Cyber Attacks from Russia By Advocate Ankur Raheja * With the rapid increase in Cyber Crime, the time has come to take the fight to the places that harbor cyber criminals. On the top of every security expert's list is Russia and China. The new Trojan is being injected by Cyber Criminals of these countries, especially Russia, into the websites that further infect machines visiting those websites. Trojan delivers the malware through an iframe code, which takes advantage of vulnerabilities of the coding or folder permissions, with the aim to steal away sensitive data. Similar thing happened in December 2007, where in Botnet-controlled Trojan robbed online banking customers. The US government has been ineffective at compelling Russia or any other coutry to do something about the respective problems. Security experts may need to force the issue at the gateway, by logging into the routers and blocking countries known to harbor these threats. But blocking a single country alone is a huge task, as that means 2000 - 3000 rules through which you will have to make every packet pass. Though at an individual level, especially the webmasters, one can block some specific IP addresses of these countries like Russia and China. Please visit here for the selected list of IP addresses. * Mr Ankur Raheja, MCA ACS LLB OCA B.Com(Hons) CyLaws,     is an advocate practicing in Delhi Courts in the fields of Cyber & Consumer Law.    .ASIA Domain Names .ASIA Domain Name now at 50% discount* Now you can book .ASIA Domain Names for Rs 450/yr as against regular price of Rs 900/yr. Discount available for registration upto 10 years. Offer valid till 25 November 2008. Exclusive Offer You can also rent Domain Name www.cyberlaw.asia and www.cyberlaws.asia Contact us for more details * conditions apply

India 1. Noida Police arrest five hackers for net banking fraud After a Noida businessman reported the loss of Rs 1.6 crore from his bank account, police have cracked a ring of criminal hackers who exploited several common loopholes in the internet banking system. Read Story | Discuss 2. Chandigarh girl arrested for making extortions through web A person posed hereself to be girl named Shelly, chatted with the complainant through Yahoo Messenger around October 1, 2008. At first the chatting was normal and the complainant exchanged his personal information with the person sitting remote on internet, but later the person (a lady) who called herself Shelly started threatening the victim on mobile... Read Story | Discuss 3. Conman offers bank loan, siphons off Rs 69,000 from account An imposter, claiming to be an employee of ICICI bank, got all the personal, professional and bank account details of Vijaybharati, under the pretext of fulfilling procedural formalities for a loan application she had requested to. An unsuspecting Vijaybharati gave all the details, just to discover later that someone had been using her account to siphon off money and her account had been overdrawn. Read Story | Discuss 4. Cops banking on scientific evidence to nail terrorists The crime branch is now banking on scientific evidence, including recoveries made from the arrested Indian Mujahideen suspects, to nail them in court. Read Story | Discuss 5. Credit card fraudster busted A nationwide credit card fraud has been busted by Ahmedabad Crime Branch by nabbing one 26-year old Manish Kakadia. According to police, the flashy youth began as a direct selling agent for credit cards and collected data from the forms that he filled for his clients. Read Story | Discuss 6. Techie held for email threat to Prez A 23-year old computer engineer working with leading IT major Infosys Technologies was detained in Chennai late on Wednesday night for allegedly sending a threatening e-mail to President Pratibha Patil. The suspect Sriram worked in the Infosys office in Mahindra City, on the outskirts of Chennai. Read Story | Discuss USA 1. FBI arrests man on cyber extortion charge An Indianapolis man is charged with trying to extort $208,000 by threatening to release 900,000 policy holders' healthcare information, the FBI said. Read Story | Discuss 2. Google sued for allowing typo-squatting Edelman and other lawyers have filed a class action lawsuit representing domain owners who claim the Google Adsense for Domains (AFD) program is assisting in violating trademarks. A hearing is scheduled for as early as next month. Read Story | Discuss 3. FBI accuses 24 countries of cyber crime attempts against US The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has raised concerns over the growing cyber crimes in US that cost tens of millions of dollars and also posing as a serious threat to US security. The FBI cyber division pointed out activities like computer spying and personal information theft as something that needs immediate measures to be curbed. Read Story | Discuss 4. Bush signs identity theft Bill into law President Bush signed into law a Bill that seeks to make it easier for prosecutors to go after cyber-thieves, while ensuring that identity theft victims are compensated for their time and trouble when convicted identity thieves are forced to cough up ill-gotten gains. Read Story | Discuss 5. New law requires computer techs to report child porn Computer technicians will have to report to local police if they find child pornography on a customer’s computer under a new law signed today by Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The child pornography provision amends a current law that already requires photo processors to report potentially criminal images. Read Story | Discuss 6. Law would deter illegal prescription drugs online Congress has passed a new law designed to keep cyber criminals from illegally selling prescription drugs. Prescription drug abuse is a growing problem locally, according to Utah County Substance Abuse Services Manager. Read Story | Discuss Europe 1. German court says IP addresses in server logs are not personal data A German court has ruled that website operators are allowed to store the internet protocol (IP) addresses of their visitors without violating data protection legislation. Without additional information, IP addresses do not count as personal data, it said. Read Story | Discuss 2. Italy: Court Deems Pirate Bay Block to be Illegal This August The Pirate Bay was “censored” in Italy following a decree from a public prosecutor. The Pirate Bay appealed the block and eventually won the court case. Read Story | Discuss 3. Council Of Europe Launches Guidelines for Privacy, Security, etc The Council of Europe today launched, in close cooperation with European online game designers and publishers and with Internet service providers, two sets of guidelines which aim to encourage respect and promote privacy, security and freedom of expression. Read Story | Discuss 4. Man who killed wife over Facebook posting jailed for life Wayne Forrester attacked his wife with kitchen knife and meat cleaver after she changed her Facebook profile to 'single'. Read Story | Discuss 5. Estonia’s Cyber Security Policy A year-and-a-half after the coordinated denial-of-service attacks against its government and commercial computer systems, Estonia has released a national cyber security strategy that includes details about the attacks and offers recommendations for preventing attacks in the future and for a global stance toward cyber security. The report identifies four “policy fronts"... Read Story | Discuss 6. European Commission overhauls online shopping laws The European Commission wants to create an over-arching consumer protection law which it claims will cut costs and red tape for internet retailers. The proposed Consumer Rights Directive would replace four existing EU Directives. Read Story | Discuss Asia 1. Fraud Ring Funnels Data From Cards to Pakistan European law-enforcement officials uncovered a highly sophisticated credit-card fraud ring that funnels account data to Pakistan from hundreds of grocery-store card machines across Europe, according to U.S. intelligence officials and other people familiar with the case. Read Story | Discuss 2. Angry Chinese netizens slam China's online censorship According to reports, Beijing City has implemented a new measure to take a step further to censor local netizens, or Internet users. The new regulations of online censorship stipulates that prior to logging on the Internet for the first time, netizens are required to register, the process of which includes having identity photos taken and identity cards scanned. Read Story | Discuss 3. South Korea links Web slander to celebrity suicides Choi Jin Sil, a movie star who shed maudlin tears on screen but fought like a tigress in a messy real-life divorce from her baseball-player husband, was the closest thing South Korea had to a national sweetheart. Read Story | Discuss 4. Pak: Crackdown on ‘hoax callers’ on the cards The FIA and the CIA, in collaboration with other intelligence agencies, are set to launch a crackdown against ‘hoax callers’. The operation would be launched in major cities, including Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Read Story | Discuss 5. Japan: Woman arrested over 'virtual' murder A JAPANESE piano teacher has been arrested on suspicion of killing her "virtual husband" after becoming enraged that he suddenly divorced her in an online game. Read Story | Discuss 6. Korea: Ruling Party Seeks Anti-Cyber Abuse Law In the wake of the shocking suicide of leading actress Choi Jin-shil, the ruling Grand National Party is moving to adopt a law named after her to punish those who spread malicious rumors online. Read Story | Discuss Australia & Africa 1. Oz watchdogs howl over 'Cyber-Safety' net filter It has been revealed that Nigerian banks lose over N7.3 billion annually to cybercrime related activities, even as available data estimates that the global economy loses more than $200 billion annually in direct and related damages to cybercrime and threatens world peace and security. Read Story | Discuss 2. Cyber-victimisation in Australia Over the last decade Australians have embraced new information and communication technologies. The majority of Australians now have access to computers and the Internet. By the beginning of 2007 there were 5.67 million households in Australia with home Internet access, with many more individuals accessing the Internet through their work or studies. Read Story | Discuss 3. Microsoft Combats Cybercrime in Nigeria Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN) and Microsoft have partnered to educate the country's youth on cybercrime and to provide opportunities for them to use their computer skills positively. Read Story | Discuss 4. Uganda in the process of formulating Cyber Laws Uganda's draft electronic laws have been approved by Cabinet and are set to be debated before they are passed into law by Parliament. Read Story | Discuss 5. An Egyptian blogger is out of jail provided that he stop blogging After being in jail for more than 2 months, the Egyptian blogger Mohamed Refaat was set free. Mohamed told Add-Dostour daily newspaper that the state security officers insisted that he will not go out of his detention custody till he sign a paper saying he will never update his blog neither heis Facebook account , nevertheless dealing with humanitarian NGOs or journalists. Read Story | Discuss Security & Privacy 1. UK Government will spy on every call and e-mail Ministers are considering spending up to £12 billion on a database to monitor and store the internet browsing habits, e-mail and telephone records of everyone in Britain. Read Story | Discuss 2. US teen admits to 'Anonymous' DDoS attack on Scientology A New Jersey man has admitted he participated in January's high-profile cyber attack on the Church of Scientology that took its website offline and caused as much as $70,000 worth of damage. Read Story | Discuss 3. Cyber hacker sent to jail An American hacker who helped Whitianga teenager Owen Thor Walker mount his spectacular cyber-attack has been given a much tougher sentence. A US District Court judge in Philadelphia has sentenced 22-year-old Ryan Goldstein to three months in prison, and six months under house arrest. Read Story | Discuss 4. Satyam refutes reports on World Bank bar Software major Satyam Computer Services has reportedly been banned from doing any off-shore work with the World Bank after forensic experts and bank investigators discovered that spy software was covertly installed on workstations inside the bank's Washington headquarters, allegedly by one or more contractors from Satyam Computer Services. Read Story | Discuss 5. Top 10 Biggest Security Threats Of The Future Who knew there were so many ways to become a victim of cyber crime? No doubt, the security landscape has significantly changed as financially motivated criminals create malware, infiltrate systems and steal valuable data and assets. But as security threats grow in size, scope and sophistication, so do the opportunities for channel partners to help businesses secure their networks and reduce the risk of attack. In Everything Channel's State of Technology: Security survey, hundreds of channel partners estimated some of the biggest threats we might see on the horizon through 2009. Read Story | Discuss 6. World Bank Under Cyber Siege in 'Unprecedented Crisis' The World Bank Group's computer network — one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the economies of every nation — has been raided repeatedly by outsiders for more than a year, FOX News has learned. Read Story | Discuss

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