Ministry's website hacked over online porn law Indonesia's parliament on 25 March passed a new information bill that criminalises the transmission of pornographic material on the web. In response, hackers defaced the website of Indonesia's information ministry. The hackers posted a message on the information ministry's website, saying: 'Prove that the law has not been made to cover government stupidity.' But later, the website could not be accessed, and would-be viewers were met only with the message, 'Access has been denied.' This is first of its kind protest, which goes to show the limit to which hackers can go against the restrictions imposed by the cyber laws of a country. The Indonesian Ministry - Information and Communication said "the law was a response to concerns in society about the negative impact of pornographic and violent sites as more Indonesians gain access to the internet." Read More Advertisement .ASIA Domain Names Registration now open ! Visit us at: ArcherSoftech.com You can advertise here. Contact Us for more details...

India 1. India, Vietnam sign MoU for bilateral cooperation on security India and Vietnam signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for bilateral cooperation on security matters which would include international terrorism, illicit drug trafficking and trans-national crime. Read Story | Discuss 2. CBI meet focuses on cyber crime If one is a victim of cyber crime, one can file a direct individual complaint with the CBI. This was revealed by the special joint director of CBI, M L Sharma, at the inauguration of an 18-day ‘train the trainers’ workshop on Information Technology in crime investigation. Read Story | Discuss 3. Police's e-plaint system goes flat City police's internationally acclaimed on-line complaint facility, available on its official website has remained a much low-key affair in the public life so far with little awareness about its existence. Read Story | Discuss 4. Man arrested for lureing investors with fake webpage of Reliance Comm The cyber crime cell (CCC) of the Mumbai crime branch arrested a 36-year-old marketing executive from Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh for allegedly trying to lure investors by creating a fake webpage of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG). Read Story | Discuss 5. Gujarat to get its first cyber crime police station Gujarat's first dedicated cyber crime police station is to come up in Ahmedabad, with the state ministry of home earmarking finances for it in the recent budget. Read Story | Discuss 6. Kerala State IT & C-DAC have lanched cybercrime website Kerala State IT & C-DAC has lanched a web site CyberKeralam.in and a call center (phone number 0471- 2727004) to fight against cyber crime and also provide information on cyber crime.The state IT is planning to deploy e-mail tracer software at all Akshaya centers in the State. The government has plans to install cyber forensic tools in 100 police stations across the state. Read Story | Discuss USA 1. Missouri Senate passes cyber harassment bill The Missouri Senate has passed a bill designed to protect children from being harassed or stalked online. Under the bill, an adult who harasses a child via the Internet or other electronic media would face a felony charge. Read Story | Discuss 2. FBI to Create International Cyber-Law Enforcement Agency During the last decade, organized crime has collaborated amongst the various sects (Italian, Russian, Columbian, etc) according to their various specialties across international jurisdictions and boundaries, much to the consternation of law enforcement of all nationalities. What’s even worse is the explosion of digital crimes that take place on a grand scale, thanks to advances in the Internet and communication technology. Read Story | Discuss 3. US election sparks cyber-squatting frenzy The lead up to the US presidential election has seen a dramatic surge in cyber-squatters keen to cash in on the public's thirst for information. Domain name management service NetNames said that over 1,900 domain names related to the presidential candidates have been registered as online speculators try to cash in on the heightened media coverage. Read Story | Discuss 4. US military raises alarm on cyber attacks The US military is increasingly concerned about cyber-espionage and cyber attacks as hackers across the globe attempt to steal military information, according to the head of US Strategic Command. Read Story | Discuss 5. Air Force asks YouTube to change videos Wired magazine’s Threat Level blog, whose author posted the video in question on YouTube, posted on Wednesday a copy of a complaint reportedly sent to YouTube’s corporate offices in San Bruno, Calif. The legal notice, drafted by a lawyer at the firm Reed Smith LLP at the behest of the Air Force, demanded that YouTube take down the video, as it presented a copyright violation. Read Story | Discuss 6. Company