Conference on International Police Cooperation against Cyber Crime
Cyber Space is one of the technological and legal frontiers of our time. Internet has revolutionized almost every aspect of human life. From the very small and innocuous things like sending or receiving emails to social networking to billion of dollars worth of e-commerce to cyber crime and to cyber terrorism, it has touched every sphere of human endeavor.
However, with this exponential growth in technology and services, bad actors are exploiting weaknesses in this system for their own selfish interests. They are using it as a tool for committing traditional crime of fraud, forgery, manipulation of data, copyright infringement, dissemination of pornography, child pornography and new generation crimes as hacking, distribution of viruses, Denial of Service Attacks using Botnets and attacking critical infrastructure of nations etc. Internet offers individuals and criminal networks unparalleled opportunity of anonymity, geographical reach and mobility.
Recent terrorist attacks at Mumbai in November 2008 and previous such instances are proof as to how technology has been misused by the terrorists to commit crime and attack the sovereignty of the nation. VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) which was till now used free communication by people has been used by terrorists to bypass governmental regulatory controls.
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1. Symantec Says Credit Card Data May have Leaked From India
Symantec says that credit card information relating to three of its customers may have been leaked from its call center contractor in India.
2. India asked to join convention on cybercrime
A top official of the Council of Europe has asked India to be a part of its Convention on Cybercrime, a step, which he said, will lead to efficient cooperation with other 47-member countries, whenever such crimes are committed here.
3. Estranged couples engage in ugly cyber war
When Shilpa Patel, a corporate executive, started getting calls from across the globe with unknown men making lewd suggestions, she suspected her estranged NRI husband to be behind it. She soon found out he had changed her profile on a social networking site, giving her mobile number and listing out all the "services" she could offer.
4. CBI organized conference on cyber crime
The cyber-space has emerged as the popular market place for information sharing and exchange of ideas. We now have the software, computer and Internet - all designed to promote efficient services, higher productivity and greater convenience, reducing the gap in both space and time to bring the world closer. Unfortunately, the information and communication technologies are also being misused by anti-social elements in aid and furtherance of their nefarious activities.
5. Economic downturn may increase crimes
Even as the economic recession throws the lives of millions of workers off track, sociologists predict that it is likely to create an upward pressure on crime levels - like cyber crime, burglary and drug trafficking - in the state. According to sociologists, people will be under tremendous stress to cope with the changing economic scenario.
1. Information Security Consultant Sentenced To 4 Years
Concluding the first prosecution of its kind in the nation, a man associated with the “botnet underground” was sentenced late today to 48 months in federal prison for using his “botnets” – armies of compromised computers – to steal the identities of victims throughout the country by extracting information from their personal computers and wiretapping their communications.
2. Cybersquatting Cases Hit Record in 2008
Companies and celebrities ranging from Arsenal football club to actress Scarlett Johansson filed a record number of "cybersquatting" cases in 2008 to stop others from profiting from their famous names, brands and events, a United Nations agency said on Sunday.
3. US Senators fed up with being hacked
Three US Senators have had a gutful of being hacked have penned a law designed to expand the cybersecurity workforce and bolster collaboration between the public and private sectors.
4. Mississippi Toughens Piracy Law
A bill signed into law this week by the governor increases the penalties in Mississippi for piracy and bootlegging. It applies to not just those making the illegal items, but also those who possess them.
5. Oklahoma consent law snarls lured girl case
With thousands of sexual predators prowling the Internet, parents of teenagers are taught to fear unspeakable dangers lurking in the cyber-shadows of chat rooms and on networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook.
1. Ukrainian cybercriminals raked in $10K/day, Finjan reports
Ten thousand eight hundred dollars per day for cybercrime jockeys? That's what security vendor Finjan says it witnessed during its 16-day infiltration of a cybercrime operation, based in the Ukraine, that involved selling bogus anti-virus software.
2. FBI web unit nets child porn man
A 37-year-old man from Glasgow has admitted possessing more than 69,000 indecent photographs of children. Andrew West, from Royston, was caught with the images after he was identified by the FBI's cyber crime squad.
3. Scottish Parliament pr0n law faces angry opposition
Last week, the long-awaited Scottish extreme porn bill (pdf) was published — s34 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill — and it hasn’t gone down well at all.
