Spam has emerged as the biggest nuisance over the Internet and with very few countries regulating against it... Spam is increasing with leaps and bounds. And the recent study shows that though USA has retained the top position with 13% of global spam but India has emerged as second, accounting for over seven per cent of global junk mails sent during the first quarter of 2010. Spam in India mostly contains of unwanted advertisement message and Phishing Emails.
With 6.8 per cent of global junk mails, Brazil placed third in the list, while South Korea ranked fourth by generating 4.8 per cent of junk messages sent around the world every day. Surprisingly, China, often blamed for cybercrime by other countries, has come in at 15th place with responsibility for relaying just 1.9 per cent of the world's spam, according to the study.
Even in terms of cities, Seoul is the biggest culprit followed by Hanoi, New Delhi, Bogota, Sao Paulo and Bangkok.
South Korea, Brazil, India and topper USA account for more than 30 percent of all the spam relayed by hacked computers around the globe.
Continent wise, Asia tops with 33.7 percent of global spam, followed by Europe's 31.2 per cent, North America's 16.9 per cent and 14.7 percent for Latin America.
1. India ranked 5th in world in cyber crime
Symantec, in its fifteenth edition of ‘Internet Security Threat’ report, pointed out that India’s surge in malicious activity has moved the country to the fifth position for overall malicious activity in 2009 from 11th position in 2008.
2. Indian panel formed to specify norms for networks to prevent hacking
India has formed a high-powered committee with members from the Intelligence Bureau, spy agency RAW, telecommunications department, home ministry and Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore), among others, to specify audit norms for all communication networks to prevent hacking.
3. Pune City high on cyber crime radar
While online frauds and cyber crime activities are gaining a foothold throughout the country, Pune has emerged as one of the top 10 Indian cities witnessing the highest number of online attacks and infected computers in the last one year.
4. MP Rudy becomes victim of cyber crime
BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy has become a fresh victim of cyber crime with an unidentified person creating his fake profile on a social networking site and posting comments on controversial issues like the IPL.
5. Rlys unearths refund ticket racket
Samastipur division of East Central Railway (ECR) has unearthed a rare kind of cyber crime which cost the railways several crores by way of fake cancellation of trains and refund of money against reserved tickets.
1. Indian National Sentenced in US Prison for Role in Online Brokerage Scam
An Indian national was sentenced today to 81 months in prison on conspiracy and aggravated identity theft charges arising from an international fraud scheme to “hack” into online brokerage accounts in the United States and use those accounts to manipulate stock prices.
2. Google faces Brazil fine for providing forum in which defamation could take plac
Google has been fined in Brazil for allowing a user of its Orkut social networking service to defame a priest. Google is partly responsible for the user's post, the court is reported to have said.
3. Viewing a site's jurisdiction statement did not indicate consent, says US court
A statement on a website which said that use of the site indicates consent to settle all disputes in a particular court is not enforceable, a US court has ruled. Viewing the statement did not indicate consent, it said.
4. FBI Warrant Sought Google Apps Content in Spam Case
Among the Information obtained from Google Docs was a spreadsheet showing that the men had spammed more than 3 million email addresses in a five-hour period, and a list of 8,000 Yahoo mail accounts allegedly obtained to send the spam. It is easier for law enforcement agencies to access data stored in the cloud than that stored on individuals' own computers.
5. Computer Hacker Sentenced For Stealing And Launder Money From Brokerage Accounts
ALEKSEY VOLYNSKIY was sentenced last month to 37 months in prison for hacking into victims’ brokerage accounts at Charles Schwab, laundering over $246,000, and sending a portion back to coconspirators in Russia. VOLYNSKIY also sold approximately 180 stolen credit card numbers to a cooperating witness and directed that they be fabricated into credit cards.
1. EBay shill bid scammer convicted
Paul Barrett, a minibus hire firm boss from Stanley, County Durham, has been convicted of bidding against items he was selling on eBay in order to drive up final prices.
2. Database builder faces web-scraping lawsuit
A US company faces a copyright, trespass and trade secrets lawsuit because it 'scraped' the website of a rival on behalf of a client. The case underlines the legal uncertainty surrounding the practice.
3. Google convictions in Italy based on legal error, says expert
The Italian court which sentenced three Google executives to a suspended jail term made a legal error, according to an Italian legal expert who has studied the judgment. Elvira Berlingieri told OUT-LAW that Google was likely to win any appeal.
4. High Court ruling serves as a warning against any moderation of user comments
A blog owner can avoid liability for user-generated content that appears on his site without being checked or moderated, the High Court has ruled. But fixing the spelling or grammar in users' posts could lose him that protection, it said.
5. Google image search results do not infringe copyright, says German court
Google does not infringe copyright when it displays thumbnail previews of pictures from other people's websites, the German Federal Supreme Court has ruled.
1. Child porn site operator 'exploited S.E. Asia boys'
A Kawasaki man arrested on suspicion of selling pornographic DVDs of boys through a Web site also apparently shot obscene videos and had sex with underage male prostitutes in Indonesia and the Philippines.
2. Chinese Company Must Pay Microsoft for Using Illegal Software
A Chinese court has ordered an insurance company there to pay Microsoft 2.2 million yuan (US $322,000) for using illegal copies of Microsoft software, including Windows XP and Microsoft Office.
3. Philippines ranks high as malware hotspot in AsiaPac
The Philippines ranked 10th overall in malicious activity on the Internet in the Asia-Pacific and Japan for 2009, accounting for 2 percent of such activity in the region, according to the Symantec Internet Security Report XV whose results were announced recently at a press briefing in Makati City.
4. UAE has lowest software piracy rate in GCC
An independent report developed by International Data Corporation (IDC) has outlined a 5-point strategy that the UAE Government can implement within the next four years to reduce piracy.
5. Faulty Routing Data From Chinese ISP Causes Problems Again
Bad routing data from an ISP called IDC China Telecommunication was re-transmitted by China Telecommunications, a state-owned entity, and then spread around the globe.
1. Wordpress Sites Targeted in Redirect Attack
Hundreds of bloggers who use Wordpress have reported that their sites have been hijacked to direct visitors to a webpage that attempts to install malware. Almost all of the Wordpress users affected by the apparent attack are using Network Solutions as their web hosting provider.
2. Bank of America ATM Malware Author Stole More Than US $300,000
Rodney Reed Caverly has pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized computer access for installing malware on Bank of America (BofA) ATMs that allowed them to dispense cash without generating records of the transactions.
3. Cyber Extortionists Attacks Turn to BitTorrent Users
Internet scam artists have identified a new vector of attack. Instead of bullying users into purchasing ineffective anti-virus software, attackers are scaring BitTorrent users into paying to avoid fines or even imprisonment for using the filesharing application.
4. Former NSA Official Pleads Not Guilty in Data Leak Case
Former National Security Agency (NSA) official Thomas Andrews Drake has pleaded not guilty to charges of willful retention of national defense information, obstruction of justice and making a false statement.
5. Irish court says Eircom disconnections do not breach privacy laws
Ireland's biggest ISP Eircom has been given the go-ahead to cut off customers accused of copyright infringement by Ireland's High Court. The practice does not breach data protection law, the Court said.
