To subscribe to the newsletter, please leave a message here with the word "Subscribe" in message body! Pakistan's cyber law is authoritarian: GulfNews.com The Pakistan government has announced the implementation of a new law that would imprison those who circulate indecent, provocative and 'ill-motivated' SMS and emails. Under the Cyber Crimes Act, sending an SMS message or email containing defamation of the country´s civilian leadership or of the security forces is punishable with 14 years in jail, according to a statement by the Interior Ministry, which did not specifically define the crime. In addition to jail time, offenders could have their property confiscated, and any Pakistani national living abroad and violating provisions of the act may be charged and liable for extradition to Pakistan. First Victim of Cyber Crime Act, a Highly Influential Leader of a Student Political Organization, was picked up by plainclothes policemen from a Cyber Cafe in Okara for having sent text messages (SMS) to Rehman Malik slandering him and the government for Cyber Crime Law against MMS, Emails, etc. There are youth in the university campuses that are educated and politically aware. Sometimes they criticize the government´s policies by sending SMS messages between each other. There are also groups outside Pakistan who are critical of the government. The enforcement of the new directive will be handled by the Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency, the equivalent of the FBI in the United States. The agency will have the authority to access all the country´s internet service providers and block or trace all suspicious messages. Read Article

India 1. Wronged, Bangalore techie gets justice 2 yrs after being jailed Lakshmana Kailash K was jailed after ISP wrongly gave his name to cops looking for man who put up defamatory articles of a historical figure on a social networking site; police detained him for 50 days despite realising mistake. Read Story | Discuss 2. Kolkatta Man held for defaming woman on Orkut One person was arrested by the Kolkata Police’s Detective Department for creating a woman’s profile with obscene photographs and putting up her mobile number on social networking site Orkut. Police said Sourav Hazra (25) was arrested last month following a complaint lodged by the woman’s husband. Read Story | Discuss 3. RBI tightens online card use The additional step is the result of a Reserve Bank of India's guideline issued this February that mandates additional authentications/verifications based on information about the card-holder that is not contained on the card. This measure is expected to contain online card fraud. Read Story | Discuss 4. Dell India gets notice for over-pricing products Computer major Dell India has been issued notice by a district consumer court here for allegedly over-pricing products and supplying a faulty laptop to a customer. Read Story | Discuss 5. Kerala to Prepare New Law to Tackle Cyber-crime Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Monday told the state assembly that a comprehensive law is being prepared to tackle the increasing number of cyber crimes being reported in the state. Read Story | Discuss USA 1. Conviction overturned in MySpace suicide case US District Judge George Wu tentatively acquitted Lori Drew, 50, of three misdemeanor counts of accessing computers without authorization. To the dismay of many, she was originally charged with four felony counts stemming from her role in creating a fake MySpace profile, which is a violation of the site's terms of service. Prosecutors argued her skirting of the rules amounted violations of the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Read Story | Discuss 2. FBI lab to open in O.C. to nab cyber criminals Orange County law-enforcement agencies will deploy a new, $5 million FBI digital forensics lab in the central part of the county when it opens in February. It will be the 16th such lab in the country. Its location has not been unveiled. Read Story | Discuss 3. Sheriff chaplain accused in FBI kid-porn probe An FBI Cyber Crime Task Force investigation led to the arrest of two area men accused of distributing child pornography, one of them a Whitley County Sheriff’s Department chaplain. Read Story | Discuss 4. President Lula and the Brazilian Cybercrime Bill Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Da Silva, popularly known as Lula, announced during the recent Fórum Internacional de Software Livre (FISL) that "No one is more creative than we are. What we need is an opportunity. This law here... it doesn't aim to fix the abuse of the Internet. Read Story | Discuss 5. Dell Releases Package To Help Fight Cyber Crime Dell Inc released a special set of hardware, software and services on Tuesday created to help police capture more criminals as digital crime multiplies. Read Story | Discuss Europe 1. Landmark ruling means it's time to review your website disclaimers. In the first case of its kind, the Court of Appeal has endorsed website disclaimers. Mistakes can be excused by warning notices, it ruled. However, the judges based their decision, at least in part, on a misunderstanding of how people use websites. Contact Us for Disclaimer for your website Read Story | Discuss 2. Facebook: A new battleground for cyber-crime Social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace will soon become the most insidious places on the Internet, where users are most likely to face cyber attacks and digital annoyances, according to Web security firm Sophos. Read Story | Discuss 3. Average UK broadband just over half advertised speed The average downstream speed received by UK households is just 57 per cent of the average advertised