Cyber Crime Wing

Trying to get into computer systems in order to steal, corrupt, or illegitimately view data. Hacking comes from the term “hacker”, who is an expert in computer programming languages and systems. Hacking, in this sense, means using unusually complex and clever methods to make computers do things. For some time, however, the popular press has used the word “hacker” and “hacking” in a negative way to refer to individuals who try to get into computer systems in order to steal, corrupt, or illegitimately view data. Hackers themselves maintain that the proper term for such individuals is “cracker”, and that their activities should be called cracking. However, in order to be consistent with the most common usage of the word, we use “hacking” here to refer to unauthorized access.

Cyber stalking (also called cyber harassment) is when someone uses the Internet to threaten or make unwanted advances towards someone else. This sort of harassment can cause physical, emotional, and psychological damage to the victim. Children are particularly vulnerable because of their trusting nature and give away their personal information. This information later is used against them for stalking purpose, therefore the NR3C officials advice that until the person is not a trusted individual, no information should shared over the internet.

Using the Internet to threaten or make unwanted advances towards someone else Cyber stalking (also called cyber harassment) is when someone uses the Internet to threaten or make unwanted advances towards someone else. This sort of harassment can cause physical, emotional, and psychological damage to the victim. Children are particularly vulnerable because of their trusting nature.

The internet evolution has made children a viable victim to the cyber crime. As more homes have access to internet, children use the internet and chances have increased where they can fall victim to the aggression of pedophiles. The easy access to pornographic contents available over the internet lowers the inhibition of the children. Pedophiles lure the children by distributing pornographic material, and try to meet them for sexual activities which also include collection of their explicit photographs and videos. Mostly pedophiles try to contact children in chat rooms posing as teenagers, and start to befriend them to win their confidence.

Each year, countless children around the world fall prey to sexual predators. These young victims are left with permanent psychological, physical, and emotional scars. When a recording of that sexual abuse is made or released onto the Internet, it lives on forever. It haunts the children depicted in it, who live daily with the knowledge that countless strangers use an image of their worst experiences for their own gratification. NR3C, cyber crime unit has zero tolerance for pedophiles, and is driven to make cyber space a safe place for our children.

Data theft is the act of stealing computer-based information from an unknowing victim with the intent of compromising privacy or obtaining confidential information. Data theft is increasingly a problem for individual computer users, as well as big corporate firms. The following categories are most common in data theft cases.

• E-commerce: You should make sure that your data is safe from prying eyes when you sell or buy things on the Web. Carelessness can lead to leaking your private account information.
• Password cracking: Intruders can access your machine and get valuable data if it is not password-protected or its password can be easily decoded (weak password).
• Eavesdropping: Data sent on insecure lines can be wiretapped and recorded. If no encryption mechanism is used, there is a good chance of losing your password and other private information to the eavesdropper.
• Laptop theft: Increasingly incidents of laptop theft from corporate firms occur with the valuable information stored in the laptop being sold to competitors. Carelessness and lack of laptop data encryption can lead to major losses for the firm.

Identity theft refers to a crime where an individual maliciously obtains and uses another individual’s personal/sensitive information to commit frauds/scams by using the stolen identity. Mostly this crime is committed for economic gain. The cyber criminal gains access to an individual’s information by stealing e-mail details, stored information on computer databases, they eavesdrop over the networks to get hold of transactions. Identity thefts include but not limited to shoulder surfing, dumpster diving, spamming, spoofing, phishing, and skimming. NR3C has successfully investigated numerous cases of identity theft.

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is mounted with the objective of causing a negative impact on the performance of a computer or network. It is also known as a network saturation attack or bandwidth consumption attack. Attackers perform DoS attacks by sending a large number of protocol packets to the network.

Intellectual property rights is concerned with any act that allows access to patent, trade secrets, customer data, sales trends, and any confidential information.