CONSULTING CENTRE ON THE AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BY INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY AMENDMENT BILL 2008
The Information Technology Amendment Bill 2008 was passed by the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha in the last week of December 2008 and received the President’s assent on 5th February 2009. The Bill aims to make sweeping changes in the existing Indian cyber [...]

The Indian ITAct,2000 stipulates that Network service providers are not liable in certain cases, for any third party information or data made available by an ISP, if it proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge[1],, or that he had exercised all due diligence to prevent the commissioning of such offence
[2]. A ‘network [...]

Karnika Seth – Cyber lawyer & Consultant practicing in the Supreme Court of India and Delhi High Court

THE MEANING OF PHISING
In the cyber-world phising (also known as carding and spoofing) is a form of illegal act whereby fraudulently sensitive information is acquired, such as passwords and credit card details, by a person/entity masquerading as a [...]

By- Karnika Seth, Cyberlaw expert
Hate speech is a term for speech intended to degrade, intimidate, or incite violence or prejudicial action against a person or group of people based on their race, gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation,
gender identity,disability, language ability, moral or political views, socioeconomic, class, occupation or appearance (such as height,weight,and hair [...]

By Karnika Seth, Cyberlaw expert & Partner, Seth Associates Advocates & legal Consultants

Can we regulate the internet?
The unprecedented advent of Internet is challenging many existing models of Information society and forms of regulation. Internet is a global communication network and in its quintessence, beyond the national frontiers and does not fit into the existing [...]

By Karnika Seth, Chairperson, Cyberlaws Consulting Centre
The term spam was first used in the early 1990s to describe e-mail messages, not related to the topic of discussion and postings that swamped newsgroups. Spam is frequently described as e-mail that is sent in bulk; flooding the Internet with copies of the same message and forcing [...]

Spoofing is a practice whereby the user on the internet attempts to conceal its IP address to conceal its true identity. Many crackers steal databases of credit cards or other sensitive information[1].
The concept of IP spoofing, was initially discussed in academic circles in the 1980’s. While known about for sometime, it was primarily theoretical until [...]