Trademark "CyberLaw" backed off !!! You may recall that last month we all had a good laugh over self-proclaimed Cyberlawyer Eric Menhart's trademark application for the term "CyberLaw" to describe his Cyberlaw practice. (In case it wasn't clear, we weren't laughing WITH him...). Despite his initial blustery defense of the application (which, as a reader noted to me, violated the First Rule of Holes), Menhart has now backed off his claim to own the term "CyberLaw." Instead, he has amended his application to seek a trademark registration only in his stylized CyberLaw logo. Read More: Eric Menhart Backs Off CyberLaw Trademark Claim Advertisement .ASIA Domain Names Registration starts 25th March Visit us at: ArcherSoftech.com Payment Options: Draft or Credit Card You can advertise here. Contact Us for more details...

India 1. Singapore-based IT firm files ‘cyber-defamation’ complaint For the first time in the history of Chandigarh Police’s Cyber Crime Cell, a Singapore-based Information Technology company — eSys Technologies Limited — has moved a criminal complaint against an unidentified source on charges of “cyber-defamation”. The company alleged that an anonymous mailer is circulating e-mails, which contain maligning statements about the group, sent from fake IDs to the public at large. Read Story | Discuss 2. Amol Palekar done in for Rs 60,000 in a cyber fraud Actor-director, Amol Palekar lost Rs 60,258 in an e-fraud. An unknown person booked two air tickets through online transactions from his credit card account in the Bank of India, Mumbai. The actor lodged a complaint at the Deccan Gymkhana police station on Tuesday evening. Read Story | Discuss 3. Man held for cyber porn A BPO staffer had who created a fake profile of a minor girl on the internet and posted pornographic material has been arrested by the Karnataka Cyber Crime Cell. Read Story | Discuss 4. Cyber crime case cracked, 1 held The Cyber Crime Investigations Cell of the Chandigarh Police’s Crime Branch arrested one Jatinder Singh Marok, who works as a process executive with the IDS Infotech Limited in Phase VIII, Mohali, on Wednesday on the charges of uploading an obscene profile of a girl on the networking website, Orkut. Read Story | Discuss 5. Absconding cyber criminal nabbed The Cyber Crime Cell of Pune police has arrested a cyber criminal Kamal Jethva, who was wanted in the e-trading fraud registered in October 2006. Jethva was nabbed at Badoda on Thursday by a team of cyber crime cell led by assistant police inspector Sudhakar Kate. Read Story | Discuss 6. BPOs, IT cos scout for cyber insurance Virtual crime is climbing. Cyber frauds, hacking and data theft by employees or outsiders in BPOs, IT & ITeS as well as e-commerce companies are on the rise. And this is exactly why more and more e-commerce entities , BPOs as well as IT & ITeS companies are scrambling for insurance covers that guard them at least from the financial loss arising out of these incidents. Read Story | Discuss USA 1. 20-Year-Old Accused Of Using MySpace For Cyber-Stalking A local woman was stalked on a popular website and the Internet giant helped track down the suspect. The victim said her ex-boyfriend made the threatening statements on her MySpace page. Read Story | Discuss 2. CMS student charged with cyber crime A Providence High School student has been charged with committing a cyber crime and faces tough school disciplinary measures for allegedly posting defamatory information about a teacher on a Web site. The district is also taking disciplinary action against four other students who were involved. Read Story | Discuss 3. Man gets county's harshest online sex solicitation sentence In August, Kelley was arrested outside this computer store where he worked. Police said they found him wearing his name tag: “Anthony K.” The 58-year-old was charged with two counts of online solicitation of a minor and possession of child pornography. In court documents, Harris County detectives said he was caught in a chat room having sexually explicit discussions with a 13-year-old girl. Currently the plans are at the draft stage, but if passed, this could essentially mean the end to any form of privacy on the internet. Read Story | Discuss 4. FBI probes USM Web site breach The University of Southern Mississippi's main Web site was shut down much of Friday as university and FBI officials investigated a hacking incident in which someone used the school's site to send out spam e-mail. USM's chief information officer, Homer Coffman, said the school notified the FBI's Cyber Crime Division after the Wednesday breech. Read Story | Discuss 5. NY - Bill Seeks Cyber Protection From Sex Predators A new bill announced last week by the State Attorney General, and members of the State Senate and Assembly seeks to ban dangerous sex offenders from social networking Web sites and force convicted predators to register screen names and e-mail addresses with the state. Read Story | Discuss 6. New Cyber Crime Law in Chile Since e-commerce is growing fast in Latin American countries, these countries are steadily enacting legislation against cyber-crimes. There are innumerable types of cyber-crimes. The most currently and internationally prosecuted are, (i) Internet fraud (including businesses, auctions, merchants, securities, ect.); (ii) identity theft; (iii) hacking, data theft and destruction; (iv) child predation and