4. EU Police To Receive Corporate Hacker Training
Cyber criminals beware! European police officers will soon receive corporate-sponsored university training in order to help fight cyber crime more effectively. Support for the new project will be provided by several leading IT companies.
5. Germany says cyber crime is rampant
Reports and research from Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) have found that internet security levels are so poor that cyber crime and sabotage are rampaging upwards at an escalating rate. This has prompted leading internet security firm, Finjan, to upgrade its Secure Web Gateway program to Web 2.0 standards.
1. Cyber crime cost US$1.76b in 2008 in Vietnam
Computer crime cost Vietnam US$1.76 billion last year while many businesses do not even have security systems, state media reported.
2. Taiwan says it will discuss cybercrime with China, AS
An official says Taiwan will discuss with China the issue of cyberspying during an upcoming meeting on combating crime. Liu Te-shun of Taiwan's Cabinet-level Mainland Affairs Council said Monday that computer hacking will be on the agenda when the two sides meet in Beijing, likely in May or June, but refused to elaborate.
3. China blocks YouTube after Tibet complaints
China blocks YouTube after Tibet complaintsAttack on video showing security forces beating Tibetans. China has blocked the video-sharing network YouTube after Beijing denounced footage appearing to show security forces beating Tibetans in Lhasa last year as ‘a lie’.
4. Chinese Cyber spies hack into government embassies globally
A cyber spy network based mainly in China hacked into classified documents from government and private organisations in 103 countries, including the computers of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan exiles, Canadian researchers said.
5. Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft urged not to censor search
Rights groups called on Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft on Friday not to censor their Web search engines one day next week to help protest cyber censorship.
1. New Zealand withdraws internet anti-piracy law
A controversial law that could have forced firms to disconnect internet users accused of illegally downloading music or films has been withdrawn by the New Zealand government.
2. Secret Aussie blacklist leaked
The inevitable has happened - the secret Australian blacklist of banned websites has been published on the internet. The list contains some 2,395 sites about half of which do not contain child sexual abuse images. It includes online poker sites, fetish, satanic and Christian sites, Wikipedia pages, gay and straight pornography, a travel operator and even the website for a Queensland dentist.
3. Australian government to 'block' gay websites
A blacklist of banned websites drawn up by the Australian government includes gay sites. The government is proposing a law that requires internet service providers to filter and block inappropriate content, such as that related to terrorism and abusive images of children. It has drawn up a list of sites to be blacklisted.
4. German Embassy worried about cyber fraud involving Ghana, others
The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ghana has expressed concern about the recent number of cyber fraud and business scams originating from West African countries.
5. Ministry to tackle cyber crime in Ghana
Mr. Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Communications, on Thursday said the issue of cyber crime and internet fraud, popularly known as “sakawa” would be given serious attention.
1. NZ Teen hacker turns corporate cyber-crime consultant
A teenage hacker from New Zealand who helped a criminal network to infiltrate more than 1 million computers worldwide and skim millions of dollars from bank accounts has been hired as a cyber-security consultant by the country's second-largest telecommunications company.
2. BBC’s botnet practices treated as digital security threat and law violation
The buzz around the BBC Click’s investigation is still going on, reports the Register. The broadcast company claims that “public interest” justified its purchase and use of a botnet of 22,000 compromised machines. But a number of the top digital security experts as well as lawyers, journalists and the community itself dispute this view calling the actions of BBC as unethical and potentially dangerous.
3. Cybercrime server exposed through Google cache
A reported 22,000 card records have been exposed through cached copies of data stored on a defunct cybercrime server. iTnews in Australia reports that 19,000 of the 22,000 exposed details referred to US and UK cards and that data came from Google cache records of a disused internet payment gateway, a line picked up by Slashdot.
4. Malware Threat Growing From Unemployed Ranks
Looking at the statistics, February was a positively brutal month for workers being idled. Last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the ugly numbers. There were 2,769 mass layoff actions putting 295,477 out of work. That's 542 mass layoff actions more than January and 57,575 laid off.
5. Forensic tool moves to Linux
Linux'ers who thought they had erased all traces of their latest Ponzi scheme, beware: MacForensicsLab's desktop forensic tool has moved to Linux. Designed to help law enforcement, E-Discovery, and IT professionals quickly extract suspect information, version 2.1 of MacLockPick now runs on Linux, says the company.
