2007 Internet Crime Report A comprehensive Internet Crime Report on online crime has been released by the Internet Crime Complaint Center - IC3. Important facts and figures include: IC3 received 206,884 complaints, leading to a reported dollar loss of nearly $240 million, an all-time high as compared to $198.44 million loss in 2006. Tops Scam includes Pets, romance, and secret shoppers. Click here for the top scams of 2007. Electronic mail (e-mail) and web pages were the two primary mechanisms by which the fraudulent contact took place, in addition to phone, messenger, chat rooms, physical mail, etc. US tops the list but also a significant number of perpetrators were located in United Kingdom, Nigeria, Canada, Romania, and Italy. While most of the complainants were from the United States, IC3 received a number of complaints from Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, India, and Mexico. Download Report (PDF Document - 7603 KB) Offers Register a .IN Domain Name and get 10 MB space FREE* (*Conditions Apply) Contact Us for more details. Domain Names start @ Rs 395/yr Web Hosting starts @ Rs 300/yr Complete Website start @ Rs 4,000 Visit us at: ArcherSoftech.com

India 1. Global phishing racket busted, 3 held The crime branch busted an international phishing racket last month and arrested three persons who were involved in duping as many as 23 bank customers of about Rs 35 lakh from all over the country. Read Story | Discuss 2. Delhi Police to be trained to check cyber crimes In a bid to check cyber crime, officers of Delhi Police will be trained at the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University to detect frauds over internet. Course includes computer hardware, software and networking besides cyber crime and computer forensics during the course. Read Story | Discuss 3. Gujarat CM Modi for special courts for cyber crime "There should be greater use of technology in the judiciary and there should be at least one special court in each state to deal with cyber crime and economic offences."This is the national level prescription Gujarat Chief Minister gave at a meeting of the Chief Ministers and Chief Justices of different states in Delhi. Read Story | Discuss 4. After paper leak, email sends tremors in University of Pune A mail recently sent through Dr K C Mohite's account is at the epicenter of this new confusion at the University campus. After a weeklong frantic happenings over the paper leak issue, now it's the turn of "help me" virus to rock the University of Pune. Read Story | Discuss 5. New IT Act to penalise companies for data theft New IT Act says that companies would be made liable to protect the data which they own, process or operate, failing which they would have to face legal action. Read Story | Discuss USA 1. Canada: Court ruling paves the way for more digital surveillance Canada's biggest police association says a Supreme Court ruling on who should pay the cost of digital surveillance should clear the way for the federal government to reintroduce legislation that would help authorities to monitor Internet and wireless communications. Read Story | Discuss 2. FBI Report Shows Internet Crime Caused $240M In Losses For 2007 Internet crime shot up to a record high last year with the Internet Crime Center receiving 206,884 complaints of crimes that were committed over the Internet resulting in $240 million in losses, according to the 2007 Internet Crime report. Read Story | Discuss 3. Feds Charge California Woman With Stealing IDs From the Dead Federal prosecutors this week charged a Southern California woman with aggravated identity theft and other crimes for allegedly using a popular genealogy research website to locate people who had recently died, and then taking over their credit cards. Read Story | Discuss 4. Md. legislators approve bill aimed at curbing cyber-bullying A bill that will require public schools to develop a policy prohibiting cyber-bullying and other forms of intimidation has passed both houses of the state legislature as of April 3 and now awaits action by the governor. Read Story | Discuss 5. Brazil: Bloggers united against Wordpress The Brazilian blogosphere has not quite yet recovered from its last fright and there is already another threat on the way: a blanket ban on blogs hosted on Wordpress.com after a judicial court passed an order to close down a specific blog. Read Story | Discuss Europe 1. eBay Applauds Romanian and U.S. Law Enforcement for the cyber criminal Arrest Online auction site eBay has welcomed the arrest of the Romanian cyber-criminal known as Vladuz. eBay had accused Vladuz of attempting to defraud users by accessing administrative accounts, but claimed his efforts were unsuccessful. Read Story | Discuss 2. UK rises to number two in cyber-crime chart A REPORT PUBLISHED by the Internet Complaint Crime Centre (IC3) not only puts reported losses due to web-based crime in 2007 at an all-time high of $240 million, but also notes that criminal activity from within the UK is the second worst in the world. Read Story | Discuss 3. St. Marys man charged with Internet luring London police have arrested a St. Marys man on charges of Internet luring on the heels of a four-month investigation. Read Story | Discuss 4. Bank and credit card details traded in cyber crime supermarkets Bank and credit card details are available to buy online in so-called "cyber crime supermarkets", it has been claimed. According to Symantec, an anti-virus manufacturer, credit card details can be picked up for as little as 20p, while bank details are £5. Read Story | Discuss 5. French sites fined for linking to privacy-invading Kylie content Three French websites have been found guilty of invading an actor's privacy for publishing links to articles containing the offending material. The Paris Tribunal has fined the operators of all three sites. Read Story | Discuss Asia 1. Philippines: Consolidated cybercrime bill to be filed soon A consolidated version of a cybercrime bill filed, a state prosecutor told. Read Story | Discuss 2. Cyber bullying common in Japan school Web sites: study Japan has over 38,000 unofficial middle and high school Web sites that are not overseen by the schools, and harassment, sexual content, and violent slang are prevalent among them, an education ministry survey showed. Read Story | Discuss 3. Chinese Hacker Chickens Out On CNN Cyber Attack A Chinese site called Anti-CNN is setting out to counteract what it claims are the lies and distortion present in Western news coverage of stories concerning China and Chinese national interests. Read Story | Discuss 4. S'pore pledges US$52M against cyber threats The government today announced it will pump S$70 million (US$51.6 million) over the next five years to boost its cyber defenses and guard against emerging threats. Read Story | Discuss 5. Anti-Islam film prompts Indonesian YouTube ban Indonesia