Assam Violence & Cyber Crime

Three websites with provocative content blocked The cyber crime investigation cell (CCIC) of the city police has blocked three websites that were showing provocative videos of violence against Muslims in Myanmar. The police have also identified at least 25 videos on various websites that show killing of Muslims in Assam and Myanmar. The duration of the videos is between six...

Indian Student at Livepool pleads guilty...

An Indian-origin student of Liverpool John Moores University charged with hacking into it’s computer system has pleaded guilty. He was booked under Computer Misuse Act, 1990 for gaining unauthorised access to a computer with intent to commit fraud by false representation. The accused, 22 year old, Charantoor Kultar Singh from Manchester was arrested by officers from the...

Software Enginner arrested for sending o...

A software engineer Senthil, based at Coimbatore has been arrested, surprizingly for the second time, for sending threatening emails to Educational Institutions and Hospitals located within the city about planting of bomb explosives. Read more @ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/coimbatore/Software-engineer-held-for-sending-email-bomb-threats/articleshow/15462404.cms

Education foundation registers a case un...

A Delhi based educational foundation, having branches across India has become the latest victim of online defamatory content, with anonymous person putting up videos & pictures of the foundation’s employees meet with derogatory comments in Rave Parties section on Youtube and some other website. The said foundation has approached the Delhi cyber crime cell, which has...

Cyber Crime gaining ground in new areas ...

China has experienced a sharp rise in cybercrime and is seeing a new breed of Internet criminals as illegal sales of weapons and porn flourish online, a senior security official has said. Added that cases of cybercrime have increased by an average of 30 percent each year since 2008. “Authorities are seeing a new kind of criminal behavior in cyberspace, with an increase in the...

WordPress Hijacking through Banner Scam

As you maybe aware that WordPress is a open source software for weblogs. The Hackers have come up with a new strategy to hijack your wordpress by offering you Banner Advertisement. Recently, Archer Softech has received a similar email for one of it’s other legal site, as follows: Hi, We are looking for new advertisement platforms and we are interested in your site...