With the expansion in the growth of technology, issues like information warfare, cyber warfare, and cyber espionage have raised the concern over the new forms of conflict. In order to keep a check on the criminals who compromise cyber security of nations, a distinct field of law i.e. cyber laws made its way in the cyber world. All these transformations are leading to the emergence of techno-legal community where the legal fraternity allies with cyber professionals in an attempt to integrate the challenges posed by cyber criminals. This paper puts forward technolegal approach in context to Indian scenario. First various network-related attacks are discussed briefly along with various attacking techniques mapped to the OSI model. Second, Information Technology Act, 2000 is scrutinized section wise on the basis of aforementioned attacks. Furthermore, different circumstances under which a cyber attack can be legally targeted at and performed are discussed from different perspectives. Also, a list of the hacking tools used by the attackers to launch these cyber attacks along with different laws applicable at different scenarios with a case study of each is detailed.
