Information Technology and Cyber Law 10

സൈബർ സെക്യൂരിറ്റിയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട പ്രധാന ത്രെറ്റുകൾ, കമ്പ്യൂട്ടർ വൈറസ്, മാൽവെയർ, ട്രോജൻ ഹോഴ്സ് എന്നിവയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചോദ്യങ്ങളാണ് ഇന്നത്തെ പാഠത്തിൽ ഉൾപ്പെടുത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നത്

• Unauthorized copying, reproduction, use or manufactute of product is called

                   Software Piracy

• Small program that monitor and retrieve the user name or password of network users during their login

                   Password Sniffer

• Practice of using internet to harass or threaten some one is called

                   Cyber Stalking (e-stalking or Cyber Bullying)

• How to avoid Cyber Stalking

                   Do not disclose any personal information, avoid sending photographs to strangers and chat friends, proper disconnection of internet after its use

• Hacking of websites by password cracking and alteration of contents for fulfilling political objectives or for money is called

                   Web Jacking

• Unauthorized changing of data before or during their input to a computer is called

                   Data Diddling

• Procurement of identifying information without permission and using it fraudulently to obtain goods and services is called

                   Identity Theft

• Unauthorized access of information system is called

                   Hacking

• One who does hacking is called

                   Hacker

• Hacking comes under which section of IT Act 2000

                   Section 66

• Hackers who hacking system for good reason

                   White hat hackers or Ethical hackers

• Hackers who hacking system for malicious reasons

                   Black hat hackers

• Hackers who hacking system sometimes for good reason and sometimes for malicious reasons

                   Gray hat hackers

• Unauthorized use of internet hours paid for by another person is known as

                   Theft of internet hours

• A computer connects to the internet that has been compromised by a hacker, computer virus or Trojan hourse and can be used for malicious tasks is called

                   Zombie

• Intellectual property rights refers to

                   Property rights through patents, copyrights and trademarks

• Intellectual property right violations include

                   Trademark violations, computer source code theft, patent violation and software piracy

• Theme of World Intellectual property day 2017

                   Innovation-Improving Lives

• Position of India in Intellectual property index 2017

                   43

• An attack meant to shut down a machine or network, making it inaccessible to its intended users 

                   Denial of Service

• In cyber law, DOS stands for

                   Denial of Service

• Examples of Debial of service

                   Flood a network thereby preventing legitimate network traffic, disrupt connections between two machines, preventing an individual from accessing a service

• The person who defined the term Computer Virus

                   Fred Cohen

• A computer program that can damage the operations of a computer system

                   Virus

• The term VIRUS stands for

                   Vital Information Resource Under Siege (Virtual InformationResources Under Seize)

• First computer virus

                   Creeper (As per PSC)

• First computer virus for MS DOS

                   Brain

• First computer virus affected on ARPANET (ancient form of internet)

                   Creeper

• Creeper was developed by

                   Bob Thomas

• First micro computer virus

                   Elk cloner

• First virus affected personal computer

                   Apple

• First mobile phone virus

                   Cabir

• Virus program writing programmers

                   Vickser

• Examples for computer viruses

                   TEXAS, Blaster, Nimda, I Love you, Guppy, Melissa, Slammer

• Recently happened cyber attack across 150 countries in the world

                   Wanna Cry

• Wanna Cry spread through

                   Email

• First country in which Wanna Cry attack reported for the first time

                   Panama (1989)

• Wanna Cry is an example of

                   Ransomware

• Program that make the user unable to access the system and demanding some form of payments to unlock

                   Ransomware

• Operating system being attacked by Wanna Cry

                   Windows

• Ransomware that affect different countries including India recently

                   Petya

• Examples of Ransomwares

                   Golden Eye, Cryptolocker, Locky, Crysis, ZCrypt, Powerware, Hydra Crypt, Cerber, Cryptowall

• Ad click malware that affect Google play applications recently

                   Judy, Skinner, False Guide

• Computer software which is used to prevent, delete and detect the presence of Virus in Computer

                   Antivirus

• Examples of antivirus programs

                   Avast, Avira, AVG, Kasperesky, Norton, MaAfee

• Subclass of computer virus that can replicate itself through network connections to any machine without human intervention

                   Worm

• Malware which appears to be useful applications but allow hacker to take control of the system 

                   Trojan Horse

• Facts about Trojan horse

                   They are not viruses, it does not replicate itself

• Trojans which are activated on certain time are called

                   Time bombs

• Peace of code inserted into a software that will execute its malicious function when the specified conditions are met

                   Logic Bomb

• Program that automatically renders advertisements in order to generate revenue for its author

                   Adware

• Software that can record every keystroke we make using keyboard

                   Keyloggers
                                                                          (To be Continued...)