To subscribe to the newsletter, please leave a message here with the word "Subscribe" in message body! IT Act Amendments expected to be implemented in October The government is likely to finalise in a month the rules of the IT (Amendment) Act, which deals with issues like cyber crime and data interception. Department of Information Technology (DIT) Secretary R Chandrashekhar told reporters - "We have already put up draft rules of the IT (Amendment) Act on the website and have also received comments... We are trying to finalise the rules within a month". The following amendments were passed by parliament in December 2008: transmitting sexually explicit materials in electronic form, video voyeurism, breach of confidentiality, leakage of data by intermediary and e-commerce frauds. dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource, identity theft, cheating by impersonation using computer resource. indulging in cyber terrorism with the intent of threatening the unity, integrity, security or sovereignty of the country or striking terror in the people. gives the government endless power to intercept or monitor any information through any computer resource, thereby violating individual's right to privacy. provides for functions of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, which has already been actively contributing to the Information Security for the last few years visit: www.cert-in.org.in Read Article

India 1. IIT engineer is online sex stalker In perhaps the first such case involving an Indian in the US, police in Pennsylvania have arrested an Indian engineer, an IIT graduate, on charges of using the internet for soliciting sex with a minor girl. Read Story | Discuss 2. Bazee.com Case - Supreme Court accepts Avinash Bajaj's plea The Supreme Court admitted petitions of auction portal eBay India Pvt Ltd and its chief Avinash Bajaj seeking quashing of the criminal proceedings initiated against them for allegedly permitting the sale of an controversial MMS clip. Read Story | Discuss 3. Cyber crime tribunal in red tape mesh Over two years after the Cyber Regulations Appellate Tribunal (CRAT) — the maiden forum in the country to exclusively try cyber cases — became functional, it recently got a new address and a well-equipped courtroom. Read Story | Discuss 4. Boss hacked into my email a/c: AI worker An Air India employee has lodged a complaint with the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) against one of its directors for hacking into his private e-mail account and later asking him to explain about his chat discussions. Read Story | Discuss 5. Judge not convinced with cyber crime cell's probe Additional sessions judge ML Tahaliyani questioned the means used by a cyber crime cell officer of Mumbai police to trace the 10 internet protocol (IP) addresses allegedly used during the 26/11 attack. Read Story | Discuss USA 1. Google's 'neutral' ad tool escapes fraud liability, says US court Google was not liable for the content of adverts that appeared on its search pages even though it made suggestions about what terms an advertiser should associate with, a US court has said. Read Story | Discuss 2. Unmasked blogger Rosemary Port to sue Google for $15m Google is to be sued for $15 million (£9 million) by an anonymous blogger who was unmasked by the internet search company. Read Story | Discuss 3. Boston student fined thousands for Napstering A Boston University student has been found guilty of breaking copyright laws by downloading and uploading songs using Napster and Kazaa. Read Story | Discuss 4. Alleged International Hacker Indicated for massive attack Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, Fla., was indicted today for conspiring to hack into computer networks supporting major American retail and financial organizations, and stealing data relating to more than 130 million credit and debit cards. Read Story | Discuss 5. Amazon sued for sending 1984 down Orwellian memory hole A seventeen-year-old high school senior has sued Amazon for vanishing George Orwell's 1984 from his Kindle ebook reader - and removing his personal annotations in the process. Read Story | Discuss Europe 1. Emails and phone calls did not establish a contract, rules Court of Appeal A series of emails and phone calls were not sufficient to establish a contract, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Read Story | Discuss 2. Two convicted for refusal to decrypt data Two people have been successfully prosecuted for refusing to provide authorities with their encryption keys, resulting in landmark convictions that may have carried jail sentences of up to five years. Read Story | Discuss 3. UK Pirates Face Disconnection, ISPs Object The latest turn of events with the Digital Britain report isn’t encouraging. Lord Mandelson has reportedly prodded through a proposal to disconnect alleged file sharers, without judicial process, and without waiting for OFCOM to see if such a measure is even needed. Read Story | Discuss 4. Police chiefs publish first UK e-crime strategy The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) has for the first time published a strategy outlining its approach to tackling e-crime. The wide-ranging strategy lays out in detail plans for improving all law-enforcement agencies capability for tackling cyber crime. Read Story | Discuss 5. Coppers make fake football sites pay penalty The Metropolitan Police's e-crime unit has taken out about 100 websites which claimed to be selling tickets for Premier League football matches. In fact, fans got either fake tickets or nothing at all. Read Story | Discuss Asia-Pacafic 1. China Internet addict beaten to death in rehab: Reports A teenager was allegedly beaten to death by trainers at a rehabilitation camp in southern China where his parents had sent him to cure his Internet addiction, reports said. Read Story | Discuss 2. Japan's cybercrime cases hit record high in 2008: survey Japan's cybercrime cases jumped by 15.5 percent year-on-year to 6,321 in 2008, hitting a record high since comparable data became available in 2000, said a survey released by the National Police Agency (NPA) on Thursday. Read Story | Discuss 3. Blogger who was target of Twitter and Facebook attacks blames Russia Russian hackers are believed to have been behind a “single, massively coordinated attack” on some of the world’s leading websites last week — all in an effort to silence a pro-Georgian blogger. Read Story | Discuss 4. NZ serious about fighting cyber crime New Zealand is sending a strong signal that it is serious about combating cyber crime, Police Minister Judith Collins said at the 25th anniversary celebration of the Police Electronic Crime Lab (ECL) today. Read Story | Discuss 5. Aussie firewall nears death The Australian Senate Opposition leader Nick Minchin has joined the growing chorus of voices against Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's plans for mandatory ISP-level filtering. Read Story | Discuss Security & Privacy 1. Facebook promises to clarify privacy policy and allow more user control Facebook will make changes to its privacy policies and practices in a move it says will help users to understand why it collects personal information and to control its use. Read Story | Discuss 2. Swiss privacy watchdog demands withdrawal of Swiss Street View The Swiss privacy watchdog has told Google to take down its Street View service because it violates Swiss privacy law. Google has said it is 'surprised' at the request. Read Story | Discuss 3. YouTube clarifies ban on privacy invasions, harassment and threats YouTube has clarified the conditions under which it would remove videos that invade people's privacy or harass, impersonate or threaten them. Read Story | Discuss 4. ISPs scorn government net snoop plan The government's plans to massively increase surveillance of the internet have come under fire again, this time from the ISPs it wants to deputise as its snoopers. Read Story | Discuss 5. Nigerian Cyber Criminals Target Smartphone Users Now Have you ever dreamt of spying like a secret agent in an action movie? With gadgets like cameras, voice recorders and memory devices dropping to Size 0, it is possible, and spammers are trying to convince you exactly this. Read Story | Discuss

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