CYBER CRIME & INVESTIGATIONS

Course Objectives

This course focusses on two aspects of Cyber Security: analysis and assessment of risk plus how to minimize it, and, how to extract and use digital information from a wide range of systems and devices. The course is structured so that all students cover the same introductory material, but then choose to specialize in either Cyber Security or Digital Forensics. Any aforesaid science graduate who requires keen interest & knowledge of IT programming languages with basic knowledge of math beyond calculus.

Course Outcomes

COURSE OUTCOMES:

SNO	DESCRIPTION	PO MAPPING
CO1	Analyze and evaluate the cyber security needs of an organization.	PO1, PO2, PO5, PO6, PO11, PO12
CO2	Understand the significance of Determine and analyze software vulnerabilities and security solutions to reduce the risk of exploitation	PO1, PO2, PO4, PO5, PO11
CO3	Understand Critically evaluate standards and good practices for digital evidence and digital forensics	PO1,PO2, PO5, PO6, PO7

Course Syllabus

MSCS1104-CYBER CRIME & INVESTIGATIONS

MODULE (I):

Cyber Crime–Definition, Nature and Extent of Cyber Crimes in India and other countries – Classification of Cyber Crimes–Differences between conventional crimes and cybercrimes - Trends in Cyber Crimes across the world.

MODULE (II):

Forms of Cyber Crimes, Frauds–Cyber bullying, hacking, cracking, DoS–viruses, works, bombs, logical bombs, time bombs, email bombing, data diddling, salami attacks, phishing, steganography,cyberstalking,spoofing, cyberpornography,defamation, computer vandalism, crimesthroughsocialnetworking sites,malwares, socialengineering,creditcardfrauds&financial frauds, telecom frauds.Cloud based, E-commerceFraudsand otherforms.

MODULE (III):

Profile of Cyber criminals–Cyber Crime Psychology–Psychological theories dealing with cybercrimes-Learning, Motivation, personality and intelligence theories of cyber criminals – Criminal profiling. Impact of cybercrimes – Economic, Psychological and Sociological impact on individual, corporate and companies, government and the nation.

MODULE (IV):

Modus Operandi of various cyber crimes and frauds–Modus Operandi-Fraud triangle–fraud detection techniques-countermeasures. Intrusion Analysis, Intrusion Analysis as a Core Skill set, Methods to Performing Intrusion Analysis, Intrusion Kill Chain, Passively Discovering Activity in Historical Data and Logs, Detecting Future Threat Actions and Capabilities, Denying Access to Threats, Delaying and Degrading Adversary Tactics and Malware, Identifying Intrusion Patterns and Key Indicators.

TEXT BOOK:

Cybercrime and Espionage: An Analysis of Subversive Multi-Vector Threats by Will Gragido, John Pirc, 1^st edition, Syngress, 7 January 2011.
Cyber Crime & Warfare: All That Matters by Peter Warren, Michael Streeter, Kindle Edition, Hodder & Stoughton, 26 July 2013.
Digital Evidence and computer crime by Eoghan Casey, 3rd Edition, Academic Press Publication, 17 June 2011.

REFERRENCE BOOK:

The Psychology of Cyber Crime: Concepts and Principles by Grainne Kirwan, Andrew Power, 1^st edition, Business Science Reference, 15 March 2012
Cyber Law of Information Technology and Internet (Lexix Nexis) Anirudh Rastogi Understanding Laws–Cyber Laws and Cyber Crimes (Lexix Nexis).

Cyber Crime Manual by Bibhas Chatterjee, Lawman Publication.