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Terrorism & Technology
No doubt advancement in technology is making things easier for everyone and Terrorists are catching up too. From the use of satellite phones for communication, GPS for navigation to the use of Proxy Servers for sending emails, Terrorists know it all !
The email claiming responsibility for the recent terror attacks at Mumbai has been traced to Russia, which indicates more to the use of a Proxy server located in Russia rather than case of Forged IP. As Russia remains on the top of the list, from where cyber criminal activities are being orginated these days, which include hacking, spamming, phishing, etc.
Further, Terrorists preferred Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) phone service over the conventional system of making a call, which made it difficult for the security agencies in India to track the whereabouts and identities of the Terorrists during the attacks.
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India
1. Hackers deface CID website
Hackers cocked a snook at police fighting cyber crime by defacing the CID website, www.cidap.gov.in, in the wee hours of Tuesday.
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2. Bangalore police arrest man for hacking bank account
It just took four days for 30-year-old Bhavin Parikh to siphon off Rs 3.94 lakh from a Bangalore-based ABN-Amro bank account to his ICICI bank account in Vadodara.
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3. U.P. Police crack cyber crime case
The Aligarh police has recently exposed a conspiracy to dent the goodwill
of a company dealing with a host of foreign clients by posting derogatory
and demeaning video clips on the company's Youtube website.
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4. PIL against India's pics on Google Earth
A PIL filed in the Bombay High Court has taken exception to easy access to satellite images of the vital installations in the country through Google Earth.
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5. Credit Card Fraud Discovered and Arrest made
A young software engineer in the city of Chennai received the shock of her life when she received a bill for Rs 1 lakh for purchases made with a credit card - that she never held.
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6. To curb cyber crimes, software to be certified, asserts ICERT Director
To curb the growing menace of cyber crimes in the country, Union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology will set up the first ever Indian accreditation facility for software in Kolkata.
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USA
1. Judge mulls dismissal of blogging defamation case
The judge in a defamation case involving a Cape Cod Today blogger plans to rule on whether to dismiss the case or allow it to go forward.
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2. Craigslist agrees to crack down on erotic ads
Craigslist, the popular Internet classifieds listing service has agreed to crack down on advertisements posted by prostitutes in a pact struck with 40 U.S. states. The listings site has been under pressure to screen out cyber advertisements that offer sexual services.
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3. Notorious registrar gets deactivation notice for president's sin
EstDomains, a domain name registrar with a reputation for catering to cyber criminals, suffered another blow after the organization that oversees the net's address system said it would revoke the company's right to sell domain names because of a recent fraud conviction in Estonia of its president.
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4. Debate looms for web sales tax
A sales tax on Internet sales may be coming sooner than you think. With record state budget deficits, a new Congress looking for ways to find money in the economic downturn and greater e-commerce, the idea is likely to emerge in 2009, according to Forbes.com
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5. Why an $873-million court ruling won’t stop spam
A Montreal spammer has been ordered to pay an astronomical settlement fee to Facebook for illegally obtaining user login data and sending out millions of spam messages. But with little chance to collect, industry observers doubt the ruling with deter future cyber crime activities.
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6. Cyber Crime is on the rise, Social Networkers are to be blamed
A report on businessweek.com says that according to the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center, fraudsters are increasingly turning to Web pages including social networks.
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Europe
1. Woman found guilty in 'cyber-bully' case
A housewife who posed as a teenage boy to send hostile emails to a neighbour's daughter was found guilty in November of several minor charges related to the "cyber-bullying" that prompted the girl's suicide.
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2. Man caught viewing child porn in cyber cafe has sentence adjourned
A POLISH man who was caught looking at child pornography in an internet cafe, leading to the discovery of more than 1,000 images in his home, has had his sentence adjourned for six months to allow further interaction with the Probation Services.
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3. Londoner faces child-porn charges
A 25-year-old London man faces criminal charges after being arrested during a child-porn investigation.
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4. Virgin Atlantic sacks 13 over Facebook comments
Virgin Atlantic has dismissed 13 staff because of comments they made on social networking site Facebook. The staff, all cabin crew, broke the company's policies, the airline said.
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5. Europe adopts new cyber crime agenda
EU vice president calls for co-operation and information exchange between member states. The European Union has adopted the European Commission's strategy on cyber crime, and called for better co-operation between businesses and the police.
