To subscribe to the newsletter, please leave a message here with the word "Subscribe" in message body! China Blacklists Unregistered Individual Websites China has recently brought about new regulations requiring compulsory registration of all websites. According to the new regulations, the Domain Name can be registered by persons having business licences. That implies, private individuals will not be allowed to register any new Domain Name and it may also jeopardise the ownership of existing Domain Names held by Individual. The authorities will place all the Domain Names under the Black List, and only registered Domains would be kept under White List and would be accessible. The reasons provided by China Internet NIC for taking such drastic steps relates to the concerns over widespread pronographic content on personal websites. The website owners in some regions of China have already complained about inaccessibility of their websites. As all the unregistered Domains, whether local or foreign, are almost bocked, i.e. they don’t resolve. The Domain Name registering companies offering .CN Domains have already suspeded registering of new domains effective from 21st December 2009. Read More

India 1. Delhi High Court gets the first E-court in India Delhi High Court Justice Shri S Ravindra Bhat now has a court embedded with the latest of Technology. The gadgets like LCD and touch-screen notebooks replaced the bulky files with an assurance of speedy justice for all. Read Story | Discuss 2. CBI arrests software company owner for piracy of Microsoft Products The Managing Director of K.K.Solutions, Kamlesh Jha, has been arrested by CBI on a complaint by Microsoft on the grounds of piracy and manipulation of genuine Microsoft Products. Read Story | Discuss 3. Copright Act 1957 amendments in view of Digital Technology The Ministry of Human Resource Development has proposed the amendments in the exisitng Copyright Act 1957, in order to gain clarity, remove operational difficulties and to address the newer issues that have emerged in the context of digital technology and the internet. Read Story | Discuss 4. Ankit Fadia’s website hackingmobilephones hacked Ankit Fadia, the well known cyber security expert’s website http://www.hackingmobilephones.com was hacked and an invisible link to a website named www.uindy.edu and some other similar ones were inserted. These were related to advertising and promoting Viagra online. The hacker got undetected. Read Story | Discuss 5. Yahoo, Flickr and Microsoft introduce access filters A Guardian investigation has discovered that several internet companies have quietly introduced filters to prevent Indian users from accessing sexual content. The Yahoo search engine and Flickr photo-sharing site (owned by Yahoo) altered their sites earlier this month to prevent users in India from switching off the safe-search facility. Read Story | Discuss USA 1. Major International Hacker Pleads Guilty for Massive Attack on U.S. Retail... Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to hack into computer networks supporting major American retail and financial organizations, and to steal data relating to tens of millions of credit and debit cards. Read Story | Discuss 2. Charges Filed in P2P Scheme to Access Bank Accounts and Transfer Fund United States Attorney Karen P. Hewitt announced that Jeffrey Steven Girandola and Kajohn Phommavong have been charged in a previously sealed 16-count indictment handed up by a federal grand jury on November 20, 2009, with Conspiracy, Computer Fraud, Access Device Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft. Read Story | Discuss 3. New York Man Arrested on Federal Charges of Illegally Distributing Copy of a Movie Sanchez, 47, who resides in The Bronx, was arrested at his home without incident. This morning’s arrest follows an indictment returned on December 10 by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles that charges Sanchez with uploading the copyrighted “X-Men Origins: Wolverine to www.Megaupload.com last spring. Read Story | Discuss 4. Microsoft Tackles the Child Pornography Problem The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children assists law-enforcement authorities by culling through 250,000 images a week, looking for illegal material, and sends daily alerts to 68 Internet service providers worldwide. Read Story | Discuss 5. Largest spam gang fined $15m by US court A US district court has ordered the largest known "spam gang" to pay $15.5 million (£9.4 million) for sending e-mails estimated to have accounted for as much as one third of the world's junk mail. Read Story | Discuss Europe 1. Wikipedia to disclose user's IP address in blackmail case The High Court has ordered the publishers of the Wikipedia user-generated encyclopaedia to reveal information which could identify a contributor in a blackmail case involving an unnamed famous businesswoman. Read Story | Discuss 2. Turkey’s state Telecommunications authority asks Youtube to create Turkish version Turkey's telecommunications authority has reportedly asked famous video-sharing website Youtube to launch its Turkish version to be unblocked in the country. Read Story | Discuss 3. More than 1,200 UK shopping websites shut down More than 1,200 illegal internet shopping websites that have