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India 1. Call Centre man held for hacking bank account A call centre employee, who had allegedly hacked into ICICI bank's website and illegally withdrawn Rs 1.30 lakh from the account of a Bangalore resident, has finally fallen into the police net. Read Story | Discuss 2. Architect arrested for e-mailing explicit pictures of girl A 30-year-old architect working in a telecom firm in Bangalore was arrested for allegedly sending to an air hostess, with whom he had an extra-marital affair, an e-mail containing explicit pictures of her. Read Story | Discuss 3. Phishers get smarter, keep ICICI clueless The game of cat and mouse continues. This is one more phishing attack against ICICI, but this time the phishers have got cleverer. They are now using the domain space of a complete stranger to carry out the attack, making the chance of tracing the perpetrator even less likely. Read Story | Discuss 4. Information dept’s website hacked The website of the directorate of information and publicity has been hacked into by unknown persons, who posted pictures of dead bodies and weapons on the website, police officials said. Read Story | Discuss 5. Cyber frauds widen net Next time your inbox shows a mail declaring that you have won two million dollars as prize money offered by an international lottery agency, don't just start counting the zeroes and thanking your stars. There are strong possibilities that you may lose a couple of grand before realising that you have been taken for a ride by a cyber fraud. Read Story | Discuss 6. Police turn to technology in hunt for bombers Police and intelligence services in both Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi are hoping that a careful forensic investigation of an e-mail sent to television stations could propel the probe into Friday’s terror bombings in Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad. Read Story | Discuss USA 1. Google cybersquatter demands a job A cybersquatter wanting a job with Google has been rather inventive. “Sebastian Klein, a network administrator, has registered at least eight Google-related internet domain names and, in a letter posted in 10 languages on each of the sites, he demands a job in exchange for handing over ownership of the names,” reports The Associated Press. Read Story | Discuss 2. Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2007 Introduced The Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2007 recently introduced with the purpose “to enable increased federal prosecution of identity theft crimes and to allow for restitution to victims of identity theft.” Read Story | Discuss 3. St. Louis Considering Internet Harassment Law The City of St. Louis is the latest community to consider making cyber harassment a crime. Read Story | Discuss 4. Asymmetric cyber threat: Cyber Terrorists One asymmetric threat to our military forces and the nation is "cyber terrorism." Our advanced technologically based military forces — dependent on our satellites, critical infrastructure computers, the Internet, secure software programming, computer-driven telecommunications, air traffic control centers and other sophisticated sensor systems — are tempting targets for cyber terrorism. Read Story | Discuss 5. Cyber Monday Shopping Traffic Breaks Records, Sites Judging from the early returns, this year's "Cyber Monday" looks to be another record-breaker. Internet content delivery player Akamai reported that peak traffic to U.S. retail sites during Cyber Monday -- the first Monday after Thanksgiving -- increased 30 percent from last year, reaching 4.6 million global visitors per minute. Read Story | Discuss 6. Death of girl, 13, linked to friend's cyber-bully parents A BIZARRE, cruel internet hoax that ended with the suicide of a girl, 13, has provoked a firestorm of controversy. Read Story | Discuss Europe 1. Lords offer new angle on e-crime A website for people to report cyber-crime is one idea being considered by a government committee set up to look at internet security. Read Story | Discuss 2. Data breaches misunderstood by gov't, say Lords The government has failed to understand the threat to the continued growth of the internet posed by cyber crime, according to the influential House of Lords Science and Technology Committee. Read Story | Discuss 3. New Group Joins Russians in Evil PDF Attack Spamming of the rigged files reached what researchers called "massive" proportions the weekend of Oct. 27 and 28. Another group has joined the Russians to modify PDFs and jack up spamming of the rigged files to a level that reached what researchers called "massive" proportions over the weekend. Read Story | Discuss 4. Woman charged with child pornography; first time ever in London For the first time in the city's history, a woman has been charged with several child-pornography related offenses. The 45-year-old London woman was arrested Wednesday (Nov. 28), following a search of an Old South residence by the London police Cyber Crime Unit. Read Story | Discuss 5. Russian Web Hosting Provider with Links to Cyber Crime Online security experts say that Russia-based Web hosting provider Russian Business Network has gone offline. Read Story | Discuss 6. Economic crime 'costs UK £40bn' UK businesses lost more than £40bn last