By Cyber Lawyer on July 25, 2010
With computer networks increasingly viewed as a realm for spying and warfare, the U.S., China, Russia and a dozen other countries have outlined principles on how to improve so-called “cybersecurity.” Diplomats finalized a set of proposals to the United Nations Friday. The steps include developing international standards for conduct over the Internet, sharing information about [...]
Posted in Cyber Laws
By Cyber Lawyer on May 21, 2010
A Pakistani court ordered temporary blocking of Facebook.com on Wednesday due to the controversies over a competition for caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. And the next day on Thursday, similar order has been passed for the blocking of YouTube.com… the Pakistan Government has urged the international community to address the issue at the earliest, as [...]
Posted in Asia, Cyber Laws
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 27, 2010
The Department of Information Technology has informed that the Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA), and authority under the then section 69 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 had directed M/s Google India, M/s Yahoo India and M/s Microsoft (MSN Search Engine) to ensure that no advertisements of sponsored links in respect of sex selection appear [...]
Posted in Cyber Laws, Google, India
By Cyber Lawyer on March 28, 2010
Software expert tried to take revenge against a women, who turned down his marriage proposal, falls into cyber crime cell net. Engineer had put obscene profiles of the victim on various networking sites like Facebook and Orkut and also sent letter through post containing morphed pictures of the girl, with written message in Telgu, which [...]
Posted in Cyber Laws | Tagged Asia, Cyber Crime, Facebook, Hyderabad, India, Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008, Networking, Orkut, Video
By Cyber Lawyer on March 9, 2010
Recently, RBI had suspended PayPal services in India, because it did not comply with the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007. This Act stipulated that no person other than the RBI can commence or operate a payment system, except with an authorization issued by the RBI and exiting payment systems would cease to have the [...]
Posted in Cyber Laws, India
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 March 4, 2010
United State Court Of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Office Depot v. Zuccarini In December 2000, Office Depot obtained a judgment against Zuccarini under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act of 1999 (“ACPA”), 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d), rising out of Zuccarini’s registration of the domain name “officdepot.com.” Office Depot was unable to collect on the judgment [...]
Posted in Court Decision, Cyber Laws, USA
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
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