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 have control not only over it’s Hosting account but Domain as well. Mostly, website owners are unaware of the fact that Domain Name control panel and Web Hosting control panels are mostly different. And the website development/hosting companies just provide access to the Hosting but never to the Domain Name Control Panel (which includes the transfer key), fearing they may lose a customer.

As a result, in many such cases the domain owner ends up losing the Domain. Because, firstly you never had control over the Domain and secondly, such companies use their own details in WHOIS info of the said domain… i.e. according to the public records, such company is owner of your Domain Name. So later, when a dispute arises… and in case you never retained the receipt, I am afraid you can’t do much !

Though, in case you have been victim of such an action, we can help you legally in claiming back the Domain. Please contact us here. And the existing Domain Name owners, you need to follow two simple steps, to make sure that you are the rightful owner of the Domain and remain so in the future…

1) Firstly, get hold of your Domain Name Control Panel details and if the company is not making available the same or is unable to provide it for whatever reasons, you should endevour to get hold of the Transfer Key or Secret Key of your Domain and get it transfer to a different company/registrar.

2) Secondly, you should check for the public records of the Domain, i.e. WHOIS info… and in case, you already have control over the Domain Name… you can change the details from within the Domain Name Control Panel.

You can check your domain name WHO IS here … and verify the ownership. Though, in some cases, the WHO IS information is protected by a feature called “Privacy Protect” and not visible, which is available for free @ ArcherSoftech.com with generic domain extensions like .Com, .Net, .Org but not with .IN or .Co.In domain Names, depending upon individual Domain Policies. In case of any such doubts, please contact your domain registrar.

If you are looking for registration of a new Domain Name or transfering of Domain Name, with an exclusing control panel so that you retain the ownership for always, please visit us here. Thanks !

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 consumerlaw.in.
Is it possible to place banner on your site on a fee basis?

Best regards,
Lilian Marchand

After sending the proposal, the following further replies were received:

Hello,
Thanks for reply to our proposal!

I represent Lemma Agency. At the moment we are preparing an advertising campaign for Lacoste Company (it is a French company producing clothes, footwear, perfumery etc.) We already have designed banners for the campaign, they are the following sizes: 160×600, 240×400, 300×250, 336×280, 468×60, 728×90.

What can be your price for one banner (banner should appear at ALL pages of your site) of abovementioned sizes (please specify the place for the banner – top, bottom, left, right)? Please mention a normal link for banner, without javascript code and set prices in US dollars per month.

Best regards,
Lilian Marchand.
site: www.lemmaagency.com
e-mail: lmarchand@lemmaagency.com
phone: + (0)9 78 62 24 83

Hi!
Thanks for reply to our proposal!

We like your price.
To pass to the banner control system follow the link http://webmaster.lemmaagency.com
To enter use the following data:

login: c*******law.in
password: KFEZ0966

You should install and activate the plugin in order to display advertisement. Before making payment, advertiser must approve location of the banner. The banner will be shown on your site when you add special code to your web- address (for example: http://c*******law.in/?adv_test=1). It means, that visitors will see the banner only if it is approved and payment made.

To get installation instruction for your site type pass to: http://docs.lemmaagency.com/wp_install
To activate your site you have to enter the code: GH2-NS5-4K6

What way of payment is suitable for you?

Best regards,
Lilian Marchand.
site: www.lemmaagency.com
e-mail: lmarchand@lemmaagency.com
phone: + (0)9 78 62 24 83

This is where the suspicion creeps in, because an advertiser will never offer you any code, but a simple graphical banner. Further, the hacker represents himself from Paris but his IP 69.172.131.212 points to city of Wilmington from Delaware (USA) using Pilosoft ISP, as follows:

Hacker Location

Further, in case we assume that hacker is using a proxy IP address, then the other information tracked, i.e. Language of recipient’s PC: ru-RU (Russian/Russia)… points to the fact that these hackers are Russians and even located in Russia too… from where numerous hacking attempts originate.

This another website provides more details as these kind of emails maybe generated in different names…. but their website looks the same. Some of the names used are: Jino Agency, Bevesto Agency, Marka Agency Kervel Agency, Kara Agency, Rita Aganecy, Lemma Agency and so on…

So next time you receive any such offer… just ignore such an offer, as in all the emails similar kind of language is use !

