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- 1. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT Dr. Prasoona Reddy
- 2. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT The primary law in India dealing with Cybercrimes and Electronic commerce It commenced in October 17, 2000 There are 94 sections,13 chapters and 4 schedules IT Amendment Act 2008
- 3. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT Electronic records: Information captured through electronic means . Examples of electronic records include: pen drives,images emails, websites, Word/Excel documents, digital purchase receipts, databases, text messages, social media postings, and information stored on SharePoint sites and content management systems (Catalyst, Slack, DropBox, etc.)
- 4. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT Digital signature: A digital signature is an electronic, encrypted, stamp of authentication on digital information such as email messages, macros, or electronic documents. E-Governance: Use of electronic records and electronic signatures in Government and its agencies.
- 5. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT Cybercrime Cybercrimes : Criminal activities carried out by means of computer or internet Electronic commerce : Buying and selling of goods & services over electeonic network or internet.
- 6. THE OFFENCES AND THE PUNISHMENTS IN IT ACT 2000 : Tampering with the computer source documents. Directions of Controller to a subscriber to extend facilities to decrypt information. Publishing of information which is obscene in electronic form. Penalty for breach of confidentiality and privacy. Hacking for malicious purposes. Penalty for publishing Digital Signature Certificate false in certain particulars. Power of Controller to give directions.
- 7. THE OFFENCES AND THE PUNISHMENTS IN IT ACT 2000 : Phishing: Phishing got its name from “phish” meaning fish. It’s a common phenomenon to put bait for the fish to get trapped Confiscation or Seizure Cyberbullying Cyberstalking Cyberfraud
- 8. VIRUS IN INFORMATION SECURITY Spread of Malware-Trojan horse: There was a Trojan that disguised itself as a game. Many users have downloaded this game and that secretly turned into a self-replicating virus. The game was a simple theme-based game, but it started to back up all the files on the drive where the user would access them. The Trojan turned out to be harmless, and it was easy for them to fix. Now after this many Trojan viruses or Malware came which turned out to be a threat or the most popular malware attack. The Trojans are a bit tougher to be identified. Trojans can be found in MP3 songs that the user may have downloaded, downloading games from an unsecured website, or advertisement that pops up when the user is browsing the page.
- 9. PUNISHMENT Section 43-This section of IT Act, 2000 states that any act of destroying, altering or stealing computer system/network or deleting data with malicious intentions without authorization from owner of the computer is liable for the payment to be made to owner as compensation for damages. Section 66-Hacking of a Computer System with malicious intentions like fraud will be punished with 3 years imprisonment or the fine of Rs.5,00,000 or both. Section 66F-This section of IT Act, is on Cyber Terrorism affecting unity, integrity, security, sovereignty of India through digital medium is liable for life imprisonment.