Cybercrime Conclusion

As someone rightly said that “bytes are replacing bullets in the crime world”. The growth of cyber crime in India, as all over the world, is on the rise and to curb its scope and complexity is the pertinent need today. Cyber space offers a plethora of opportunities for cyber criminals either to cause harm to innocent people, or to make a fast buck at the expense of unsuspecting citizens.

The case studies indicate that all walks of life are getting exposed to cyber crime. Several people have come forward and reported such crimes, which have met with an assuring and prompt response from the law enforcement authorities from the different cities of the country. The practice of any craft builds expertise and excellence over a period of time, and the nascent field of cyber crime investigation is no exception. It is clear that in India, this building of a community practice has started happening and the cyber sleuths are learning new tools and honing them with initiative and experience. The aim of instituting the annual India Cyber Cop Award was to help this process. This compilation is an attempt to help that process in cataloguing, chronicling and documenting cyber crime as it gets reported and investigated. It may be mentioned that some of the excellent cases included in this compilation could not be considered for the India Cyber Cop award as they were still technically under investigation and only those cases which were sent to the trial courts were evaluated for the final ranking.

It also symbolizes the spirit of the Mumbai Cyber Safety Week, which is a unique initiative of the different stakeholders like the law enforcement authorities, the many industry associations, academic institutions and voluntary bodies coming together and trying to increase the level of cyber crime awareness.

We intend to bring out similar compilations every year, based on the entries received. We have made a significant beginning to secure India’s cyber space with a steadfast purpose to provide a secure computing environment not only for Indian organizations and citizens, but also for the vast amount of information processing work getting outsourced to our country.

Following are some general security tips for users as displayed in the Mumbai Police cyber crime Website.

Is the e-mail from someone that you know?
Have you received e-mails from this sender before?
Were you expecting an e-mail with an attachment from this sender?
Does the e-mail from the sender with the contents as described in the subject line and the name of the attachment(s) make sense?
Does this e-mail contain a virus? To determine this, you need to install and use an anti-virus programme.

For each computer and service you use (for example, e-mail, chatting, online purchasing), you should have a password.
You shouldn’t write them down not should you share them with anyone, even your best friends.
Computer intruders use trial-and-error, or brute-force techniques, to discover passwords.
Use alphanumeric characters and special characters in your password.
The length of password should be as long as possible (more than eight characters).
Do not write it on some place where it is visible to someone else.

Stay informed and be in touch with security related news.
Watch traffic to your site. Put host-based intrusion detection devices on your Web servers and monitor activity looking for any irregularities.
Put in firewall.
Configure your firewall correctly.
Develop your Web content off-line.
Make sure that the Web servers running your public Website are physically separate and individually protected from your internal corporate network.
Protect your databases. If your Website serves up dynamic content from database, consider putting that database behind a second interface on your firewall, with tighter access rules than the interface to your Web server.
Back up your Website after every update.

Do not give out identifying information such as name, home address, and school name or telephone number in a chat room.
Do not send your photograph to any one on the net without initially checking with the parent or guardian.
Do not respond to messages or bulletin board items that are obscene, belligerent or threatening.
Never arrange a face to face meeting without informing your parent or guardian.

Remember that people online may not be who they seem to be.

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