Cyber Crime Statistics The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recently came out with annual report for the year 2006. Some of the highlights from the report are as follows: Total 207,492 complaints filed claimed of loosing $198.4 million. Nearly 45 percent of the complaints involved online auction fraud. US tops the list with U.K., Nigeria, Canada, Romania, and Italy to follow. Click here to download the report in PDF format On the other hand, Delhi Cyber Crime Cell came up with its own statistics reporting a 255 percent increase in reported cyber crimes. Out of which total of 17 cases related to hacking, obscenity, e-commerce fraud and Internet-related crimes were registered. Related News U.S. Leads World in Cyber Crime Cyber Crime Raging in Asia India: Police receives support for cyber crime prevention A 255 percent increase in cyber crimes in Delhi - India China: Legislation against cyber crimes "pressing job" India: Most of cyber crimes go unreported Cybercrime must be a priority Crime pays - and pays very well in cyberspace

India 1. Plan to issue e-mail summons Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan has stressed the need for allocating 10 per cent of the Plan funds of State governments for developing infrastructure for the judiciary... Read Story | Discuss 2. Yahoo aplologizes for plagiarising cookery notes An angry blogger community in Kerala has forced an apology out of Yahoo for lifting half a dozen cookery notes verbatim from Kariveppila (curry leaves), an independent blog site by Suryagayatri, a Kannur-based housewife in Kerala... Read Story | Discuss 3. Man arrested in a cyber fraud case The city police arrested a 27-year-old man for allegedly cheating a Mumbai based software engineer through the Internet by posing as a woman and stealing money from his bank account... Read Story | Discuss 4. 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Ideas behind computer games can be copied, says Court of Appeal General ideas and structures behind computer games and programs can be copied as long as the source code and graphics are not, the Court of Appeal has ruled... Read Story | Discuss 3. Oracle sues SAP for 'grand scale' theft Oracle sued SAP AG recently for "corporate theft on a grand scale," claiming its business software rival used customers' online access codes to steal copyrighted software... Read Story | Discuss 4. Video-Game Pirate Gets Four Month Prison Sentence U.S. District Court sentenced Don Perreira, 27, to four months in prison, four months home detention and three years of supervised release following his August 16, 2006, guilty plea to two counts of criminal copyright infringement. Perreira modded Xbox systems and loaded them with illegal copies of games, which were then sold for a profit... Read Story | Discuss 5. Governor's top-priority crime bill sails in House Gov. 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