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Cyber Laws Syllabus:
UNIT – I
1.1 Introduction: History of Internet and World Wide Web
1.2 Need for cyber law, Cybercrime on the rise
1.3 Important terms related to cyber law
1.4 Cyber law in India: Need for cyber law in India
1.5 History of cyber law in India
1.6 Information Technology Act, 2000
1.7 Overview of other laws amended by the IT Act, 2000
1.8 National Policy on Information Technology 2012.
UNIT - II
2.1 Overview Of The Information Technology Act, 2000: Applicability of the Act
2.2 Important provisions of the Act: Digital signature and electronic signature
2.3 Digital Signature under the IT Act, 2000
2.4 EGovernance Attribution
2.5 Acknowledgement and Dispatch of Electronic Records
2.6 Certifying Authorities
2.7 Electronic Signature Certificates
2.8 Duties of Subscribers
2.9 Penalties and Offences
2.10 Intermediaries.
UNIT - III
3.1 Overview of Rules Issued Under the It Act, 2000
3.2 Electronic Commerce
3.3 Electronic Contracts
3.4 Cyber Crimes
3.5 Cyber Frauds.
UNIT - IV
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4.1 Regulatory Authorities: Department of Electronics and Information Technology
4.2 Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA)
4.3 Cyber Appellate Tribunal
4.4 Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (ICERT)
4.5 Cloud Computing
4.6 Case Laws.
UNIT - V
5.1 Introduction To Cybercrime And Procedure To Report Cybercrime: Procedure To Report Cyber
Crime
5.2 Some Basic Rules For Safe Operations Of The Computer And Internet
5.3 The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013: Legislative Remedies For Online Harassment And
Cyberstalking In India.
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Unit-I
1. History of the Internet and World Wide Web
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the
standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). It is a network of networks
that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and
government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires,
fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other technologies. The Internet
carries a vast array of information resources and services, most notably the
inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the
infrastructure to support electronic mail, in addition to popular services such
as online chat, file transfer and file sharing, online gaming, and Voice over
Internet Protocol (VoIP) person-to-person communication via voice and video.
The origins of the Internet dates back to the 1960s when the United States
funded research projects of its military agencies to build robust, fault-
tolerant and distributed computer networks.
The terms Internet and World Wide Web are often used in everyday speech
without much distinction. However, the Internet and the World Wide Web
are not one and the same. The Internet is a global data communications
system. It is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides connectivity
between computers. In contrast, the Web is one of the services communicated
via the Internet. It is a collection of interconnected documents and other
resources, linked by hyperlinks and Uniform Resource Locator [URLs].
The World Wide Web was invented in 1989 by the English physicist Tim
Berners-Lee, now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, and later
assisted by Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist, while both were
working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1990, they proposed building a
"web of nodes" storing "hypertext pages" viewed by "browsers" on a
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network and released that web in December.
Overall Internet usage has seen tremendous growth. From 2000 to 2009, the
number of Internet users globally rose from 394 million to 1.858 billion. By
2010, 22 percent of the world's population had access to computers with 1
billion Google searches every day, 300 million Internet users reading blogs,
and 2 billion videos viewed daily on YouTube.
1.2 Need for Cyber law:
In today’s techno-savvy environment, the world is becoming more and more
digitally sophisticated and so are the crimes. Internet was initially developed
as a research and information sharing tool and was in an unregulated
manner. As the time passed by it became more transactional with e-
business, e-commerce, e-governance and e-procurement etc. All legal issues
related to internet crime are dealt with through cyber laws. As the number
of internet users is on the rise, the need for cyber laws and their application
has also gathered great momentum.
In today's highly digitalized world, almost everyone is affected by cyber law. For
example:
• Almost all transactions in shares are in demat form.
• Almost all companies extensively depend upon their computer networks and
keep their valuable data in electronic form.
• Government forms including income tax returns, company law forms etc. are
now filled in electronic form.
• Consumers are increasingly using credit cards for shopping.
