Click to play videoNew Delhi: Just minutes before terror struck in Uttar Pradesh on November 23, an email was shot off to television channels.
A day later, another email was sent, this time threatening a series of explosions across India including an attack on the visiting Pakistani cricket team. Both the emails are warnings investigating agencies are trying to trace back to their senders.
"We use a lot of cyber forensics to arrive at the picture as to who was or which computer was used. But as you know, there are several service providers who do not keep records properly, then there is a problem,” says S P K Singh, Additional Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch.
The email ahead of Friday blasts was sent from the ID guru_alhind@yahoo.fr. Now this French domain name could either belong to someone in France or someone sitting anywhere else.
When it comes to tracking terror emails, the key lies in identifying the IP address, the numeric code that uniquely identifies a particular computer on the Internet.
From details in the email, the IP address is then traced back to an Internet Service Provider (ISP).
Finally, the ISP is questioned as to which subscriber it allocated the particular IP address to.
If the subscriber is a cybercafe owner, as in the case of the Uttar Pradesh e-mail, the task gets tougher.
“We are way behind in R&D with regard to cyber security appariti,” says Yashwant Deva, a cyber security expert.
At times, the ISP is located beyond our borders and since India is not a signatory to the Convention on Cyber Crime, tracking the source then becomes more difficult.
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