Cyber Terrorism

When technology become Weapon

Meghdoot Dhameliya

Content

About Cyber terrorism

Why IT so attractive to the Cyber Terrorists?
What the Cyber Terrorist can do?
Example of Cyber Terrorism
Basic guideline to be Secure
Types of Cyber Crime (Hacking , Cyber Pumps,
Phreakers...)
Types of attacks through Internet
Impact of Cyber Crime on work culture and their
result
Types of Hacking
Reverse Engineering Hacking Facebook, Whats
App !! And Phreakers!

About Cyber Terrorism

What is Cyber Terrorism?
Cyber Terrorism is Changing
Conventional Methods
Why heads towards Internet?

Why IT so attractive to the Cyber

Terrorists?

Modern Technology
Key difference in new tactics
Increased anonymity
Facilitation of terrorism through IT
Political Propaganda and disinformation
(Iran,Iraq,Mexico,Northern Ireland, Saudi
Arabia)
Widest Possible Audience

What Cyber Terrorist can

do?
Threats to Commerce, Public Safety and
National Security
Attack on Victims Resource with their
own technology
Catastrophic Loss of finance or physical
loss

Most Known Example of Cyber

Attacks

Adobe Hack
Around 2.9 million people across the globe, using
popular software applications like Photoshop,
InDesign and Acrobat have had their private
information like passwords and even credit and
debit card details stolen in a sophisticated cyberattack on Adobe, the parent company.
Date 5th Oct 2013
Reference Times of India

Credit Card Fraud

MUMBAI: A 28-year-old media professional became
the latest victim of credit card fraud on Sunday.
The Mahim resident who did not want to be named
got three text alerts over 25 minutes on August 10
showing Rs11,483 being siphoned from his savings
account as his attempts to contact the
bank's customer care service to block the card
went in vain for over 10 hours.
Date : 19th Aug 2013
Reference: Times of India

Syrian Electronic Army

(Hackers Group)
The SEA claims responsibility for defacing or
otherwise compromising hundreds of websites
that it contends spread news hostile to the Syrian
government. These include news websites such as
BBC News, the Associated Press,
National Public Radio, Al Jazeera, Financial Times,
The Daily Telegraph,[11] The Washington Post,[12]
Syrian satellite broadcaster Orient TV, and Dubaibased al-Arabia TV,[5] as well as rights
organizations such as Human Rights Watch.[13]
Other SEA targets include VoIP apps, such as
Viber, and Tango.

Cyber Attacks

July 2011: University of California Los Angeles website defaced

by SEA hacker "The Pro".[19]
September 2011: Harvard University website defaced in what
was called the work of a "sophisticated group or individual".
The Harvard homepage was replaced with an image of Syrian
president Bashar al-Assad, with a message saying "Syrian
Electronic Army Were Here".[20]
April 2012: The Syrian Electronic Army took down the official
blog of social media website LinkedIn. The page was
redirected instead to a site supporting Bashar al-Assad. [21]
August 2012: The Twitter account of the Reuters news agency
was hacked by the SEA. 22 tweets were sent with false
information on the conflict in Syria. In addition, the Reuters
news website was compromised, and a false report was
posted about to a Reuters journalist's blog. [22]
23 April 2013: The SEA hijacked the Associated Press Twitter
account and falsely claimed the White House had been
bombed and President Barack Obama injured.

Cont..

BACK

May 2013: The Twitter account of The Onion was

compromised by the SEA, by phishing Google Apps
accounts of The Onion's employees.[18]
May 2013: The ITV news London Twitter account was
hacked on the 24th May 2013 by the SEA. The Android
applications of British Broadcaster Sky News were also
hacked on 26 May 2013 on Google Play Store.
17 July 2013, Truecaller servers were allegedly hacked into
by the Syrian Electronic Army.[23] The group claimed on its
twitter handle to have recovered 459 GiBs of database,
primarily due to an older version of Wordpress installed on
the servers. The hackers also released TrueCaller's alleged
database host ID, username, and password via another
tweet.[24] On 18 July 2013, Truecaller issued a statement on
its blog stating that their servers were indeed hacked, but
claiming that the attack did not disclose any passwords or
credit card information.[25]
23 July 2013: Viber servers were allegedly hacked into by
SEA as well. The Viber support website was replaced with a

Basic guideline to be Secure

Machine isolation
Use of firewall
Encrypted Data
1) All accounts should have passwords and the
passwords should be unusual, difficult to guess.
2) Change the network configuration when defects
become know.
3) Check with venders for upgrades and patches.
4) Audit systems and check logs to help in detecting and
tracing an intruder
5) If you are ever unsure about the safety of a site, or
receive suspicious email from an unknown address,
don't access it. It could be trouble

Types of Cyber Crime

Hacking without any intention to
commit any further offence.
Unauthorized access with intention
to commit further offences. These
can
include theft, fraud, missappropriations, forgery, cracking
Distribution of digital information
through use of virus, trogon horses,
logic bombs.

Types of Cyber
Crime(Cont..)
Code hacker :They know computers inside
out. They can make the computer do nearly
anything they want it to.
Crackers: They break into computer
systems, operating systems and their
security is their favorite pastime
Cyber Pumps: They are masters of
cryptography
Phreakers : They combine their in-depth
knowledge of the Internet and mass
telecommunication systems.

Types of attacks through Internet

Network pocket sniffers
IP spoofing
Fraud on Internet
Online Investment news letters
Bulletin words
Email Online Spam

Virus (Alteration or Destruction of

Digital Information)

Impact of Cyber Crime on work

culture and their result
Malfunctionality
Cyber Crime and Information
Technology Act2000
Contravention Relating Ele.Transaction,IT
Offence
Promoting Secure Electronics

CONTRAVENTOINS AND COMPENSATOINS/PENALTIES

Contraventions Accessing or
securing access to the
computer/network, Downloading any
data or information from the
computer/network, Introducing or
causing to be introduced any
computer contaminant or computer
VIRUS into the computer/network.

Types of Hacking
Cyber Murders
Effect on Government Site
Manipulating Stock Market
Transmission of Virus
Crashing of Site
Hacking Ordinary Site

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