ASSOCHAM: Do Not Enact IT Bill 2008. The Information Technology Bill 2008 in Parliament got passed with unprecedented hurry, without any discussion in both the Houses, as a result the Bill does not ensure confidential information and data of corporates and their adequate protection. The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India has cautioned the government not to legislate Information Technology Amendment Bill 2008 in its existing form, as it would make India’s future Cyber Laws crime friendly and fails to provide IT Security to corporates including their data protection. Further, following grounds have been made out in the Press Release by ASSOCHAM: IT act requires corporates to maintain "reasonable security practices, and procedures" as to sensitive personal data or information, but does not define the phrase "reasonable security practices, and procedures" ; Bill nowhere deals with the entire issue pertaining to Spam, in a comprehensive manner ; IT Bill 2008 do not address jurisdictional issues ; It lessens the quantum of punishment accorded to them under the existing law; Legislation which actually paves the way for cyber criminals to wipe out the electronic trails and electronic evidence by granting them bail as a matter of right. Press Release by ASOCHAM

India 1. Copyright Law Amendments to target Software Piracy The government plans to introduce a legislation empowering software makers in their fight against the sale of unauthorised copies of their products, as it looks to crack down on rampant piracy in the country where nearly three-fourths of the software used is pirated. Read Story | Discuss 2. Maharashtra to have sub-committees on cyber crime, disaster mgmt Maharashtra has formed various committees after the Mumbai terror attacks, which include the ones for cyber crime and idsastermanagement. Read Story | Discuss 3. Mumbai Police To Enforce Unsecured Wi-Fi Connections In an initiative taken by the Mumbai police, in the backdrop of terror mails sent before blasts and terror attacks, policemen will be sent to various locations in the city in search of unsecured Wi-Fi connections. Read Story | Discuss 4. Email Account Hacked, relatives asked for money by hacker Bandra-based businessman Al-Naseer Zakaria approached the Mumbai police's cyber crime cell after an email from his account asked acquaintances for a `soft loan' of 1,800 pounds (Rs 1.27 lakh) because he was supposedly stranded abroad. Read Story | Discuss 5. Now, state DFS can access damaged SIM cards A gangster senses that the police are behind him and he could be caught any time. To save his established network of goons and even high-profile people, he extracts the Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) of his mobile phone and chews it off. The police misses the crucial links in the case due to lack of information about the operation of the gang. Read Story | Discuss USA 1. High court decides not to revive child online protection law The government lost its final attempt last month to revive a federal law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet. Read Story | Discuss 2. FBI calls for global cooperation on cyber crime The FBI has called for greater international co-ordination in anti-hacking laws at the first International Conference on Cyber Security. It aimed to bring together commercial companies, law enforcement agencies and private individuals with an interest in curbing online crime. Read Story | Discuss 3. Illinois man sentenced to 14 years in prison for child pornography A Petersburg man who worked at the Illinois Emergency Management Agency was sentenced for possessing and distributing child pornography using a work computer. This sentence resulted from an investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Read Story | Discuss 4. FBI's 'human firewall' warns of computer crimes Massapequa native Shawn Henry is the head of investigating computer crimes for the FBI, and after he was introduced with that informal title, he talked of the breadth of the computer-crime problem facing the country and the world at a conference in New York of many of the world's computer experts. Read Story | Discuss 5. President Obama's cybersecurity plan released To protect the USA's information networks, President Obama plans to appoint a 'cyber adviser', initiate new research and development and increase collaboration with the private sector. Read Story | Discuss Europe 1. UK Police Can Now Hack Your PC, Without A Court Order Believe it or not police in the UK will now be allowed to hack into personal computers and rifle through personal information. A police constable must currently get a court order to ok the use of hacking on a case-by-case basis, to be able to hack into computers of those suspected of cyber crime and paedophilia. The new rules get rid of the need for a court order... Read Story | Discuss 2. Hacking Godfather 'Maksik' Sentenced to 30 Years by Turkish Court A Ukrainian cybercrime lord linked to nearly every major breach of U.S. retail networks in the past four years was sentenced this week to 30 