The court was hearing a petition filed by Yahoo India, which came in appeal before the high court challenging the CCA direction to pay Rs 11 lakh fine. The government had sought some information, on the grounds of national security, from CCA about some individuals including their email identities. The CCA asked Yahoo India to furnish the details.

“However, Yahoo India failed to provide the information for which it was fined by the CCA under Section 28 of the Information Technology (IT) Act. The authority also issued warning to Yahoo India,” said CCA.

CCA is not authorised to impose fine or penalty, said Yahoo India in its petition.

Appearing for Yahoo India, former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium said the firm had complied with the provision of Section 69 of the IT Act and had provided the information. “CCA is not authorised to impose fine or penalty,” said Yahoo India in its petition.

source: IBN Live

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 Homeland Security ( DHS) and India Department of Information Technology Secretary R Chandrashekhar in July 2011.

The MoU will establish the best practices for exchange of critical cyber security information and expertise between the two governments through the respective agencies. The MoU helps fulfill the commitment of both nations to advancing the global security and countering terrorism, one of the pillars of the US-India Strategic Dialogue, launched in July 2009.

more @

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-07-19/news/29790778_1_cyber-security-cert-fight-cyber

The fraud has been pegged at 2,000 crore and it has been claimed by Home Minister R.R. Patil that efforts will be made to return the money to the Investors, in view of a new law passed in this respect. The investors are required to apply to Economic Offence Wing in their city. Though, only time would tell, whether it would be practically possible or not, as money has already been funnelled abroad as reported by Media. The Speak asia has also claimed that they would soon implement an exit policy which would enable those panelists who wish to end their association with the company, to get an early refund. Further, surprizingly in a message on the website, Speak Asia CEO still claims soon to be back in business and continued relationship!

more @ http://www.indianexpress.com/news/speak-asia-fraud-rs-2-000-crore/825777/

But after controversial radia tapes leak, Government of India has decided to introduce an exhaustive law on privacy, known as “Right to Privacy”, which will soon be introduced before the parliament. This law provides for stringent punishment, including revocation of licences of telecom service providers, for illegally intercepting telephone calls and making their content public. This would be punishable with five years of imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1 Lakh.

The Bill defines “right to privacy as confidentiality of communication, family life, bank and health records, protection of honour and good name and protection from use of photographs, fingerprints, DNA samples and other samples taken at police stations and other places”. [courtesy: Deccan Chronicle]

The said bill would also be a blow to the illegal snooping done upon the citizens of India mostly by various private agency. Though, Government Employees won’t be spared, as head of the department would be held responsible in case of found circulating the intercepted data in public. Though, still Goverenment would enjoy privileges in the interest of the security of the state, etc. According to a recent statistics released by Google, Indian Government has been ranked third in Snooping through google, as reported by the Economic Times. Though only 22 percent of the requests have been accepted by Google, which resulted in removal of google search results, blogs, videos, etc.

The Bill may also serve as a proper guide to International Organizations like Google, whose Google Street View project has been stopped from taking any further pictures in the city of Bangalore for the Google Earth software.

… more of latest news in this month’s CyberLawTimes Newsletter @ http://www.cyberlawtimes.com/newsletter.html

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Blow Your Whistle is a technology supported fully transparent anti-corruption initiative of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), India’s apex vigilance institution dealing with all matters of Corruption in the Central Government. With a goal to help build TEAM India that will help in realising every ones dream of corruption free India.

WikiLeaks, which was founded in December 2006 with a prupose of publishing otherwise unavailable documents from anonymous news sources has been commended by various countries for its contribution as Whistle Blower until the United States diplomatic cables leak on 28 November 2010.

As a result, some group of hackers has declared cyber war (called “Operation Payback”) upon enemies of Wikilinks and hacked Mastercard, VISA, PayPal, the Swiss bank PostFinance, and Assange’s Swedish prosecutor’s website yesterday. And plan tpo target Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, etc. i.e. mostly US Websites. It all seems to be the first Cyber World War as reported by Times of India.