year, about £100m a day, as a result of economic crime, a report has found. Read Story | Discuss Australia 1. Many websites may be outside the law THOUSANDS of Australian businesses are unwittingly breaking copyright laws via their websites, warns a Brisbane intellectual property law specialist. Read Story | Discuss 2. Cyber security upgrade for Parliament GUARDING political secrets from foreign government hackers is the motivation behind a move to step-up cyber protection at Canberra's parliament house. Read Story | Discuss 3. Hamilton teen accused of being brains behind cyber crime ring A Hamilton teenager is accused of being the brains behind an international ring of cyber criminals and an Internet scam that has cost nearly $26 million. Read Story | Discuss 4. NZer appointed 'Chairman of cyberspace' Wellington-based internet law expert Peter Dengate Thrush has been appointed chairman of the board of Icann, the US-based organisation that globally co-ordinates internet address identifiers. He replaces Vint Cerf, as "chairman of cyberspace". Read Story | Discuss 5. Teenagers lost to cyber space TEENAGE boys hooked on cyber games are among the thousands of idle young people not working or studying. Monash University research showed more than 17,000 Victorians aged 18-20 are part of a lost generation of young Australians on the dole or not looking for work. Read Story | Discuss 6. Cyber sex education needed WHILE the Federal Government is spending more than $100 million on efforts to protect Australian families from internet porn, associated problems are popping up like spot fires in a hot wind. Read Story | Discuss Asia & Africa 1. Sharjah Official calls for stricter penalties on cyber crime Stricter penalties should be enforced against cyber terrorists to deter cyber crime in the country, said a senior official of Sharjah Police Wednesday. Read Story | Discuss 2. Sharjah to establish cyber-crime unit A top police official in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, announced plans to establish a new unit to combat cyber crime in cooperation with the UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority. Read Story | Discuss 3. China, Russia at forefront of cyberwarfare Cyberwarfare - long rumored - became a reality in 2007, as Russia (it is generally agreed) let loose prolonged cyber attacks on little Estonia, China attacked military and government computers in the US, India and Germany, and, in all, 120 countries are using the net for espionage. Read Story | Discuss 4. China Disputes Cyber Crime Report The Chinese government on Thursday disputed a report labeling it the world's most aggressive offender in probing for holes in other nations' Internet security and encouraging a looming global cyber showdown. Read Story | Discuss 5. SA tackles cyber crime The first steering committee for a public South African Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) will meet on November 27 to plan the way forward for the establishment of a private sector CSIRT to be established locally. Read Story | Discuss 6. Cyber crime increasing worldwide Experts say computer related crime is one of the fastest growing forms of crime worldwide. It is belived that cyber-crime has become a R703 billion rand business that has now surpassed the value of the international illegal drug trade. Read Story | Discuss Security 1. Symantec's Top 10 Internet Security Trends of 2007 Security breaches, unknown security risks posed by Vista, spam and organized cyber crime are some of the Symantec's Top 10 Internet Security Trends of 2007. Read Story | Discuss 2. Social networking - a security time bomb? Social networking Web sites - such as Myspace, Facebook and LinkedIn - are more popular than ever. But are we being so liberal with our personal information that we're making ourselves easy targets for hacking and identity theft? Read Story | Discuss 3. Hackers on prowl: Biggest digital threats in 2008 Innovative software, Web sites, and devices attract attention because they make communicating easier, accomplishing tasks faster, or being online more entertaining. But hackers generally follow to exploit the latest mass market. Read Story | Discuss 4. Internet Outages Could Occur By 2010 As Capacity Stalls Booming demand for Internet services combined with insufficient infrastructure investment could leave the Web vulnerable to brown outs within three years, a study released Tuesday predicted. Read Story | Discuss 5. Global hackers threaten net security in cyber warfare aimed at top targets A "cyber cold war" is developing as international web espionage and cyber-attacks become the biggest threats to internet security, according to a report. The computer security firm McAfee said governments and government-allied groups were engaging in increasingly sophisticated cyber spying, with many attacks originating from China. Read Story | Discuss 6. Botnets – The Silent Threat on the Internet ENISA is launching its latest Position Paper: on 'botnets', i.e. silent, 'hijacked' computers. The paper identifies roles and structures of criminal organizations for creating and controlling botnets, and trends in this type of cyber crime. In particular, it is often overlooked that browser exploits account already for more than 60% of all infections. Read Story | Discuss