CCA issues notices to MSN, Google and Ya...

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 on search results on...

Video: Cyber crime case in Hyderabad

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 formed the basic evidence and led to his...

PayPal enters into settlement with RBI, ...

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 right to carry on their operations, unless they obtained...

Email Password Security & Legal Iss...

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 attempted to contact their...

US Court fixes location of Domain Name b...

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 and...

Indian Web Portal Wars – Data Thef...

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, Cleartrip and former...