By Cyber Lawyer on May 10, 2010
Investigations started in Germany in September 2009, when German Police tracked the IP address to India in respect of some Child Pornography matter. And the Police alerted the Interpol, which through CBI, forwarded the matter to Mumbai Police. After completing the investigations, the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell raided the flat of the 42 year old lieutenant [...]
Posted in Cyber Crime, Cyber Laws, India
By Cyber Lawyer on April 30, 2010
An Indian national was sentenced today to 81 months in prison on conspiracy and aggravated identity theft charges arising from an international fraud scheme to “hack” into online brokerage accounts in the United States and use those accounts to manipulate stock prices, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. [...]
Posted in Cyber Crime, Judgement/Court Decisions, USA
By Cyber Lawyer on April 28, 2010
Symantec in its “Internet Security Threat” 2009 report has ranked India 5th in malicious activity, i.e. a climb of six places. India is the highest spam originating country in the world, contributing 4 per cent to the worldwide spam volumes, while the country ranks first in the Asian region. On the basis of web-based attacks, [...]
Posted in Asia, Cyber Crime, India
By Cyber Lawyer on April 18, 2010
‘Phishing’ is a form of Cyber Crime wherein criminals attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, credit card details, etc by pretending as a trustworthy entity like Banks, etc in an electronic communication, especially emails. The trend of Phishing has increased over the years, though decisions has been very rare. But the recent [...]
Posted in Cyber Crime, India
By Cyber Lawyer on March 15, 2010
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), released the 2009 Annual Report about fraudulent activity on the Internet on 12 March 2010. Online crime complaints increased substantially once again last year, according to the report. The IC3 received a total of 336,655 complaints, [...]
Posted in Cyber Crime
By Cyber Lawyer on March 7, 2010
A recent FIR registered with Delhi Police, points how a weak password can sometimes lead to loss of business profits. In the said matter… it is alleged by the complainant that the hacker has contaminated the complainant’s computer with viruses, business and personal emails have been hacked, downloaded all the critical business information and have [...]
Posted in Cyber Crime, Cyber Laws, India
By Cyber Lawyer on February 10, 2010
The beginning of 2010 saw some of the Big portals complaining about Data Theft and took legal recourse… first matter was between Travel Portals – Travelocity.co.in V. ClearTrip.com and secondly between Yellow Pages – JustDial V. Infomedia (network 18 group). In the Travel Portal matter, Travelocity has filed an FIR with Gurgaon Poilce against CEO, [...]
Posted in Court Decision, Cyber Crime, Cyber Laws, India | Tagged Cyber Crime, Data Theft, India
By Cyber Lawyer on February 8, 2010
On Sunday, visitors to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) website were taken for a hacker’s surprize as the HomePage of the website greeted visitors with a ‘For Sale’ message. It has been reported that the problem was at Domain Registrar as no servers were compromised but it was a case of DNS hijacking. According to the wikipedia: [...]
Posted in Cyber Crime, Cyber Laws, India | Tagged Asia, Computer Hacking, Cyber Crime, Cyber Law, Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008
By Cyber Lawyer on February 5, 2010
Web is buzzing with news of alliance between Google with National Security Alliance. It says that Google is teaming up with the agency for cyber security reasons… specifically to investigate into a corporate espionage attack, that originated in China. The partnership strikes at the core of one of the most sensitive issues for the government and [...]
Posted in Cyber Crime, Google, USA
By Cyber Lawyer on February 2, 2010
Hon’ble Law Minister Mr Veerappa Molly while addressing a seminar for Judges, head of Police force and prosecution of state, called for Cyber Crime Police on National Level on the lines of US and South Korea. Further he pressed for special training for the Police force, so that they are better equipped and trained to deal [...]
Posted in Cyber Crime, Cyber Laws, India
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