Seminar on Cyber Crime Awareness:A brief report

Date: 26 February 2015

Venue: Srijan Hall

No. of Participants: 40

Objective of the workshop/seminar/activity: to impart knowledge to the students and staff about the various issues related to cybercrime and hacking

Description:

The Department of CS IT of The IIS University, Jaipur organized a seminar on ‘Cyber Crime Awareness’ to impart knowledge to the students and staff about the various issues related to cybercrime and hacking. The lecture was delivered by Sir Milind Agarwal, President of Cyber Crime Awareness Society (CCAS), Jaipur. He is one of the youngest Cyber Forensic Experts and vulnerable researchers of India. He has earned great fame in the world of Internet security. He is a professional Ethical Hacker, Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator and Red Hat Certified Engineer. He is presently working as an official Cyber Crime Investigator with Rajasthan Police. He has also written a book on Cyber Crime Investigation and Cyber Security. He has also started ‘Webbed’ series on MTV India in association with Viacom18. Ms. Anubha Jain, H.O.D. of the CS IT Department presented the floral greetings to him.

Cybercrime is a criminal activity in which a computer is used as a source, tool or target. He discussed various theories in the Cyber Crime world like ‘The Broken Window Theory’ which states that due to negligence of crimes full society can be corrupted if one criminal starts living in the society. “If minor petty crime is not dealt with, crime will increase’.  There are different types of cybercrimes like hacking, denial of service, virus dissemination, piracy, phishing, spoofing, defamation, IRC crimes etc.

Cybercrimes can be done by using a keylogger or some spyware software like Creepware. He shared lots of case studies with us like the case of Cassidy wolf. Websites used for downloading songs like Songs.pk are also supporting piracy and are underworld operated sites to hack user data. Credit card frauds are done with the help of skimmers. Another case study, that of Pranab Mitra’s net extortion was shared. Lots of Nigerian crimes are being conducted to dupe people and transfer their money into the criminal’s account.

Emerging fields for coders and non-coders were stated by him. At last, the interaction round was conducted where students and teachers asked their queries and he solved all of them. He also shared his and other helpline numbers to all, for their security and safety concerns in future. He also promised to organize a 3-day workshop on ethical hacking for the students.

The session ended with a thank you note and filling of the feedback forms.

Outcome of the activity/event/seminar/workshop: the students got to learn a lot about cybercrime, its awareness, its investigation from an official Cyber Crime Investigator with Rajasthan Police