Unit-1:
Introduction of Cyber Crime, Challenges of cyber crime, Classifications of Cyber crimes: EMail Spoofing, Spamming, Internet Time Theft, Salami attack/Salami Technique,
Unit-2:
Web jacking, Online Frauds, Software Piracy, Computer Network Intrusions, Password Sniffing, Identity Theft, cyber terrorism, Virtual Crime, Perception of cyber criminals: hackers, insurgents and extremist group etc. Web servers were hacking, session hijacking.
Unit-3:
Cyber Crime and Criminal justice: Concept of Cyber Crime and the IT Act, 2000, Hacking, Teenage Web Vandals, Cyber Fraud and Cheating, Defamation, Harassment and E-mail Abuse, Other IT Act Offences, Monetary Penalties, jurisdiction and Cyber Crimes, Nature of Criminality, Strategies to tackle Cyber Crime and Trends.
Unit-4:
The Indian Evidence Act of 1872 v. Information Technology Act, 2000: Status of Electronic Records as Evidence, Proof and Management of Electronic Records; Relevancy, Admissibility and Probative Value of E-Evidence, Proving Digital Signatures, Proof of Electronic Agreements, Proving Electronic Messages.
Unit-5:
Tools and Methods in Cybercrime: Proxy Servers and Anonymizers, Password Cracking, Key loggers and Spyware, virus and worms, Trojan Horses, Backdoors, DoS and DDoS Attacks , Buffer and Overflow, Attack on Wireless Networks, Phishing : Method of Phishing, Phishing Techniques.
1. Principles of Cyber crime, Jonathan Clough Cambridge University Press
2. John R. Vacca, Computer Forensics:Computer Crime Scene Investigation, 2nd Edition, Charles River Media, 2005
3. Cyber Law Simplified, VivekSood, Pub: TMH.
4. Cyber Security by Nina Godbole, SunitBelapure Pub: Wiley-India
5. Information Warfare: Corporate attack and defense in digital world, William Hutchinson, Mathew Warren, Elsevier.
6. Cyber Laws and IT Protection, Harish Chander, Pub:PHI.