose the password has been stolen & obscene emails are being send to your friends from the given address book .Sec. 43,66,67 of Information Technology ACT, 2000 & section 509 of Indian Penal Code . The person who is hacking the email account as well as a person who is misusing it are responsible for the crime.

2. 
Password stolen &  hacker tried to intimidate victim to shake down money from him/her . Sec. 43,66,of IT ACT,2000 & Section 384 of IPC. Person who is hacking email account as well as person who is misusing and who is motivating to do that is responsible for that crime.

Virus Dissemination
Viruses are the programs which affects the available files on the computer & spread all over 
the network by using the Internet. Virus is targeting an individual or an exact organization
which is not detected by antivirus software’s. Section 43,66 of IT Act,2000 and section 426 
of IPC. The bug writer as well as the person who is spreading this bug  is responsible for the 
crime.

 The person pirated the software’s & send it into a pirated Compact Disk . Section 43,66 of IT Act,2000 & 63 of Copyright Act. The person who pirate that software as well as the  person who buy it as well as  who use software is responsible for that crime .

Cyber Pornography Crimes
As per IT act,2000, publishing, transmitting & causing to be published any type of porn material either in an electronic format which is considered to be as cyber crime. There are trillions of the websites which includes pornographic material online easily .

The person who not only creates but also maintain such websites are liable for the crimes. Sometimes cyber café owners might also be liable for it as they allow  their customers to not only visit but also suggest to use such websites. Section 67 of IT Act,2000

Social Networking (Facebook/Orkut) Fake Profile Impersonation Cases
1. 
Fake profile of  a feminine is created & the photograph, phone number & address has been posted on that profile too . The fake profile also describes feminine as prostitute. Section 67 of IT Act,2000 & 509 of IPC.

2. 
Fake group of people has been created & wrong information about an individual person or an association has been posted. Section 153A & 153B of IPC.

Web Defacements
Crackers or an Hackers find the loopholes of  the website. Hacker replaces the index page of 
the website with another page. Hacker can also delete the total data available on the 
websites. Section 43,66 of IT Act, India & Sec.67  in some other cases.

Email Scams
A suspect sends the thousands number of emails & conveniences to victim to get out of a lot of money. The might give you  lucrative offers like job offers, lottery & investment offers. Section 420 of IPC. Sender of an email, sometimes bank account are liable for this type of crime.

Theft of the Source Code
Source Code of a program is one of the very  most important asset for any group. 
Source code theft is common in software or an information technology companies. Person 
steals the code & sell it to another party after making amendment in the source code. 
Section43,65,66 of IT Act,2000 & 63 of copyright act. Person who has stolen the code is 
liable for the act .

Theft of confidential information
Employee steals the secret information of the company & mail it to the competitors & post 
the entire thing on the websites & forums. Section 43,66 of IT Act,2000 & 426 of IPC.

Mobile Related Crimes
Now a day’s mobile phones become most popular means of communications. SMS forging is 
one of the method to spoof identity of an SMS where as Call Forging is a method to spoof 
caller ID of Call.

Suspect has misused the victim’s no to send an SMS or to make call to another person or the competitor . Section 65,66 of IT Act,2000. The person  misusing the victim’s number  as well as the company or an organization who allows user to change their identity of  SMS or Call are liable.

Credit Card Frauds
Victim’s Credit cards have been misused on an airline websites for online gambling , pornography websites etc . Section 43,66 of IT Act,2000 & 420 of IPC. The persons had stolen the entire information to who have misused that information online are liable.




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