years in prison by a Turkish court. His sentence was on unrelated charges of hacking banks in that country, according to reports. Read Story | Discuss 3. Sweden Considers Police Action Against File-Sharers Swedish file-sharers have previously been protected from police action, since any offenses they commit do not generally carry a prison sentence. Now, the government is considering new legislation which will give the police powers to go after regular file-sharers, even if their actions were previously only punishable by a fine. Read Story | Discuss 4. EU privacy watchdog laments weakened privacy proposals The European Union's Council of Ministers has weakened proposals to overhaul EU privacy laws and left people with fewer protections for their personal information, the privacy watchdog for EU institutions has warned. Read Story | Discuss 5. New UK Email Law will easily be bypassed by IM & Web 2.0 Real-time communications and Web 2.0 security firm, FaceTime Communications says that UK government plans to force all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to keep information about every e-mail sent or received in the country for a year will have little effect on crime, because most criminals already use other modern forms of electronic communication such as instant messaging. Read Story | Discuss Asia 1. Malaysia mulls ‘cyber court’ for Internet crimes Malaysia is considering establishing a “cyber court” to deal with the increasing number of crimes related to the Internet and blogging, a report said. Communications Minister Shaziman Abu Mansor said more than 30 Internet-linked cases had been submitted to the country’s attorney general in the past three years. Read Story | Discuss 2. South Korea's "prophet of doom" indicted South Korean prosecutors indicted a blogger on Thursday who had warned of financial doom for the country with critics saying he was targeted because his gloomy forecasts upset the government battling an economic downturn. Read Story | Discuss 3. Thailand Blocks 2300 Web Sites It Says Insult King Bhumibol Thailand has blocked 2,300 Web sites it says insult King Bhumibol Adulyadej and is establishing a “war room” for future crackdowns, actions critics say threaten free speech. Read Story | Discuss 4. Pakistan: More websites blocked at government's behest Reporters Without Borders condemns the directive issued by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to Internet Service Providers instructing them to block access to six web pages on the grounds that they are "harmful for the integrity of the country." The PTA is responsible for regulating the Internet. Read Story | Discuss 5. China moves to wipe out cyber porn STATE agencies have launched a nationwide crackdown targeting major Websites for allegedly spreading pornography and other vulgar content. A report on the official news Website www.china.com.cn said repeated violators and those that had a "malign influence" might be exposed, punished or shut down. Read Story | Discuss Security & Privacy 1. Russian Hackers Wreak Havoc in the West Hackers in Russia and China are mainly behind these attacks, considering that their level of computer knowledge is highly developed. Young students from Moscow's technical universities are approached by hackers, and join crime groups. They stand to gain between 5,000 and 7,000 dollars per month, as opposed to the average Russian’s salary of $640. Read Story | Discuss 2. Spammers Are Gaming Google's Adwords The next time you run a search on Google, pay attention to which results you click on from the paid results area. Security experts say spammers are gaming Google's Adwords program again in order to get malicious sites placed at the top of paid search results. Read Story | Discuss 3. Cyber Thieves Hit Payment Processor Heartland For the second time in a month, a payment processor has reported being hit by data thieves. This time, the victim is Heartland Payment Systems, one of the five largest payment processors in the United States. Heartland (NYSE: HYP) has not disclosed how many people were affected by the security breach, which it said may have begun in 2008 and was only uncovered last week. Read Story | Discuss 4. Best Practices for Protecting against Viruses, Spyware, and Hacking As the value of information goes up, it is attracting more sophisticated kinds of thievery... Capers Jones is Chief Scientist Emeritus of Software Productivity Research and author of numerous books on software engineering... Read Story | Discuss 5. Google on the prowl, Web attacks increase, social networks unravel There's no shortage of forecasts for the coming year. We've compiled a slew of predictions -- including the idea that some unemployed IT pros may soon turn to life of crime. That particular nugget comes from security vendor Finjan. While it's no stretch to say that cybercrime will rise in 2009, Finjan put a spin on its cybercrime prediction, saying the growth will occur "with an increasing number of unemployed IT professionals joining in." Read Story | Discuss

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