• Most people are using email, cell phones and SMS messages for
By: K. Sridhar Email:
Cyber Laws Syllabus:
UNIT – I
1.1 Introduction: History of Internet and World Wide Web
1.2 Need for cyber law, Cybercrime on the rise
1.3 Important terms related to cyber law
1.4 Cyber law in India: Need for cyber law in India
1.5 History of cyber law in India
1.6 Information Technology Act, 2000
1.7 Overview of other laws amended by the IT Act, 2000
1.8 National Policy on Information Technology 2012.
UNIT - II
2.1 Overview Of The Information Technology Act, 2000: Applicability of the Act
2.2 Important provisions of the Act: Digital signature and electronic signature
2.3 Digital Signature under the IT Act, 2000
2.4 EGovernance Attribution
2.5 Acknowledgement and Dispatch of Electronic Records
2.6 Certifying Authorities
2.7 Electronic Signature Certificates
2.8 Duties of Subscribers
2.9 Penalties and Offences
2.10 Intermediaries.
UNIT - III
3.1 Overview of Rules Issued Under the It Act, 2000
3.2 Electronic Commerce
3.3 Electronic Contracts
3.4 Cyber Crimes
3.5 Cyber Frauds.
UNIT - IV
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4.1 Regulatory Authorities: Department of Electronics and Information Technology
4.2 Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA)
4.3 Cyber Appellate Tribunal
4.4 Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (ICERT)
4.5 Cloud Computing
4.6 Case Laws.
UNIT - V
5.1 Introduction To Cybercrime And Procedure To Report Cybercrime: Procedure To Report Cyber
Crime
5.2 Some Basic Rules For Safe Operations Of The Computer And Internet
5.3 The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013: Legislative Remedies For Online Harassment And
Cyberstalking In India.
By: K. Sridhar Email:
,DRKCET Cyber Laws CSE-CS (R18) 3
Unit-I
1. History of the Internet and World Wide Web
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the
standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). It is a network of networks
that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and
government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires,
fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other technologies. The Internet
carries a vast array of information resources and services, most notably the
inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the
infrastructure to support electronic mail, in addition to popular services such
as online chat, file transfer and file sharing, online gaming, and Voice over
Internet Protocol (VoIP) person-to-person communication via voice and video.
The origins of the Internet dates back to the 1960s when the United States
funded research projects of its military agencies to build robust, fault-
tolerant and distributed computer networks.
The terms Internet and World Wide Web are often used in everyday speech
without much distinction. However, the Internet and the World Wide Web
are not one and the same. The Internet is a global data communications
system. It is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides connectivity
between computers. In contrast, the Web is one of the services communicated
via the Internet. It is a collection of interconnected documents and other
resources, linked by hyperlinks and Uniform Resource Locator [URLs].
The World Wide Web was invented in 1989 by the English physicist Tim
Berners-Lee, now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, and later
assisted by Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist, while both were
working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1990, they proposed building a
"web of nodes" storing "hypertext pages" viewed by "browsers" on a
By: K. Sridhar Email:
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network and released that web in December.
Overall Internet usage has seen tremendous growth. From 2000 to 2009, the
number of Internet users globally rose from 394 million to 1.858 billion. By
2010, 22 percent of the world's population had access to computers with 1
billion Google searches every day, 300 million Internet users reading blogs,
and 2 billion videos viewed daily on YouTube.
1.2 Need for Cyber law:
In today’s techno-savvy environment, the world is becoming more and more
digitally sophisticated and so are the crimes. Internet was initially developed
as a research and information sharing tool and was in an unregulated
manner. As the time passed by it became more transactional with e-
business, e-commerce, e-governance and e-procurement etc. All legal issues
related to internet crime are dealt with through cyber laws. As the number
of internet users is on the rise, the need for cyber laws and their application
has also gathered great momentum.
In today's highly digitalized world, almost everyone is affected by cyber law. For
example:
• Almost all transactions in shares are in demat form.
• Almost all companies extensively depend upon their computer networks and
keep their valuable data in electronic form.
• Government forms including income tax returns, company law forms etc. are
now filled in electronic form.
• Consumers are increasingly using credit cards for shopping.
• Most people are using email, cell phones and SMS messages for
By: K. Sridhar Email:
