Power Grid failure in India, topic of Cy...

Power grid failure features in US lawmakers’ cyber law debate The US needs to learn lessons from the massive blackouts in India, top US lawmakers have said, pushing for the passage of a law on cyber security even though the Indian power crisis is not the result of any cyber-attack. “All one needs to do is look at what is going on in India today. There are no cyber...

Microsoft & Apple claim back XBOX 8...

Microsoft & Apple claim back XBOX 8 and IPAD3 domains respectively. Microsoft has settled a number of disputes over domain names owned by a Chinese resident. Few like XboxPhone.com, XboxTablet.com, XboxLiveTV.com and XboxCompanion.com, Microsoft has gained control of a couple of domains that some commentators are suggesting provides hints to its next generation console....

ICANN publishes list of New gTLD Strings

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) received a total of 1930 applications, after refunds, for new generic top-level domains. -> 1846 of those are “standard” applications. -> 84 are designated as “community-based”. Of the 1930, 66 have designated themselves as geographic name applications. 116 applications are Internationalized Domain Names, or...

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 Department of...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arreste...

The 29 year old ‘Julian Assange’, founder of the controversial WikiLeaks was arrested by British Police, being wanted by Sweden Police for sexual offences… and is supposed to be sent to Sweden, as his bail was rejected by British Court. The arrest has received harsh criticism from all around the world, as violative of free speech. WikiLeaks, which was founded in...

P2P limewire music service shut down by ...

Manhattan Federal Court granted the music industy request to shut down the Limewire sharing service, which was liable for copyright infrngement, as it allowed sharing of music, movies, TV shows, etc for free over the Internet. Ofcourse, this is not something new as violating softwares have always been on target of famous music labels in US and Europe. Saying that LimeWire’s parent...