Hyderabad: A youth from Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh was arrested on Sunday for creating a fake Facebook account of a female student and posting her morphed pictures, the police said.
The youth, allegedly created a Facebook account of the girl and uploaded her morphed images along with obscene as well as false information, besides her contact number, the police said.
The victim lodged a complaint with police after which Chirala rural police arrested Santosh today. Further investigations are on.
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09:46 PM, May 19, 2013
Mumbai: Even as cases of financial fraud are dotting cyber space across the world, Indians seem more forthcoming in giving out their personal information for personalised services and simplification of finance management than their global counterparts, a study by Cisco has said. According to the Cisco report, 72 per cent of respondents from India said they would provide more personal information to simplify management of finances compared to 56 per...
11:23 AM, May 19, 2013
Boston: Two companies with major operations in India were the weak links that opened the door to a $45 million global cyber heist brought to light by US authorities this week. EnStage Inc, which operates from Bangalore, and ElectraCard Services, which is based in Pune, processed card payments for the two Middle Eastern banks that were hit in the theft, according to several people familiar with the situation. US prosecutors...
03:41 PM, May 12, 2013
Washington: The Pentagon said on Monday that China is using espionage to acquire technology to fuel its military modernization. The Pentagon for the first time accused the Chinese of trying to break into US defence computer networks, though China on Tuesday firmly desmised the allegations. In its 83-page annual report to Congress on Chinese military developments, the Pentagon also cited progress in Beijing's effort to develop advanced-technology stealth aircraft and...
08:25 PM, May 07, 2013
Dhaka: Members of a hardline Muslim group in Bangladesh on Saturday held rally across Dhaka demanding enactment of anti-blasphemy laws to punish people who insult Islam. The massive rally in Dhaka took place amid heightened security. The protestors targeted bloggers who have held street protests demanding execution for convicted war criminals. In a separate incident, a ruling party supporter has been killed and 15 others injured in the clashes between...
05:17 PM, Apr 07, 2013
In August, 2012 a series of bulk SMSes, MMSes started spreading like a virus across mobile phones in India targeting people from a North-Eastern states who stayed and worked away from their homes across India. As these text messages spread, the enemy achieved its objective creating panic. In just three days, 30,000 people fled from several cities clinging to crowded trains, returning to their home state. A mass exodus triggered ...
01:58 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Three atheist bloggers in Bangladesh were on Tuesday arrested here on charges of defaming Islam, as the government set up the country's first cyber crime tribunal to prevent exploitation of religion on the Internet. The crackdown as well as the announcement came two days after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pledged stern action against people found guilty of defaming Islam using the Internet. ...
09:00 AM, Apr 03, 2013
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday pledged stern action against people found guilty of defaming Islam using the internet as right-wing Islamic parties threatened to wage an intensified street campaign against "atheist bloggers". "You (Islamic parties) do not need to go for any movement. As a Muslim, I have the responsibility to take action," Hasina said at a party meeting of her ruling Awami League, this evening. ...
02:30 AM, Apr 01, 2013
A hacking attack on the servers of South Korean broadcasters and banks originated from an IP address based in China, officials in Seoul said on Thursday, raising suspicions the intrusion came from North Korea. ...
10:30 AM, Mar 21, 2013
A person was nabbed on Friday for allegedly uploading morphed obscene photos and videos of a young woman on several websites including Facebook after she refused his marriage proposal, police said. ...
06:30 AM, Mar 16, 2013
In a written answer, Minister of State for Home Affairs RPN Singh said, 81 people were arrested for cyber crimes, of which 42 were arrested under the Information Technology (IT) Act and 39 under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) between 2009 and 2011. ...
06:59 PM, Mar 05, 2013
A secretive Chinese military unit, with government backing, is engaged in "systematic" cyber espionage and data theft against organisations around the world from Shanghai, an American Internet security firm has claimed. "Our research and observations indicate that the Communist Party of China (CPC) is tasking the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) to commit systematic cyber espionage and data theft against organisations around the world," alleged the report 'APT1: Exposing One...
02:00 PM, Feb 19, 2013
Leader of the Congress party on Wednesday lodged a complaint with the police that a morphed photograph of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has been uploaded on a social networking website. ...
10:57 PM, Feb 13, 2013
Usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted/salted versions of passwords were compromised. ...
06:59 AM, Feb 02, 2013
The internet's a brave new world in so many ways-driven by the young invigorating the old. About 150 million Indians are on the web now. Earlier, to express ideas publicly, you had to go through a newspaper, magazine, TV or a radio station before. The guardians of media regulated how such ideas were expressed, and published your ideas if you were important enough, if you followed the outlet's editorial line,...
12:10 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Mumbai: The cyber crime cell of the Mumbai Crime Branch has blocked the fake Facebook accounts of MNS chief Raj Thackeray's children. Thackeray's children had filed a complaint earlier this week, claiming that neither of them were personally on Facebook or on Twitter. Police said that they are yet to trace the Internet Protocol address to ascertain who made the fake accounts. Raj's children had requested people to not fall...
09:20 AM, Dec 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Centre, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Delhi and Puducherry governments over the petition filed by a Delhi University student, Shreya Singhal, challenging the Information Technology Act. The court has asked Maharashtra to explain arrest of the two Palghar girls over Facebook comments on late Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray. The Attorney General, in his response to the petition, told the...
11:46 AM, Nov 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Attorney General is expected to give his opinion to the Supreme Court on Friday on a petition challenging the controversial Section 66(A) of the Information Technology Act. This, even as politicians and cyber experts say the section should be re-written. The petition challenging the controversial Section 66(A) was filed by a Delhi University student. Even as the debate over Section 66(A) continues, Mumbai's Joint Police Commissioner, Himanshu...
07:48 AM, Nov 30, 2012
New Delhi: A new cyber jurisprudence, having no political boundaries, needs to be evolved to deal with Internet crime, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said on Tuesday. Terming the Internet governance as oxymoron, he also said Internet cannot co-exist with the concept of governance. "Internet Governance is an oxymoron. Internet, by its very nature, cannot coexist with the concept of 'governance', which relates to a system designed for dealing with the...
08:23 PM, Nov 06, 2012
Mumbai: Software security services provider Norton on Wednesday said consumer cyber crime has cost the country around Rs 42,000 crore in the past 12 months, impacting 42 million people. Releasing the findings of its annual cyber crime report, it is estimated that over 42 million people fell victim to cyber crime in the past 12 months in the country, incurring around $8 billion in direct financial losses. In terms of...
08:23 AM, Sep 13, 2012