pornography; (v) cyber-stalking; (vi) extortion and sabotage; and (vii) terrorism. Read Story | Discuss Europe 1. German Court Abolishes German Snooping Law Robert writes to mention that Germany's highest court has imposed limitations on the amount of spying governmental bodies can do on a suspect's computer. The ruling comes in response to a state law on North Rhine Westphalia that had allowed secret services to peer into a citizen's computer. Read Story | Discuss 2. European Union fines Microsoft record $1.3 billion in AntiTrust matter European antitrust regulators on Wednesday fined Microsoft €899 million for failing to comply with a 2004 judgment that found the company had abused its market dominance. Read Story | Discuss 3. Ireland: Fears for personal data as 80 government laptops missing HACKERS are targeting state departments for sensitive information. More than 80 government laptops have been stolen or are missing, raising fears about the protection of confidential data. Read Story | Discuss 4. Cyber-savvy town gets rich on eBay frauds HUNDREDS of people in the poor Romanian town of Dragasani have grown rich by conning eBay online auction customers with deals that seem too good to be true - and often are. The scammers have even put the new town hall up for sale on eBay, the mayor admitted last week. “I mean, who would want it?” he asked. Read Story | Discuss 5. Cyber crime hits record levels One in three internet users is vulnerable to online criminals as instances of 'phishing' are predicted to soar to record levels this year. And computer giant Microsoft is predicting the three biggest threats in 2008 will be from bogus electronic greeting cards, phishing emails and telephone scams. Read Story | Discuss 6. EU lacks legislation to police cyber crime Europe plays host to a number of “well-known” internet sites run by terrorist groups, but has taken “no action” to combat them, Russia’s ambassador to the EU has said. Read Story | Discuss Asia 1. Japan: Virus writers charged with copyright violation Japan has arrested its first suspected virus writers, but in a strange twist the three suspected creators and distributors of a strain of P2P malware have been charged with copyright violation, in an arrest that recalls Al Capone's prosecution for tax evasion. Read Story | Discuss 2. Russia supersedes China as largest malware producer Analysts at security vendor PC Tools today revealed that Russia has superseded China as the world’s highest producer of spyware and viruses, with Russia now accounting for 27.89% of malware while China accounts for 26.52%. Read Story | Discuss 3. Pakistan lifts ban on YouTube Pakistan has lifted the ban on YouTube after the video-sharing website removed content that was offensive to Islam. "We have issued instructions to all Internet service providers that YouTube should be unblocked as the specific content has been removed by the website," Pakistan Telecommunications Authority spokesman Khurram Mehran told a foreign news agency. Read Story | Discuss 4. China asks Web sites to eradicate porn, violence China has called on domestic Web sites to sign a voluntary pact governing online video and audio content, saying they should exercise self-censorship to ensure a "healthy and orderly" cyberspace. The move is part of government efforts to exert greater control over China's rapidly growing Internet sector, and to prevent content deemed harmful or subversive from getting into the public domain. Read Story | Discuss 5. Philipines: Live-in couple arrested for cyber sex operation A live-in couple were charged following their arrest last Friday in Barangay Suba, Bayawan City by the police for cyber sex operation. Charged for violation of section 9, article 6 of Republic Act 7610 were Raffy Nuico and his live-in partner Sheryl Gemina, both temporarily residing at Barangay Suba. Read Story | Discuss 6. Arab region presses for heightened cybersecurity Recognizing that cybersecurity has global implications that requires regional and international efforts as well as close collaboration between governments and industry, the Forum pressed for each country in the region to develop capabilities using a new ITU Cybersecurity Framework intended to assist in the formulation of national cybersecurity polices and to protect critical information infrastructures. Read Story | Discuss Australia & Africa 1. Jail for Facebook spoof Moroccan A Moroccan computer engineer has been sentenced to three years in jail for setting up a Facebook profile in the name of a member of the royal family. Read Story | Discuss 2. Algeria to adopt cyber-crime law Algeria will soon unveil a draft law on combating cyber crimes, Echourouk reported on Saturday (February 16th). The paper quoted Nouar Harzellah, general manager of the private internet provider EEPAD, as saying that representatives of several ministries and security services experts worked out the draft law to create tools designed to fight cyber crimes including hacking, illegal money transfers, the promotion of sex, corruption and plagiarism. The new bill would impose sanctions ranging from fines to life imprisonment. Read Story | Discuss 3. Police chief links use of internet to crime wave Downloading and using materials from the internet, saying that technological advancement has led to increasing cyber-related crime in the country. Addressing a news conference yesterday in Dar es Salaam, Mwema said that