cleans up cyber-reputations Negative content posted online can do a lot of damage and can last forever, but there's a remedy ! Read Story | Discuss Europe 1. German court limits cyber spying Germany's highest court has restricted the right of the security services to spy on the computers of suspected criminals and terrorists. Under the technique, software sent in an email enables the authorities to spy on a suspect's computer hard drive. Read Story | Discuss 2. Estonia calls for EU law to combat cyber attacks Estonia called on the European Union on Wednesday to make cyber attacks a criminal offense to stop Internet users from freezing public and private Web sites for political revenge. Read Story | Discuss 3. FBI commends Vienna police officer for help in cyber crimes task force Officer Dustin Lingle of the Vienna Police Department was commended by the Springfield Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for contributions to the FBI Southern Illinois Cyber Crimes Task Force, according to an FBI press release. Read Story | Discuss 4. Cyber-squatting remains high on illegal list of activities People who trick users to visit their site using a similar or exact name of known branded site, known as cyber-squatters, are on the rise according to new research. Read Story | Discuss 5. UK Plc calls for national police e-crime force The UK's major industry and business groups have backed silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign, which is calling for the creation of a new national police e-crime unit to combat the growing threat of cyber crime. Read Story | Discuss 6. Teachers warn over cyber bullying Teachers are warning parents they need to be more aware about the potential misuse of the internet and mobile phones by their children. Read Story | Discuss Asia 1. Indonesian sentenced to 10 months for hacking A Lomita resident who admitted hacking into business kiosks at hotels and stealing credit card information that he used to obtain credit was sentenced this afternoon to 10 months in federal prison. Read Story | Discuss 2. Indonesia: House urges government to combat cyber crimes soon The House of Representatives (DPR) asked the government to begin fighting cyber crimes in the country following the passing into law of a Bill on Information and Electronic Transactions (ITE). Read Story | Discuss 3. Rescue 15 to establish cyber crime unit in Pakistan Rescue-15 will soon establish a cyber crime unit, a sniffing dogs centre, a counter for laboratory samples collection, a computer training centre and a library to maximise the safety of masses aimed at people's welfare, IGP Shahid Nadeem Baloch has said. He inaugurated the newly-constructed mosque at Rescue-15 centre last month. Read Story | Discuss 4. NEPAL Alert on Credit Card Gang Nepal police are hunting the remnants of a fake credit card syndicate prowling the capital as three Malaysians, who were arrested last December in connection with the crime, languish in a central Kathmandu jail. Read Story | Discuss 5. Pak: NBP admits gang withdrew Rs20m in Multan The National Bank of Pakistan on Saturday said that some people had fraudulently withdrawn Rs20 million from its automated-teller machines (ATMs) in Multan, while the Federal Investigation Agency believes that the bank’s online money providing system has been “hacked”. Read Story | Discuss 6. Dubai: Youth fined Dh10,000 and website blocked for illegal downloads A person has been fined Dh10,000 for illegally downloading and using programmes from Showtime, Art and Orbit on a website he launched in 2005. Dubai Court of Misdemeanour also shut down the website www.dvd4uae.com that the 23-year-old Emirati set up for a month. Read Story | Discuss Australia & Africa 1. Kenyan cyber-cafe owners threatened with prosecution Imposters have forced a number of cyber-cafes in Kenya to shut down due to fear of prosecution by software company Microsoft. Groups of unidentified people visited the operators and threatened them with closure unless they paid a $700 fee to stay in business. Read Story | Discuss 2. Nigeria: Global Network Begins Fight Against Cyber Crimes Global Network for Cyber Solution Limited, an anti-cyber crime campaign and cyber security solution organisation has unveiled its plan to confront the incessant cyber crimes and piracy in Africa, with Nigeria as primary focus. Read Story | Discuss 3. Microsoft arms Australian Federal Police with cyber weapons The Australian Federal Police (AFP) will receive a technology boost in the fight against child predators and paedophiles with the launch of an online tracking system, developed and donated by Microsoft. Read Story | Discuss 4. NSW police to search computer networks The New South Wales Cabinet has approved new powers for police designed to help them track terrorist threats, fraudsters and paedophiles through computer networks. The proposed laws would allow police to search computers networked to those listed on a search warrant. Read Story | Discuss 5. Wiki process used to overhaul police law attracts interest Hundreds of people clicked edit and told the police anonymously online how they should do their job. The use of Wikipedia-type software to "have a conversation with New Zealand" when law governing police was being overhauled went so well that New Zealand Police are passing on how they did it to foreign law makers. Read Story | Discuss 6. NZ key member of FBI cyber specialists New Zealand has been revealed as a member of a specialist American led anti cyber crime group. