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China mounts cyber attacks on Indian sites
China’s cyber warfare army is marching on, and India is suffering silently. Over the past one and a half years, officials said, China has mounted almost daily attacks on Indian computer networks, both government and private, showing its intent and capability.
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Govt may get keys to your BlackBerry mailbox soon
In a major change of stance, Canada-based Research In Motion (RIM) may allow the Indian government to intercept non-corporate emails sent over BlackBerrys. This is expected to solve the row between the Department of Telecom (DoT) and RIM to a large extent, since the government’s security concerns pertain more to emails from individual users than enterprise customers.
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British newspaper websites liable in France for privacy invasion
Two British newspaper publishers have been fined in French courts because they violated French privacy laws. The publishers were liable because the articles were viewed in France on the internet.
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South American hacker exposes privacy flaws
An anonymous hacker has posted six million details of Chilean residents online in a bid to highlight data-protection problems in the country.
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Tata designs service to defend cyber attacks
Amid growing concerns of cyber attacks on Indian government and private computer networks, Tata Communications today said it has designed a 'Detection and Mitigation' service to defend such attacks on critical network infrastructure and business applications.
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Microsoft's new product goes against crime: Meet (Hot) COFEE
Cyber-crimes have evolved from hackers fighting against the views of government to sophisticated identity theft, breaking into banks and various criminal activities. So far, local police organizations have been losing a lot of time to recover data from such machines, and they need all the help they can get. Now Microsoft is joining the fight.
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EU raises privacy issue for Google Street View
“Street View is only available in the U.S. still, but I understand that it will work differently when it’s launched in Canada, so there is a capacity to deploy the service in different ways to suit different privacy laws,” Hustinx said in a press conference, adding: “I’d encourage Google to work closely with European data-protection authorities too.”
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Internet virus hidden in cartoon
A Japanese student has been suspected of embedding a computer virus in an image in an animated film before illegally distributing it online. Masato Nakatsuji has now been found guilty of copyright infringement and has received a suspended prison sentence.
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IRS warns of fake e-mail, phone calls from identity thieves
Taxpayers who scrambled to meet the April 15 tax filing deadline have something else to worry about this year - an uptick in scams that prey on the unsuspecting. Nothing appears too brazen for the con artists seeking to commit identity theft at the taxpayer's expense.
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PCC issues 250 privacy rulings in a year
The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) made 250 rulings on alleged media breaches of privacy last year, it has said. The printed media's self-regulatory body said that it had received 100 privacy complaints during the year.
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