The National Crime Records Bureau(NCRB), which compiles State-wise data on various crimes in India under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and Indian Penal Code (IPC), does not have any comparable data to comment on the prevailing cyber crime scenario in the world. As per information compiled by NCRB, during the years 2005, 2006 and 2007, a total of 179,142 and 217 cases were registered in the country under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and a total of 302,311 and 339 cases were registered in the country under cyber crime related Sections of the IPC, respectively.
The existing Information Technology Act, 2000 provides for legal framework to prevent cyber crimes. Further, the Act has been amended to include provisions to address computer crimes like phishing, spamming, online frauds and identity theft as also for data protection The Department of Information Technology (DIT) has set up Resource Centre for Cyber Forensics at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC, Thiruvanathapuram), which has developed indigenous cyber forensic tools. These tools are now being used by agencies to investigate cyber crime cases. The C-DAC, Thiruvanathapuram also conducts training programmes for law enforcement agencies on these tools. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) provides reactive and proactive support to the cyber incidents in the country. It also liaisons with similar agencies worldwide and users of cyber space in the country including Government, public or private and issues alerts, advisories and vulnerability notes. These advisories are also published on the website of CERT-In. The CERT-In also interacts with cyber users in the country to mitigate such incidents.
Computer security software firm Symantec claims cybercrime is on the rise and is proving recession-proof. The company has been conducting a year-long study into what it calls the 'underground economy' and estimates the cost of online credit card fraud at 4.5 billion dollars (USD) per annum.
India
1. Police seek Google help on Haryana politicians’ porn pictures
The search giant Google has been approached by the Chandigarh police after apparently morphed pornographic photographs of leading Haryana politicians were posted on the internet.
2. Supreme Court refuses to go easy on hate community created on Orkut
The Supreme Court has refused to quash criminal proceedings against a computer science student who created a hate community, ‘I hate Shiv Sena’, on social networking site Orkut, where a member of the community, which is over 500-strong, posted a death threat against Sena chief Bal Thackeray, while others accused the Sena chief and his party of dividing the country on religious, caste and regional lines, reports Telegraph.
3. Mangalore: Need to frame law to prevent cyber crimes stressed
There is a need to frame law to prevent cyber crimes which are increasing in the country,” said Minister for Higher Education Aravinda Limbavalli. Speaking at a two-day seminar on 'Revamping the system of legal education in India'.
4. Satyam probe: CID begins scrutinizing data
The CID has started the pain-staking process of scrutinizing electronic data that runs into terabytes that has been recovered from personal laptops of Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju his brother Rama Raju and former chief financial officer V Srinivas, and several computers of Satyam Computer Services.
5. Obscene photos of Noor’s friend uploaded from Delhi café
The sexually explicit photographs of Pooja (name changed), Noor Kataria’s friend, and her fiancé were uploaded on a social networking website from a Wi-Fi-activated café in South Delhi in January this year.
6. Nigerian National Held for Defrauding Businessman in Mumbai
The CCIC (Cyber Crime Investigation Cell) of the Mumbai Police Crime Branch detained a Nigerian resident because he feigned as a diplomat and tricked a local businessman into handing over US$ 8,780 in an e-mail scam.
1. Rude awakening: Man gets 15 years in Cybercrime case
A 47-year-old Connecticut man accused of traveling to Clermont last year to have sex with who he thought was a 7-year-old girl, will serve 15 years in prison in a plea deal made Friday.
2. Three Arrested For Using Stolen Cards from Heartland Hack
A three month joint investigation by the Leon County Sheriffs Office, Tallahassee Police Department and the United States Secret Service has resulted in the arrest of three people and shut down a major theft ring which was associated with the Heartland Payment Systems stolen credit cards.
3. Bank reports debit card security breach
The Cedar Point Federal Credit Union notified some of its members Wednesday that their debit card information may have been exposed during a security breach at a purchase processing center. According to Cedar Point officials, the computer system of a processing center that services local business was hacked, and the attacker may have gained access to debit card information.
4. New FBI web site tracks cyber crooks
Lori and Michael Garnett of Ladson thought nothing of it when they decided to try to sell a computer desk on Craigslist. Their asking price was $775. They quickly got an offer from out of state. The buyer sent a check for $3,225 dollars to cover the cost of the desk and shipping. He told the Garnetts to send back the difference to the shipping company.
5. Chinese Hackers Attack U.S. Computers, Thompson Says
Chinese government and freelance hackers are the primary culprits behind as many as several hundred daily attacks against U.S. government, electric-utility and financial computer networks, a senior congressman said.
6. Threat of Cyber Crime Continues to Increase
The cyber threat confronting the United States is rapidly increasing as the number of actors with the tools and abilities to use computers against the United States or its interests is rising. The country’s vulnerability is escalating as the US economy and critical infrastructures become increasingly reliant on interdependent computer networks and the World Wide Web. Large scale computer attacks on US critical infrastructure and economy would have potentially devastating results.
1. UK's poor record on prosecuting hackers revealed
Experts have called for more police resources to fight computer crime, after it emerged that only 299 hackers have been charged under the UK's computer crime law over the past four years.
