Information Technology and Cyber Law 9

സൈബർ നിയമങ്ങൾ, സൈബർ കുറ്റകൃത്യങ്ങൾ എന്നീ പ്രധാന ഭാഗങ്ങളുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചോദ്യങ്ങളാണ് ഇന്നത്തെ പാഠത്തിൽ ഉൾപ്പെടുത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നത്

• First cyber law in India

               IT Act 2000

• IT Act 2000 was enacted on

               9th June 2000

• IT Act 2000 came into force on

               17th October 2000

• Four types of cyber laws are

               Laws relating to digital contracts, digital property, digital rights, and cyber crimes

• The headquarters of Asian school of cyber laws

               Pune

• First cyber crime police station in India

               Bengaluru

• First cyber post office in India

               Chennai

• First cyber forensic laboratory in India

               Tripura

• First cyber police station in Kerala

               Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram

• No of chapters and sections in IT Act 2000

               13 chapters and 94 sections

• Regulatory authority of IT Act 2000

               Controller of certifying authority appointed by central government

• IT regulations 2001 came into force on

               9th July 2001

• Cyber offences according to IT Act 2000

               Tampering with computer document, Hacking with computer system, Intrusion into protected system, Misrepresentation, Confiscation

• The term Electronic signanture was introduced by

               IT Act (Amendment) 2008

• IT Amendment Act 2008 giving more focus on

               Information Security

• No of chapters and sections in IT Act 2008

               124 sections and 14 Chapters

• IT Amendment Act 2008 was passed by the houses of parliament on

               23rd and 24th December 2008

• IT Amendment Act 2008 received presidential assent on

               5th February 2009

• IT Amendment Act 2008 came into force on

               27th October 2009

• According to IT Amendment Act 2008 who is responsible for investigating cyber crimes

               Any Police officer not below the rank of deputy superintendent of police (DSP)

• First cyber crime in the World was registered against

               Joseph Marie Jacquard

• First cyber crime in India was registered against

               Arif Asim

• First Asian country to enforce cyber laws

               Singapore

• Nodal agency in India that deals with cyber threats

               CERT-IN (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team ICERT)

• CERT-IN was established in

               2004

• Who is responsible for blocking web sites in India

               CERT-IN

• CERT-IN serves as

               National agency for incident response

• Tribunal formed to handle the disputes in cyber laws

               Cyber Appellate Tribunal (Initially called as Cyber Regulations Appellate Tribunal-CRAT)

• CRAT was established in

               2006

• Cyber crime is defined as

               A crime in which a computer is the object of crime

• Cyber crime in which computer is a target

               Virus\Worm\Trojan horse attack, Hacking, Denial of Service attack etc

• Cyber crime in which computer is a weapon

               IPR violations, credit card frauds, pornography, Cyber terrorism

• Unauthorized access to another person's company's data is called

               Snooping

• Act of any intentional false communication that harms reputation of an individual, business, product, government or nation is called

               Defamation (Also known as Calumny, Vilification, or Traducement)

• Practice of sending fake emails in the name of reputed companies to retrieve personal informations such as passwords and credit card numbers

               Phishing

• Counterfeit currency notes, postage and revenue stamps, mark sheets etc can be forged using sophisticated computers, printers and scanners is called as

               Forgery

• Impersonization of another person is considering as

               Forgery

• Repeatedly sending an email message to a particular address to abuses is called as

               Email bombing

• Email bombing is considered as a type of

               Denial of Service attack

• Use of emails for sending unsolicited bulk emails (spams) and commercial messages over the internet

               Email Spamming

• Creation of email messages with fake sender address to mislead the recipient

               Email Spoofing

• Email spamming and fishing uses

               Email Spoofing

• Technique commonly used to hide the origin of Email message

               Email Spoofing

• Email spoofing in India charges the offender for forgery under section

               IPC 463

• Portrayal of sexual acts for the purpose of sexual excitement

               Pornography

• Persons who are intentionally prey upon children are known as

               Pedophiles
                                                                                  (To be Continued...)