Domain Name Ownership & WHOIS Info

Do you own a domain ? If yes, then read on… A Domain Name has become an important asset for an organization, as it represents a business/brand name online and has a goodwill attached to it. So loosing it, especially after a number of years of use, may give you jitters for a lifetime ! When you get a website made by a Website Designing Company … it is necessary to...

India-US sign MOU on deal with cyber cri...

India and US have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to fight cyber crime jointly by timely exchange of information between the Computer Emergencies Team of both Countries, namely Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). The agreement was signed by Jane Holl Lute, Deputy Secretary for the US...

Speak Asia Fiasco

Speak Asia, the biggest online scam in the country, has finally landed into the Police Net, by the arrest of its COO and other executives for running a Ponzi scheme, after they dodged the investors for over few months period by making dubious claims. Though they were released on bail after 3 weeks. A complaint was made against Speak Asia for allegedly duping over 15 lakh...

Privacy Law & India

Till late, privacy was governed by the consitution of India, considered as fundamental right guranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution of India and many precedents have been laid in this regard by Supreme Court of India. And it has also been included to some extent under section 43A Information Technology Act, which deals with sensitive personal data contained in a computer...

Draft Rules under Section 43A & Sec...

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India have put up draft rules under section 43A and 79 of Information Technology Act, 2000 on its website: mit.gov.in for public comments by 28 February, 2011.Section 43A provides for compensation for failure to protect sensitive personal data by body corporates, who are expected to implement and maintain resonable...

South Delhi Police nabs hackers for onli...

Three persons, including two foreign nationals, were arrested for allegedly hacking into e-banking accounts and buying expensive electronic items through these accounts. The accused were nabbed in south Delhi and eight laptops, 10 digital cameras and 17 BlackBerry cellphones worth around Rs 10 lakh was recovered from them. The arrested have been identified Praveen Gupta (27), a Nepali...