To subscribe to the newsletter, please leave a message here with the word "Subscribe" in message body! Australian Cyber Crime Report Released Last Month, the Australian Government issued the mega Report of the Inquiry into Cyber Crime, titled: "Hackers, Fraudsters and Botnets: Tackling the Problem of Cyber Crime", which mainly looks into the possibilities of containing cyber crime. Report looks into the various aspects of Cyber Crime, its definition, trend, types, causes, etc. And recommends measures like: No Anti Virus - No Internet Connection ! The creation of an around-the-clock cyber crime helpline. Changes to the law to make unauthorised installation of software illegal. Companies who release IT products with security vulnerabilities should be open to claims for compensation by consumers. ISPs mandatory obligation to inform end users when their IP address has been identified as linked to an infected machine(s). Systematic Cyber Crime data collection that allows data to be aggregated. E-security alerts tailored to the needs of ordinary consumers and small and medium sized businesses. Public information about cyber crime types and preventative measures to increase online personal security. Identify processes that should be put in place to identify fraudulent activity before the domain name registration takes effect and the type of information that should be collected during the process by the registrar, that would help to preserve evidence and assist law enforcement authorities. Complete Report: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/coms/cybercrime/report/full_report.pdf

India 1. Three arrested for mobile fraud The Cyber Crime Cell of the city police arrested three persons who flouted Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) guidelines by implanting International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number in mobile handsets from Korea. Read Story | Discuss 2. Man Threatening Hotel West-In Arrested From Bangalore A 40 year old jobless man has been arrested from Bangalore by the cyber crime cell of Pune police. The man had sent threat e-mail to the West In hotel in city. He had threatened to trigger a blast in the hotel and asked Rs 5 Crores of ransom to avoid the same. Read Story | Discuss 3. Chandigarh Housing Board site yet to be restored, cyber crime cell clueless With the CHB website being hacked, hundreds of people who used to visit it almost everyday, are facing a tough time. Though it has been around a week that the website got hacked, the officials are yet to rectify the situation. Read Story | Discuss 4. Porn' doctor acquitted in drugs case L Prakash, a city-based orthopaedic surgeon sentenced to life term in a cyber porn case and 10-year rigorous imprisonment in a narcotics case, was on Thursday acquitted by the Madras high court in the drugs case owing to lack of evidence. However, the doctor will remain in prison to serve the life term in the pornography case. Read Story | Discuss 5. Man loses Rs 10.7 lakh in online 'Nigerian fraud' Cyber Crime investigators busted a ‘Nigerian fraud’ gang which duped a city-based retired bank employee to the tune of Rs 10.7 lakh in the name of providing a job to his son. Read Story | Discuss USA 1. Links to blog in email made sender liable, says US court A US bankruptcy court has said that a man committed defamation just by forwarding an email with links in it to online material that was defamatory. The court said that the man 'published' the blog to his email recipients. Read Story | Discuss 2. Keyword use did not create confusion, rules Canadian court A Canadian college should be allowed to use another organisation's business name as a trigger for search engine adverts, a court there has ruled. Laws on misleading advertising should not prevent the use because it did not create confusion, it said. Read Story | Discuss 3. Comprehensive Cyber Legislation Approved The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee yesterday unanimously approved a major cybersecurity legislation that would structure how the federal government protects public and private sector cyber networks. Read Story | Discuss 4. Stonewall Man Pleads to Child Pornography Charges Michael Knight, 31, of Stonewall pleaded guilty Friday to possession of child pornography, involving a stepdaughter who was 6-years-old at the time. The Mississippi Attorney General's Office prosecuted the case. Read Story | Discuss 5. EFF, Public Citizen And ACLU Ask Judge To Quash Mass Subpoenas From US Copyright While companies like Verizon apparently won't stand up to protect their users' rights against the ridiculous and overly broad mass copyright infringement lawsuit filings made by a group called US Copyright Group (really a DC-based lawfirm called Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver), Time Warner Cable is pushing back, but mainly on procedural issues -- not in any way to stand up for the rights of those being sued. Read Story | Discuss Europe 1. Three Arrested in Spain for Allegedly Planting Logic Bombs in Custom Spanish authorities have arrested three people in connection with an alleged logic bomb scheme. The three are managers at a