Mumbai CCIC arrests Army officer for Chi...

Investigations started in Germany in September 2009, when German Police tracked the IP address to India in respect of some Child Pornography matter. And the Police alerted the Interpol, which through CBI, forwarded the matter to Mumbai Police. After completing the investigations, the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell raided the flat of the 42 year old lieutenant last week, who...

Indian National Sentenced to 81 Months i...

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, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg...

Symantec ranks India as 5th in cyber cri...

Symantec in its “Internet Security Threat” 2009 report has ranked India 5th in malicious activity, i.e. a climb of six places. India is the highest spam originating country in the world, contributing 4 per cent to the worldwide spam volumes, while the country ranks first in the Asian region. On the basis of web-based attacks, India has gone up from the rank of 13 in...

Cyber Crime of Phishing

‘Phishing’ is a form of Cyber Crime wherein criminals attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, credit card details, etc by pretending as a trustworthy entity like Banks, etc in an electronic communication, especially emails. The trend of Phishing has increased over the years, though decisions has been very rare. But the recent decision as...

Cyber Crime Annual Report 2009 released ...

The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), released the 2009 Annual Report about fraudulent activity on the Internet on 12 March 2010. Online crime complaints increased substantially once again last year, according to the report. The IC3 received a total of 336,655 complaints, a 22.3 percent increase from...

Email Password Security & Legal Iss...

A recent FIR registered with Delhi Police, points how a weak password can sometimes lead to loss of business profits. In the said matter… it is alleged by the complainant that the hacker has contaminated the complainant’s computer with viruses, business and personal emails have been hacked, downloaded all the critical business information and have attempted to contact their...