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in a statement today that the newly formed Strategic Alliance Cyber Crime Working Group was one of its most promising initiatives to fight cyber crime. Read Story | Discuss Intellectual Property Rights 1. WIPO kicks cybersquatters out NOBODY LIKES SQUATTERS, even in cyberspace, which is why WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization and branch of the UN, has ousted a record number of cybersquatters from Web sites with domain names nicked from trademarked companies. Read Story | Discuss 2. Korea's P2P pirate goes legal, targets Europe Legalising P2P is a sea change for the music business: instead of trying to end or control file-sharing, executives realise they merely have to make a profit from it to stave off oblivion. Now Korea's biggest P2P operation Soribada has gone legal, finally obtaining government approval for its Orgel file-sharing service. Orgel, described as "Korea's Napster", lets users share unlimited amounts of DRM-free music files with each other for a small subscription fee. Read Story | Discuss 3. MPAA copyright punch up knocks out TorrentSpy The operators of TorrentSpy, once the most popular BitTorrent tracker, have been forced to permanently shutter the site after losing a battle with rights holders. A Los Angeles court ruled in favour of the Motion Picture Ass. of America in December after TorrentSpy destroyed evidence, claiming it was protecting users' privacy. The judge said it had made a fair trial impossible and imposed a $30,000 fine. Read Story | Discuss 4. Geert Wilders faces legal threats over footage copyright Anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders, whose controversial film Fitna finally hit the web yesterday, has made himself even more unpopular - it appears he forgot to secure copyright on footage used in the movie. Read Story | Discuss 5. US students, alumni to get legal P2P US colleges and their alumni may be offered the right to P2P file-sharing under one of the most radical copyright reforms in a hundred years, The Register has learned. Read Story | Discuss Security & Privacy 1. Cyber-attack launched from 10,000 web pages A security firm has identified over 10,000 web pages rigged by cyber-criminals to hijack the PCs of unsuspecting surfers. The web pages have been modified to silently redirect visitors to sites laden with malware that attempt to break into the user's PC. Read Story | Discuss 2. Cyber mafia is lurking in your computer What's your value in the cyber mafia-run chor bazaar? $0.25 for your official name, $2 for cell number, $150 to $500 for credit card number and $50 to $400 for bank customer ID and PIN. You could be worth $1,000 on an average. When it comes to dealing in corporate information, your value could run into thousands of dollars. Read Story | Discuss 3. Cyber Crime Pays: Botnet Scams Are Exploding Two days after actor Heath Ledger died, e-mails began moving across the Internet purportedly carrying a link to a detailed police report divulging "the real reason" behind the actor's death. Ledger had been summarily drafted into the service of a botnet. Read Story | Discuss 4. Hoax email warns about 'nasty virus' Over the last few days an email, written in German, has been seen circulating warning users about a 'nasty virus' that is infecting millions of websites. The email indicates that making a simple change to the robots.txt file in the website's main directory will prevent the site from being infected, and provides instructions on how to do so. Read Story | Discuss 5. Man admits creating Web virus, spreading via copyright footage A 24-year-old man on trial in the Kyoto District Court charged with violating the Copyright Law admitted Tuesday he created a computer virus and used copyrighted animation footage to spread it on the Internet. Read Story | Discuss 6. Vietnam: Websites at risk of virus infection VietNamNet Bridge - Over 80 percent of websites in Viet Nam are vulnerable to attack by hackers and viruses, according to the Bach Khoa Internetwork Security Center of the Ha Noi University of Technology. This was announced at the Security World 2008 Conference held yesterday in Ha Noi with the theme, “Raising public awareness of internet security to improve its efficiency”. Read Story | Discuss

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