made millions of pounds for criminals have been shut down by Scotland Yard in the biggest operation of its kind in Britain. Read Story | Discuss 4. UK police take down fake designer goods sites UK police have completed a massive take-down operation, after targeting scam websites selling fake designer goods. Read Story | Discuss 5. Expert claims file-sharing Bill could give Government control of the internet The Digital Economy Bill would give the Government the power to control the internet access of UK citizens by ministerial order, bypassing Parliament and without an adequate right of appeal, according to one legal expert. Read Story | Discuss Asia-Pacafic 1. AU - could soon have the most restrictive internet regime in the Western world Senator Stephen Conroy's consultation paper on mandating the filtering of internet sites by Australian internet service providers suggests that our nation could soon have the most restrictive internet regime in the Western world. Read Story | Discuss 2. China Blacklists Unregistered Individual Websites China has recently brought about new regulations requiring compulsory registration of all websites. According to the new regulations, the Domain Name can be registered by persons having business licences. That implies, private individuals will not be allowed to register any new Domain Name and it may also jeopardise the ownership of existing Domain Names held by Individual. Read Story | Discuss 3. 'Iranian cyber army' hits Twitter A group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army managed to redirect Twitter users to its own site displaying a political message. Twitter said the attack had been carried out by getting at the servers that tell web browsers where to find particular sites. The site said it would start an investigation into what allowed the "unplanned downtime" to take place Read Story | Discuss 4. CN - Website porn tip-offs surge as China offers cash rewards to informers Tip-offs on Internet and mobile WAP sites containing pornographic contents have surged in China as authorities announced to give each qualified informer with up to 10,000 yuan (1,465 U.S. dollars) in reward. Since the announcement, the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center had received more than 13,000 online tip-offs and more than 500 phone calls, 10 times the usual daily number. Read Story | Discuss Security & Privacy 1. New SQL Injection Attack Loads Invisible iFrame A security researcher has identified a new attack that has infected almost 300,000 webpages with links that direct visitors to a potent cocktail of malicious exploits. Read Story | Discuss 2. German ISPs team up with gov agency to clean up malware The German government is planning to establish a botnet cleanup helpline for computer users affected by malware infection. Read Story | Discuss 3. Privacy policy clause is not justification for revealing identity,US court rules An anonymous web user who posted a comment under an online newspaper story cannot be un-masked, a US Court has ruled. It found that the person did not waive his rights to anonymity despite the contents of the site's privacy policy. Read Story | Discuss 4. Yahoo Issues Takedown Notice for Spying Price List Yahoo isn’t happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides law enforcement agencies has leaked onto the web. Read Story | Discuss 5. Judge Dismisses Shareholder Suit Against Heartland for Data Breach A US District Court Judge has granted a motion by Heartland Payment Systems to dismiss a class-action lawsuit filed by company shareholders. Read Story | Discuss Intellectual Propoerty Rights 1. Software development agreement did not transfer copyright, rules High Court A company has failed in its attempt to declare itself the owner of software that it paid another company to develop. The High Court has refused to declare that copyright in the software passed to Infection Control Enterprises Ltd (ICEL). Read Story | Discuss 2. Lucasfilm cannot enforce US copyright ruling, rules Court of Appeal The makers of sci-fi blockbuster Star Wars have failed in their bid to establish that they owned the copyright in the helmets of the film's sinister stormtrooper army. In an appeal they lost a right, granted earlier, to enforce a US copyright ruling. Read Story | Discuss 3. Europe's ISPs object to secret copyright treaty talks Secret trade talks on counterfeits and copyright threaten to undermine citizens' rights without giving them a voice in negotiations, European internet service providers (ISPs) have warned. Read Story | Discuss 4. Google gives news publishers greater ability to limit free access Google has changed its search engine and Google News services to help newspaper publishers more closely control access to articles that require a subscription. It is now possible for newspapers to limit one person to reading five stories per day for free. Read Story | Discuss 5. Record label attempts to make Google and Microsoft liable for linked-to infringe A record label is suing Google and Microsoft, claiming that the fact that the companies' search engines link to pages that themselves contain links to copyright-infringing material, they are liable for that copyright infringement. Read Story | Discuss

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