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17MCSC09 CYBER SECURITY AND CYBER LAW

with their officials. To conflict with this issue government have to promote some officials
who are experts and consists of a sound or good knowledge of cybercrimes, solution for

it and also last but not least an official also consists of a fine knowledge of cyber laws
and its implementation. For which they firstly have to know about search and seizure of Notes
digital evidence and after that they should get aware of how to preserve these evidences.

1.3 Origin of Cyber Crime

It is believed the first recorded cybercrime took place in the year 1820. This can be true
with the fact that, computer did exist since 3500 BC in India, China and Japan. The
modern computer began with the analytical engine of Charles Babbage.
Banks and other financial institutions were amongst the first large scale computer

users in the private sector, for automate payroll and accounting functions. Therefore,
fraud in a computer scheme merged. One of the first cases cited as an instance of the
computer fraud involved equity-funding Corporation in the US, fraud was simple. The
frauds succeed because the auditors and regulators accepted computer printouts as
definitive evidence of policies and did not ask original documentation. When the fraud
was discovered, some 64,000 out of 97,000 policies allegedly issued by the company
proved to be false, almost 1 Billion pounds estimated to be the loss.
Therefore as the technological advance, the number of cybercrime cases increased.
There is no reliable and precise statistics of the losses the victims gain as the fact that
victims do not detect many of these crimes. Therefore, fights against computer crime

began. Several individuals were engaged in the fight against computer crime from the
early development. The founder and father of the knowledge of computer crimes are
by many observers considered to be Donn B. Parker, USA. He was involved in the
research of computer crime and security from the early 1970. He served as a Senior
Computer Security Consultant at the SRI International (Stanford Research Institute),
and was the main author of the first basic federal manual for law enforcement in the
USA: Computer Crime –Criminal

Justice Resource Manual (1979). This manual became so on an encyclopedia also
for law enforcement outside US.

1.4 What is Cyber Law?

Cyber Law is the law governing cyber space. Cyber space is a very wide term and
includes computers, networks, software, data storage devices.
(Such as hard disks, USB disks etc.), the Internet, websites, emails and even
electronic devices such as cell phones, ATM machines etc. Law encompasses the rules
of conduct:

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