Spanish software company, and are accused of planting logic bombs in the custom software they marketed to other businesses. Read Story | Discuss 2. Cybercrime on the increase in the Netherlands The number of instances of serious cyber crime in the Netherlands has reached 170 so far this year, compared with 150 cases in 2009 as a whole, internet security watchdog Govcert says in Tuesday's Financieele Dagblad. Read Story | Discuss 3. Ireland publishes proposed data breach notification rules Irish organisations which lose the personal data of more than 100 people will have to report the data security breach to the authorities, according to new rules proposed by that country's privacy regulator. Read Story | Discuss 4. EU law allows national bans on internet gambling, rules ECJ European countries are within their rights to create gambling monopolies and to ban internet gambling companies from other EU countries operating, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said. Read Story | Discuss 5. Police arrest London teenagers in cyber crime swoop The Metropolitan Police has arrested two London youths for their alleged roles in an international cyber crime forum. The teenagers were picked up yesterday on suspicion of encouraging or assisting crime, unauthorised access under the Computer Misuse Act and conspiracy to commit fraud. Read Story | Discuss Others 1. South Korean Government Website Hit With DDoS Attack A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a South Korean government website has reportedly been traced to servers based in China. A South Korean government official said that they are working on uncovering the attack's origins. Read Story | Discuss 2. Anti-Thai royal sites tackled THE Thai cabinet on Tuesday approved the creation of a new cyber crime agency to stamp out online criticism of the revered monarchy. The government, which has removed tens of thousands of web pages in recent years for insulting the royal family, said the main task of the Bureau of Prevention and Eradication of Computer Crime would be to protect the monarchy. Read Story | Discuss 3. Qatar stresses need to combat cyber crime Sheikha Alia Ahmed bin Saif al-Thani, Qatar’s acting permanent delegate to the UN, stressed the need for understanding cyber crime from the regional and international perspective and also the need for exchanges to keep pace with the technological evolution in crime across national borders. Read Story | Discuss 4. Aussie pols want compulsory AV software and firewalls As the Australian Government continues to grapple with the issue of how best to protect the nation from internet nastiness, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications has just lobbed a major new element into the debate in the form of a mega-report on cyber-crime. Read Story | Discuss 5. America to help Nigeria tackle cyber crime Cyber crime and scam mails have done a lot of damage to Nigeria’s image. Therefore, the Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, is partnering with the government of the United States to take steps towards improving Nigeria’s monitoring and investigations skills, so as to minimise the impact of such cyber misuse. The partnership is also expected to address network and data insecurity. Read Story | Discuss Security & Privacy 1. Cookie compliance: privacy regulators make the best of a bad law EU privacy watchdogs have just given their view on it and while web publishers will still wince, the regulators' view is more accommodating for business than it could have been. The EU's Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive was changed last year in a way that demands that websites get every visitor's consent before sending cookies to their machines. Read Story | Discuss 2. Malware Found in Some Windows Phone Apps Certain Windows-based mobile phone applications distributed on up to nine download sites contain malware. The scammers appear to have copied and repackaged familiar applications with malware code embedded. The malware causes the infected phones to make calls to premium rate numbers around the world, so users are hit with surprise charges on their bills. Read Story | Discuss 3. DoS attack stuffs Turkey's internet censors Access to the internet in Turkey is becoming increasingly ragged, as growing state censorship collides with retaliation by anti-censorship hackers, leading to difficulties both in viewing sites and applying key online functions. Read Story | Discuss 4. French Data Protection Authority Finds Passwords and eMail Text in Google's Data French data protection authority French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL) reports that Google collected passwords and email messages while gathering images for its Street View feature. CNIL's preliminary study included examination of some of the collected data collected in France. Read Story | Discuss 5. Google Changes Encrypted Search Engine's Address Google has changed the address of its encrypted search engine to make it easier for schools and universities to block the site without blocking access to other Google services. Read Story | Discuss

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