developments in information and communication technology had made it easier for international criminals to fulfill their ill missions through the cyber world. Read Story | Discuss 4. NZ: 100,000 victims of electronic identity theft Nearly 100,000 New Zealanders have been victims of electronic identity theft in the past 18 months. Thousands more have been sent offensive or threatening emails. Most internet users have had equipment infiltrated by computer viruses, worms or spyware -- and could unknowingly be part of a "zombie army", sending spam to thousands of other computers. Read Story | Discuss 5. Crackdown on kid's cyber crime CYBER crime targeting children will be monitored more closely from today under a Federal Government plan to combat digital bullying. Harassment on mobile phones and internet chatrooms has soared as more and more young people access the internet. Read Story | Discuss 6. Experts urge tough penalties for cyber-bullying A US Senator is seeking tough punishment for people who use the internet for bullying. He has been motivated by the case of a 13-year-old girl in Missouri, who committed suicide after being harassed on a popular internet networking site. Read Story | Discuss Intellectual Property Rights 1. Eric Menhart Backs Off CyberLaw Trademark Claim You may recall that last month we all had a good laugh over self-proclaimed Cyberlawyer Eric Menhart's trademark application for the term "CyberLaw" to describe his Cyberlaw practice. (In case it wasn't clear, we weren't laughing WITH him...). Despite his initial blustery defense of the application (which, as a reader noted to me, violated the First Rule of Holes), Menhart has now backed off his claim to own the term "CyberLaw." Instead, he has amended his application to seek a trademark registration only in his stylized CyberLaw logo. Read Story | Discuss 2. Free software lawyers warn over Microsoft patent pledge The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has warned that promises made by Microsoft over its Office Open XML (OOXML) document formats could leave open source software developers at risk of legal action. Read Story | Discuss 3. Most British filesharers would stop if warned - survey Could the UK record industry's Three Strikes policy halt file sharing? Few give the idea much hope, at least not unless some compelling alternatives are offered - but a survey of British file-sharers suggests otherwise. Seven out of 10 British file-sharers say they would stop infringing if they received a termination warning from their ISP. The threat of cutting off one's pipe seems to be a deterrent. Read Story | Discuss 4. Music industry sues Baidu.com Three multinational record companies have filed copyright infringement claims in a Beijing court against China's most popular internet search engine, Baidu.com Inc. Universal Music Ltd, Warner Music Hong Kong Ltd and Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Hong Kong) Ltd accuse Baidu of violating copyright by providing access to music files, according to an anti-piracy lobby group. Read Story | Discuss 5. Microsoft swoops into schools to teach P2P morality Teenage intellectual property (IP) law swotters are less likely to illegally download music and film files from the internet than their clueless counterparts, Microsoft claimed yesterday. Redmond is now looking to bring the rest of the kids up to speed by pushing its own IP curriculum in schools. Read Story | Discuss Security & Privacy 1. Your hacked system may be up for lease It is a vicious lease agreement. Professional hackers are increasingly leasing out systems they have broken into, to cyber criminals for as low as 5 dollars an hour reports Pranshu Sikka Read Story | Discuss 2. Polyglot worm spreads over MSN The IRCBOT-RB Trojan poses as messages containing links to pictures on social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. Typical come-ons involve messages such as "Wanna see my pictures before i send em to facebook?". Clicking on a link takes users to booby-trapped websites. Read Story | Discuss 3. Russians behind zombie PC threat Cyber criminals are believed to have launched a renewed campaign to invade millions of home computers across the world with a so-called 'trojan', creating an international network of infected zombie computers which can then be used at will to send spam or even launch cyber attacks on websites - without the owner's knowledge. Read Story | Discuss 4. MySpace Becomes Hackers' Space A probe launched from a laptop in a coffee shop or a spare bedroom. Hackers find a pretty girl or a popular guy goofing around with friends on MySpace or Facebook. But the hackers don’t just click and watch — they invite themselves into the youths’ online world and make themselves at home. And whether by sophisticated, high-tech tools or just an old-fashioned guess of a password, they seize control of the account. Read Story | Discuss 5. Wireless worms may spread in the same manner as flu Software worms may spread between Bluetooth-enabled mobiles in the same manner as flu viruses in humans, say researchers. Read Story | Discuss 6. You might be a victim of a 'bot' attack ? A bot attack is one of the most sophisticated types of cyber crime and is often the hardest to detect. The scariest part is that you may never even know that someone has hijacked your computer. Read Story | Discuss

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