2. Italy To Hire Convicted Romanian Hacker
A 22-year old convicted Romanian hacker is to be hired by the District Attorney's office in Como, northern Italy, to help it catch paedophiles and other online criminals, Romanian TV station Realitatea reports.
3. Facebook Says Italy’s Plan to Block Web Content Goes Too Far
Facebook Inc., the world’s largest social-networking site, said that it is concerned about Italy’s proposed law to force Internet providers to block access to Web sites that incite or justify criminal behavior. “We have not seen the language of the bill, but reports about it concern us,” said Debbie Frost, a Facebook spokeswoman, in an e-mail. The legislation is “akin to shutting down the country’s entire railroad network because of some objectionable graffiti in one train station.”
4. Orthodox priest busted on child porn charges
After an investigation that lasted more than two years and involved the cooperation of several police forces from around the world, the Cyber Crime Unit of the Greek police has broken the biggest child pornography ring active in the country to date.
5. Cyber crime wave targets on-line bank accounts
On-line banking is a risky business for customers who do not take appropriate security measures. Denmark is currently facing a wave of cyber attacks, but even though banks beef up their defences, they say there is little they can do when it comes to the weakest link – users themselves, reports Politiken newspaper.
6. Sebarian Government adopted several bills
The bills on affirming the protocol accompanying the European Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism, on affirming the Council of Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism and the bill on affirming the Convention on Cybercrime were also adopted.
1. Pak: FIA taking effective steps to curb cyber crime
FEDERAL Investigation Agency (FIA) is taking effective measures to curb cyber crime in the country besides creating awareness among the masses about it. This was stated by Director FIA Punjab Muhammad Azam Joyia while speaking at a seminar on “Cyber Crime” held by Lahore High Court Bar Association on Tuesday.
2. Cyber-crime cases hit record high in Japan in 2008+
The police across Japan uncovered 6,321 cases of Internet-related or cyber crime in 2008, up 15.5 percent from the previous year and the highest number since comparable data became available in 2000, a National Police Agency survey showed Thursday.
3. Malaysia: Definition Needed For Cyber Terrorism
The international community needs to come up with a consensus on the definition of cyber terrorism, and the appropriate laws for it. CyberSecurity chief executive officer Lt Col (R) Husin Jasri said currently, any form of attack on an individual, organisation or service in cyberspace was still categorised as 'cyber crime', even though it might bring on a threat of a national level or incur economic losses.
4. 2 Jamaat men arrested over war crime charges
Police say they arrested two Jamaat-e-Islami activists from Mohanpur Upazila early Friday morning in a case that charged them with war crimes. Officer in charge of Mohanpur Police Station Asaduzzaman Milon said Daud Hossain, 70, and Noor Anwar, 65, were picked up from their homes in Dyeing Para-Berabari area.
5. Fatima Bhutto Fears Prosecution under Cyber Law Act
Fatima Bhutto fears that she could be liable for prosecution for her writings criticizing the government, under the ‘prevention of electronic crimes ordinance’ introduced in the shape of a bill before the parliament recently. Writing in the Guardian on Thursday, Miss Bhutto said Pakistan’s ‘so-called democratic government’ had introduced the bill “to censor our already frightened media”.
6. Thailand: The mouse that roared in the pursuit of pirates
Little did he know that one mouse click on a pornographic website could lead to the seizure of illegal products worth more than 20 million baht. But, on Feb 12, that one click led a chief investigator of an operation into intellectual property infringements to the seizure of a massive haul of pirated goods.
1. Citibank Hit by Nigerian Scam
Trouble times ahead for citi bank, as Nigerian scam artists are back into their original business.
As we see financial scams are making much round these days, people need to be aware of the these frauds which are going wild these days . All these scams aims only one thing to gain the, personal identity and financial information.
2. Spam Traffic Increases in Russia
Chief of Kaspersky Lab Content Filtration, Andrei Nikishin, reveals that the share of spam in Russia touched 82.1% of total mail traffic during 2008, an expansion of almost 2.1% points from 2007, as reported by RosBusinessConsulting on February 4, 2009
3. Are E-Commerce Merchants at Risk in Mystery Data Breach?
Days before the Heartland Data Breach was announced, volunteer computer security experts at the Open Security Foundation had already figured out what had occurred. Many believe Heartland is going to become the largest data breach in history and will surpass the TJX caper. At this point, only time will tell.
4. Google Gmail crash fixed
Google has confirmed that its web-based email service, Gmail, is up and running again, after a system crash this morning left millions of users around the world unable to send and receive emails.
5. Adobe to Patch Five Flaws in Flash
Adobe is patching its Flash multimedia software to fix five flaws affecting Windows, OS X and Linux systems. InfoWorld reports that the update addresses a critical flaw that could allow a hacker to access a PC via a malicious SWF (Shockwave Flash) file. Two other updates fix potential problems with "clickjacking," while the remaining two address a potential denial-of-service condition caused by an input validation problem.
6. McAfee: New spam scams emerge
This scam’s delivery method is a clever bit of social engineering that relies on the fear of having one’s identity stolen. By raising the possibility of an unauthorized credit card payment, victims might click on the attachment without first thinking through the consequences, which include opening the door to identity thieves. The .zip file contains an executable that infects the machine with the ZBot Trojan.