rate, according to Ofcom research. Data from the regulator's hardware-based performance monitoring network shows that while the average broadband package is sold as "up to" 7.1Mbit/s, it actually delivers 4.1Mbit/s. Read Story | Discuss 4. Four million British identities are up for sale on the internet The identities of more than four million Britons are being offered for sale on the internet, The Times has learnt. Read Story | Discuss 5. US and Europe joining to fight cyber crime The U.S. Secret Service plans to unveil Tuesday plans for a pan-European task force charged with preventing identity theft, computer hacking and other computer-based crime. Read Story | Discuss Asia 1. PAK: First Victim of Cyber Crime Act One of our team members based in Pakistan reported today that a Highly Influential Leader of a Student Political Organization, was picked up by plainclothes policemen from a Cyber Cafe in Okara for having sent text messages (SMS) to Rehman Malik slandering him and the government for Cyber Crime Law against MMS, Emails, etc. Read Story | Discuss 2. Pakistan's cyber law is authoritarian Pakistan has issued a new cyber-crime law which lists sending indecent, provocative or ill-motivated messages on a cell phone as an offence. Under the Cyber Crimes Act, sending an SMS message or email containing defamation of the country´s civilian leadership or of the security forces is punishable with 14 years in jail, according to a statement by the Interior Ministry, which did not specifically define the crime. Read Story | Discuss 3. Decree on cyber crime violation of basic rights: SAMC The South Asia Media Commission (SAMC) on Wednesday criticised the enforcement of a presidential decree on cyber crime, which it said would violate the fundamental rights of the people and hamper citizen journalism. Read Story | Discuss 4. China bans online games which glamorize gangs China has banned websites featuring or publicizing online games which glamorize mafia gangs, saying violators will be "severely punished," state media reported on Tuesday. The Culture Ministry said such games "advocate obscenity, gambling, or violence," and "undermine morality and Chinese traditional culture," the official Xinhua news agency said. Read Story | Discuss 5. FIA clampdown on software piracy, porn on cards Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is set to crack down on the sale of pirated software and porno CDs in the capital and adjoining garrison city, it’s learnt. Read Story | Discuss Australia 1. Oz Firewall still standing after inconclusive filter trial Inconclusive news from the internet filtering trials might turn out to be bad news for the anti-censorship lobby in Australia. The Australian Government’s refusal to explain what exactly would count as a bad result for internet filtering adds to the sense that it will be ploughing on with this regardless. Read Story | Discuss 2. Crackdown urged on cyber crime THE Federal Government should to do more to combat the growing problems of cyber crime and online security, the Australian Computer Society says. Read Story | Discuss 3. Cyber crime link to social networking CYBER crime is exploding across Queensland because of the global economic crisis and social networking sites have become a crook's best friend. Read Story | Discuss 4. Internet crime on the rise, crime symposium hears EXPERTS warn cyber crime is getting worse with victims losing homes and savings as scams become more sophisticated. About 100 experts from around the world are gathering in Brisbane on Tuesday for a high-tech crime symposium dubbed Cybercrime and Trustworthy Computing. Read Story | Discuss 5. Police take online fraud fight to Nigeria An initiative to combat online scams is being trialled by the Queensland Police Service via its website. The portal will give fraud and scam victims the chance to report their case to Ghana police or the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Read Story | Discuss Security & Privacy 1. Hacktivists' break into Pak sites on blast anniversary The head of the website reads Mission 26th and its content shows a message from a cyber group that claims the responsibility of the act where homepage of 26 prominent Pakistan-based websites were hacked by city-based hackers on the first anniversary of Ahmedabad serial blasts on Sunday. Read Story | Discuss 2. Microsoft Office being exploited to perform cybercrime So, what are these hackers doing to MS Office? They are loading up web sites with malicious code that load onto Office user's computers. Once infected the user's machine becomes part of a botnet (network of infected computers), then used for spamming, identity theft and other cybercrime. Read Story | Discuss 3. Twitter's underwear exposed after Google Apps hack An unidentified hacker has exposed confidential corporate and personal information belonging to microblogging site Twitter and its employees after breaching electronic accounts belonging to several people close to the company. Read Story | Discuss 4. Associated Press to protect news with Digital Rights Management News agency Associated Press (AP) will envelope its articles, photographs and videos in a 'protective wrapper' and track the use of its information through a news database in a bid to prevent its unauthorised use, it said. Read Story | Discuss 5. Google is not liable for defamatory snippets in search results, rules High Court Google is not the publisher of defamatory words that appear in its search results, the High Court ruled yesterday. Even when Google had been told that its results contained libellous words, it was not liable as a publisher, said Mr Justice Eady. Read Story | Discuss

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