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6. Bulgaria Shuts down Torrent Site
Cyber Crimes Unit acts on evidence collected by the Bulgarian Association of Music Producers. Authorities in Bulgaria have taken down Torrentvalley.com, an apparently major BitTorrent tracker site located in that country.
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Asia
1. Turkish creationist threatens to sue website for an article
Adnan Oktar, the name behind the closing of many internet sites in Turkey, threatens bianet: ‘There is an insulting article, take it off the internet or we will have you banned like Richard Dawkin’s site.’ There is no insult, so we are not taking it off!
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2. Indonesia: Leave your ID at internet cafes
Internet cafes in Jakarta are requested to record their customers' IDs in a guest book to prevent cyber crime, which is on the increase in the city, a police officer said at a cyber crime seminar.
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3. THAILAND: Tougher law plan slammed
Critics have blasted a Democrat proposal to amend criminal, criminal procedural and anti-cyber crime laws to bring in harsher penalties and wider coverage for lese majeste offences.
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4. Access to Blogger.com banned in Turkey
As of today access to the popular blogging website Blogger.com has been blocked in Turkey with a blocking order of the Diyarbakir First Criminal Court of Peace (dated 20.10.2008 and order no. 2008/2761).
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5. Pak sets death for 'cyber-terrorism'
The Prevention of Electronic Crimes law will be applicable to anyone who commits a crime detrimental to national security through the use of a computer or any other electronic device, the government said in the ordinance.
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6. Malaysia: Commercial crime losses hit RM500mil
LOSSES resulting from commercial crimes have doubled to RM500mil in the first eight months of the year compared with same period in 2006, reported Sinar Harian.
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Africa
1. Hi-tech fraud syndicate busted
A hi-tech Internet crime syndicate responsible for the theft of hundreds of millions of rands - from government departments, parastatals and financial institutions to computer spy programmes - has been bust.
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2. Nigeria: Senate Considers Bill against Cyber Crime
The Senate yesterday referred a Bill for an Act to outlaw perpetration of financial crimes through such electronic devices as mobile phones, internet and the Automatic Teller Machines (ATM) to its Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters.
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3. Kenya wants tough stance on cyber crime
THE High Level Segment Information Technology Summit entered its second day today with Kenya’s Information and Communications Minister Samuel Poghisio calling for tougher action against cyber crime.
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4. SA commits to up cyber security
Deputy communications minister Roy Padayachie has emphasised SA's commitment to ensuring it increases cyber security through the use of legal, procedural, technical measures, and by capacity-building and mobilising society.
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5. South Africa: Financial crisis triggers cyber-crime surge
Panda Security has issued a security alert that reveals a direct correlation between the recent stock market volatility and the growth of new threats. According to the global IT security vendor, the two are tied together much more closely than previously thought and as the recent stock market instability has accelerated, so has the volume of targeted cyber attacks and their relative impact on the economy over the last month and a half.
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6. Lack of cyber policy worries Nigeria
NIGERIA’S telecommunication and banking sectors are concerned about the lack of control in information technology, which if introduced, could minimise the incidences of cyber crime.
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Security & Privacy
1. Spain: Teenage hackers causing chaos
Way back in May, a ring of prolific hackers were arrested in Spain, but why this story hit the national, and international headlines, was because some of those caught were teenagers.
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2. European Commission consults on network and information security
The European Commission has launched a consultation on how it can strengthen the European Union's response to computer attacks. The Commission is canvassing views ahead of a debate early next year about an EU-wide co-ordination of computer security
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3. Cyber-Attacks Reported At White House, Campaigns
Computer systems at the White House, the Obama campaign and the McCain campaign have all been attacked recently by foreign hackers, authorities say.
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4. Facebook Moves to Cope With Koobface Virus
Facebook's 120 million users are being targeted by a virus dubbed "Koobface" that uses the social network's messaging system to infect PCs, then tries to gather sensitive information such as credit card numbers. It is the latest attack by hackers increasingly looking to prey on users of social networking sites.
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5. Nigerian hacks into NASA website
Authorities of the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) in the United States of America are battling to unravel the mystery behind the unauthorised access to the agency’s highly impervious and secured site by a Nigerian internet hacker based in Oshodi, a Lagos suburb.
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6. Authorities should do more to curb spam e-mail
If your e-mail box has been blessedly uncluttered by ads for body enhancement products or counterfeit pharmaceuticals over the last few days, he’s the one to thank.
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