has banned access to Internet sites like YouTube and MySpace to try to stop people seeing a controversial short film about Islam. Read Story | Discuss Australia & Africa 1. New Zealand teenager convicted over international cyber crime ring A New Zealand teenager accused of being the ringleader of an international cyber-crime network has been convicted. Owen Thor Walker, 18, admitted six charges of using computer for illegal purposes and will be sentenced in May. Read Story | Discuss 2. Australian Civil liberties expert slams email spying plans The Federal Government is considering new national security laws which would allow employers to check their workers' computer use - such as emails - without the employee's consent. Read Story | Discuss 3. College-orientated website under investigation for online bullying Austen Manness is a senior at Pepperdine University in Malibu, who describes himself as a typical 22-year-old guy. But imagine his horror on finding an anonymous internet posting that described him in crude, X-rated terms. Read Story | Discuss 4. Strategy draft signals intent on cybercrime The government is planning to make New Zealand party to the European Convention on Cybercrime, the draft Digital Strategy 2.0 revealed last month New Zealand already provides in its domestic law for most of the measures outlined under the convention, signed by the countries of the European Union and also by the US and requiring laws against the misuse of computer systems, money laundering, the production and distribution of child pornography and copyright offences. Read Story | Discuss 5. EFCC Arrests 10 over Cyber Crime Ondo Men of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), late Tuesday, stormed Cyber Cafés in Akure, Ondo State capital and arrested some suspects and the operator, for allegedly engaging in cyber-related crimes. The men, who came in two Toyota Hiace Buses, reported at the A Division Police Station where they informed the police officers of their mission Read Story | Discuss 6. NZ key member of FBI cyber specialists New Zealand has been revealed as a member of a specialist American led anti cyber crime group. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in a statement today that the newly formed Strategic Alliance Cyber Crime Working Group was one of its most promising initiatives to fight cyber crime. Read Story | Discuss Intellectual Property Rights 1. Court Finds Part of Copyright Act Unconstitutional A US District Court in the Southern District of California has found the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act to be unconstitutional. That act is what removes the sovereign immunity for infringement that state workers have in their official capacity, something many argued would jeopardize universities with liability for faculty infringement, not to mention other state agencies. Read Story | Discuss 2. Microsoft and Komoxo Agree to Patent Deal Microsoft Corp. and Beijing Komoxo Mobile Software Inc. today announced a patent licensing agreement on text-input technologies for mobile devices. The licensed patents allow Komoxo to integrate Microsoft’s statistical language modeling methods into its next-generation text-input engine for reduced keypad and touch-screen devices, and deliver new mobile innovations to consumers around the world. Read Story | Discuss 3. Apple files iTunes trademark covering new gadgets, services The European Trademark Office published Apple’s latest trademark titled iTunes under application 006838461. The main difference between Apple’s dual 2007 US filings and the filing made public today, is that Apple has dramatically expanded their trademark’s International Classification coverage from four to a whopping nineteen categories. Read Story | Discuss 4. Comcast proposes P2P 'bill of rights' As the FCC continues to investigate its choke hold on BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic, Comcast has proposed a "bill of rights and responsibilities" for P2P users and internet service providers. Read Story | Discuss 5. This DVD will self-destruct in 48 hours A German company has introduced a disposable DVD that can be viewed for 48 hours, then thrown away. The DVDs will sell for just €3.99 ($6.44 /£3.20). Read Story | Discuss Security & Privacy 1. Software that Spies on Mobile Phones used widely in Mumbai, India A new software which allows a person to spy on to other mobile phones and spy on text messages, contacts and even images is on its way, reports leading newspaper DNA. This special spy software even breaks the barriers of password protected phones and engulfs the data that is available. Read Story | Discuss 2. CA Law Requires Firms Disclose Security Breaches Starting July 1, a new California law will require all companies doing business in California to notify their California customers, partners or other business relationships when they suspect their non-encrypted information has been compromised and/or stolen. Read Story | Discuss 3. MCafee, inc. launches global s.p.a.m. experiment McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) today announced the launch of its global S.P.A.M. (Spammed Persistently All Month) Experiment. For 30 days, participants from around the world – ranging from homemakers, government executives, and students to retirees – will surf the Web, make online purchases and register for promotions. Participants have been provided with a clean laptop without spam protection and a new email address. Beginning today, they will blog about their experiences daily at www.mcafeespamexperiment.com. Read Story | Discuss 4. Bush Cyber Initiative Aims To Monitor, Restrict Access To Federal Network Details of George Bush's Cyber Initiative are beginning to trickle out. The Cyber Initiative was created in January to secure government against electronic attacks. Newsweek says that over the next seven years, Bush's Cyber Initiative will spend as much as $30 billion to create a new monitoring system for all federal networks, a combined project of the DHS, the NSA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Read Story | Discuss 5. New cyber-security report highlights three threats Google is not warning about Swartz' article highlights three new ways Google users are vulnerable to identity theft, fraud, spyware, and malware threats. "Cybercriminals are using a chink in Google's website to redirect unsuspecting PC users to sites containing malicious software. When someone does a Google search, they are redirected to what appears to be a legitimate website. The site, in fact, is tainted with malware. Google says it is fixing the problem." "...the latest of three computer worms wriggled into Google's social-networking service, Orkut, in February." "Scammers are sending personalized e-mail as meeting invitations in Google Calendar." Read Story | Discuss

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