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Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 Cyber Crimes : Introductory “The easy access of internet has ill effects on the youth” 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Online Fraud 1.3 Statistics CHAPTER 2 Historical Background Internet leading the youth towards Crime 2.1 What are cyber crimes 2.2 Geographic origin 2.3 Geographic targets 2.4 Popular products CHAPTER 3 Analysis of Data Ill effects of internet on physical, cognitive and social development of the child 3.1 Negative Effects of Internet Usage on Child Development 3.2 Impact on Physical Development 3.3 Impact on Cognitive Development 3.4 Impact on Social Development 3.5 Sociology of the Internet 3.6 Social networking and entertainment 3.7 CYBERSECTARIANISM CHAPTER 4 Generalizations and findings that are arrived on based on the above research or study. 4.1 EFFECTS OF INTERNET 4.2 Top 10 Negative Effects of Internet on Students CHAPTER 5 Legislative Enactments Verification of results and Conceptualization 5.1 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT 2000 5.2 Advantages of Cyber Laws 5.3 Yahoo Groups (2003) 5.4 Websites blocked (2006) 5.5 Websites banned 5.6 Pre-screening of Internet content 5.7 Ban on Cartoons Against Corruption 5.8 Websites blocked 5.9 Reliance DNS servers compromised CHAPTER 6 Compilation of Data based on the above research and accordingly deriving the conclusion. 6.1 CONCLUSION : Cyber Crimes Introductory “The easy access of internet has ill effects on the youth” “The contents displayed on the various sites on internet are negative & misguiding” “ Lack of privacy as a result of easy access of net : hacking” 1.1 Introduction The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve several billion users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW), the infrastructure to support email, and peer-to-peer networks. Most traditional communications media including telephone, music, film, and television are being reshaped or redefined by the Internet, giving birth to new services such as voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Internet Protocol television (IPTV). Newspaper, book and other print publishing are adapting to website technology, or are reshaped into blogging and web feeds. The Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking. With the evolution of the Internet, along came another revolution of crime where the perpetrators commit acts of crime and wrongdoing on the World Wide Web. Internet crime takes many faces and is committed in diverse fashions. The number of users and their diversity in their makeup has exposed the Internet to everyone. Some criminals in the Internet have grown up understanding this superhighway of information, unlike the older generation of users. This is why Internet crime has now become a growing problem in the United States. Some crimes committed on the Internet have been exposed to the world and some remain a mystery up until they are perpetrated against someone or some company. 1.2 Online Fraud Internet with its numerous advantages always remains in news all across the globe for different reasons. If there are good services and features to make the life easier and secure then there are also loopholes that work against its benefits to destroy the balance and create trouble.1 The virtual world is no exception to it, everyday developers and security professionals are coming forward with great features offering better security, but on the other side of it, there are community of scammers and hackers who are constantly trying to transgress the security wall and access the valuable information that is supposed to remain protected and secured. 1 2012 - 2013 http:// CyberCrimeindia.org Internet is one of the most wonderful inventions of the last century. Now it has become an integral part of our life and it is continuously making human life easier and simpler in various ways. From information accessing to money transfer all kinds of task are performed using the internet. Today more and more people are relying on online banking and online shopping for the day to day to the task. Make your internet surfing safe and secure, follow simple safety steps and avoid any kind of miss-happening. Despite several laws and awareness program every year millions of people get sacked by fraudulent people. Scams, frauds, cons are prevalent all over the world and they are active in cheating and fooling people. Though internet is widely used for various purposes, but there are large numbers of people who rely on internet to learn and know more about investment opportunities. Hackers and scammers are also on high alert at such websites. They create mirror site and it is impossible to find whether the website is genuine or fraud. They ask user to share personal information like credit card number, phone number and internet has emerged as a great platform for the investors. Every year, billion of dollars are drained with phishing. 1.2 Online Fraud Internet crime is crime committed on the Internet, using the Internet and by means of the Internet. Computer crime is a general term that embraces such crimes as phishing, credit card frauds, bank robbery, illegal downloading, industrial espionage, child pornography, kidnapping children via chat rooms, scams, cyberterrorism, creation and/or distribution of viruses, Spam and so on. All such crimes are computer related and facilitated crimes. The different types of Internet crime vary in their design and how easily they are able to be committed. Internet crimes can be separated into two different categories. There are crimes that are only committed while being on the Internet and are created exclusively because of the World Wide Web. The typical crimes in criminal history are now being brought to a whole different level of innovation and ingenuity. Such new crimes devoted to the Internet are email “phishing”, hijacking domain names, virus immistion, and cyber vandalism. 1.3 Statistics Cyber crime cases have increased significantly in India. However, there is a general lack of awareness among public at large as well as police and judicial system regarding cyber law and cyber crimes. As a result most of the cyber crimes are not reported at all. Even if some cyber crimes are reported they are not investigated properly and this results in very few cyber crime convictions.2 In most of the cases lack of cyber crime conviction is the primary result of absence of proper legal assistance to prosecute cyber crimes. 2 http://www.cyberlawsindia.net/news.html CHAPTER 2 Historical Background: Internet leading the youth towards Crime 2.1 What are cyber crimes Parents, teachers, non-profits, government, and industry have been working hard to protect kids online. However, we also need to think about protecting the Internet from kids who might abuse it. 3 The Department of Justice categorizes computer crime in three ways: 1. The computer as a target - attacking the computers of others (spreading viruses is an example). 2. The computer as a weapon - using a computer to commit "traditional crime" that we see in the physical world (such as fraud or illegal gambling). 3. The computer as an accessory - using a computer as a "fancy filing cabinet" to store illegal or stolen information. So what are cyber crimes?4 Can the law enforcement authorities find criminals online? How can we create context for our children to understand what cyber crimes are? The following information (and areas throughout the site) will help familiarize us with unethical and illegal online behavior. 3 www.cybercrime.gov, www.cert.org, www.infragard.net 4 http://cybercitizenship.org We have very few cyber law firms in India that are truly cyber law firms. Perry4Law is the best cyber law firm of India that is providing cyber law and other techno legal services. 2.2 Geographic origin In some cases Internet Fraud schemes originate in the US and European countries, but a significant proportion seems to come from Africa, particularly Nigeria and Ghana, and sometimes from Egypt. Some originate in Eastern Europe, Southwest Asia and China. For some reason, many fraudulent orders seem to originate from Belgium, from Amsterdam in the Netherlands, from Norway, and from Malmö in Sweden. 2.3 Geographic targets Europe, US, and some Asia Pacific countries like Singapore and Australia are the leading targets of this type of fraud. 2.4 Popular products Fraudsters seem to prefer small and valuable products, such as: watches, jewelry, laptops, ink cartridges, digital cameras, and camcorders. These items are usually commodities that are easily sellable and have a broad range of appeal. However, fraud in hosted marketplaces such as Ebay covers a broad range of products from cellular phones to desktop computers. The craft has continually evolved in sophistication. In some instances, a picture of the product is sent in place of the actual product. Other times, products are outright never sent after the bill is charged to credit card accounts. Victims are left to deal with credit card companies for chargebacks. Some Fraudsters market intangibles such as software downloads or documentation. Pricing on such items is low in order to encourage a purchase perceived by the consumer as low risk (in accordance with low cost.) Software download scams are frequently targeted at high-population buying communities such as online gaming worlds. Wow stat hack is an example of one such scam.