A logic bomb[7] is a program, or portion of a program, which lies dormant until a specific piece of program logic is activated. In this way, a logic bomb is very analagous to a real-world land mine.The most common activator for a logic bomb is a date. The logic bomb checks the system date and […]

Cyberstalking, which is simply an extension of the physical form of stalking, is where the electronic mediums such as the Internet are used to pursue, harass or contact another in an unsolicited fashion. Most often, given the vast distances that the Internet spans, this behaviour will never manifest itself in the physical sense but this […]

A virus might corrupt or delete data on your computer, use your e-mail program to spread itself to other computers, or even erase everything on your hard disk. See ‘What is a computer virus ?’ Published: October 23, 2006 This new bug is distributed as an attachment to an e-mail message entitled, “I Love You.” […]

“The magnetic stripe on the back of your card has all information about your card encoded on it. Sometimes, when the card is handed over, or gets out of sight of the cardholder, fraudsters will use small pager-size devices called ‘skimmers’ or readers/writers to copy the information on the magstripe of the card. This information […]

A destructive program that masquerades as a benign application. Unlike viruses, Trojan horses[3]do not replicate themselves but they can be just as destructive. One of the most insidious types of Trojan horse is a program that claims to rid your computer of viruses but instead introduces viruses onto your computer. The term comes from the […]

“Article 21 of the Constitution of India covers the right to privacy as a fundamental right to protect the autonomy interest. Further, the IT Amendment Bill 2008 introduces s 66E to specifically deal with menace of video voyeurism and MMS scams. According to this section, whoever intentionally or knowingly captures, publishes or transmits the image […]

Virus-Malicious programs intend to cause harm to targeted systems and include virus, worms, Trojan horses, Logic bombs and hoaxes[1].A virus[2] is a program that infects an executable file and after infecting it causes the file to function in an unusual way. It propagates itself by attaching to executable files like application programs and operating system. […]

DNS Spoofing is a term used to describe the faking of host masks during the resolution of internet hosts names. To perform DNS spoofing a hacker attempts to intercept the communication and send fake host name mapping to the victims computer. This can be done using malicious web applets downloaded by the attacked user himself.

Financial Crimes are defined as a crime against property, involving the unlawful conversion of the ownership of property (belonging to one person) to one’s own personal use and benefit. There are many different ways that these crimes can be committed, for instance by mail, fax, telephone and the Internet. By using social engineering techniques or […]

It is the measure of how much information one can send through a connection. It is usually measured in bits-per-second.