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CY-601 · Cyber Crime Investigation & Digital Forensic/Official Syllabus

Cyber Crime Investigation & Digital Forensic (CY-601) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Cyber Crime Definition, Nature and Extent

  • Cyber Crime - Definition
  • Nature of Cyber Crimes
  • 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
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Unit 2

Forms of Cyber Crimes, Frauds

  • 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
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Unit 3

Profile of Cyber criminals

  • Profile of Cyber criminals
  • Cyber Crime Psychology
  • Psychological theories dealing with cybercrimes
  • Learning
  • Motivation
  • personality and intelligence theories of cyber criminals
  • Criminal profiling
  • Economic
  • Psychological and Sociological impact on individual, corporate and companies, government and the nation
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Unit 4

Modus Operandi of various cyber crimes and frauds

  • 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

Reference Books

  • Cyber Crime Investigation & Digital Forensic, An Introduction, second edition
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