Syllabus - Cyber Crime Investigation & Digital Forensic (CY601)

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.

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, crimes through social networking sites, malwares, social engineering, credit card frauds & financial frauds, telecom frauds. Cloud based, E-commerce Frauds and other forms.

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.

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.