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LeT terrorists aimed to attack the India Military Academy with help of cyber terrorism tools. It was informed that the recent encounter of LeT militants and subsequent investigations revealed that they had been using the most advanced tools in Cyber terrorism - coded emails to communicate and receive instructions from their superiors sitting in Nepal.
This the new face of techno terrorism that India has fallen victim to in the last few years and to make the people aware of the new national threat Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra, organized a three day training course in Cyber Crime, Cyber laws and Informational Technology.
"This workshop aims towards creating awareness about the subject among all sections of society as more and more people become aware with use and consequence of virtual space, directly or indirectly influencing their life. It deals specifically with issues of cyber-terrorism and cyber warfare with reference to the Army," elucidated Avdhash Kaushal, chairperson of RLEK. He was addressing the opening of an introductory course on Cyber Crime, Cyber Law and Information Technology being held at RLEK auditorium during the 12-14 March 2005. K.V. Rao Deputy Director, CAPART inaugurated the event. During his inaugural speech, Rao offered RLEK to help CAPART in the implementation of its new educational policy focusing on issues related to Cyber crime and Cyber Law. Besides, he also requested RLEK conduct similar training of its senior officers and other members from all over the country.
"We are specifically focusing on three groups. The armed forces including the police as they are the first people to respond in case of a crime; Media because all media communication and editing is done through computers. However, the workshop is laying emphasis on the common man because one way or the other his life is affected by computer, be it filing tax returns or for paying electricity bills" said Salman Waris. Salman specializes in the subject and holds a degree in law and Cyber crime from University of Essex.
Pallavi Bahuguna, a law graduate from Symbiosis Society's Law College, Pune, elaborated on the basics of computers and concepts related to it.
A.S. Ramachandra, a former faculty at Judicial Academy, Bhopal and Lal Bahadur Shashtri Academy, Mussoorie, talked about the concept of crime and cyber crime and the principles applied for computer related crimes where computer is used as a tool and where computer is used as a target. He emphasized the heavy penalties that are prescribed by information technology act for some crimes where computer is used as a target like introducing virus, damaging computer or data and hacking.
The participants displayed concern towards the sensitive issue and clarified various doubts regarding the subject. Senior Officers from the Army Signals Corps, EME, scientists, academics, bankers, media persons and NGO functionaries are attending this significant course.
Day two of the course involved discussions on use of E-mail with 512-bit encryption as a tool by the terrorist. Besides that there was a detailed presentation on how to configure the e-mail options to block SPAM and how to trace the sender of a harassing email.
Shadab Mansoori made a brief presentation on the basics of Internet with a brief introduction and World Wide Web (WWW) including browser usage, various downloading techniques, and printing of web documents etc. The presentation also dealt with means of communication, popular applications on the net.
A.S Ramachandra in his address elucidated on indecent representation of women and children and laws to combat it in Indian as well as international context. Apart from that he emphasized the need for multi-led governance programmes including a mixture of national and international legislations and self-imposed regulations by Internet Service Providers and users.
"I would like the RLEK team to conduct an exclusive workshop for the police personnel. The police needs to be equipped to deal with these issues specifically as they are the first who are reported about crimes. Learning is the essence of today's time and especially when reasonably priced. RLEK has done a excellent job in this endeavour," complimented Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya, Director General of Police, Uttaranchal. She was speaking on the final day of introductory Course on Cyber Crime, Cyber Law and Information Technology. RLEK chairperson readily accepted the invitation.
The three-day event concluded amidst much fervour at the RLEK auditorium on 14 March 2005.
There was a session specifically dealing with Armed Forces and Police personnels, which focused on issues related to cyber-terrorism and cyber warfare. "The use of technology and cyber tools to destroy the command and control systems of the enemies has been ongoing for the past decade. The potential of 'PHYOPS' in killing the enemy mentally without even one bullet being fired and even before ground operations have actually begun is significant", was emphasized on. Salman Waris further explained the concepts of E-Commerce and Digital signature.
A.S. Ramachandra updated the participants on Offences and Penalties under the Information Technology Act, 2000 aimed at explaining to the participants the nature of offences that fall under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the punishment, which can be imposed for such offences. He elucidated how small acts like switching on a computer system or downloading data without the permission of the owner or the person in charge of the computer system fall within the preview of offences under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and a the offender committing such an offence shall be liable to pay damages to the affected person by way of compensation not exceeding one crore rupees. He further emphasized distinctions between malware like Virus, Worm, Trojan Horse and Love Bug.
Jacques Den Ridder, a banker with a prominent bank in Netherlands acted as a resource person and spoke about his experiences in dealing with cyber crime as a banker and emphasized on significance of passwords and their confidentiality.
Though the method employed was essentially presentations they were followed up by interactive discussions.
"It was an unique opportunity for many to become aware towards various Internet related crimes, laws that are in place to combat them and loopholes existing in the present provisions. I am glad that people found it useful and demand for more such workshops is catching ground", said Avdhash Kaushal, chairman RLEK.
Malavika Bhandari, Shadab Mansoori, Pallavi Bahuguna and Shailesh Dhyani also gave their valuable inputs in this first time ever cyber crime workshop in Uttaranchal. All trainers are a part of the legal cell at RLEK who are working on Panchayati Raj jurisprudence, reviewing the State Panchayati Raj Acts and their consistency with the 73rd Constitutional Amendment and other central acts.