Dubai: The website of Qatar-based satellite news network Al Jazeera was apparently hacked on Tuesday by Syrian government loyalists for what they said was the television channel's support for the "armed terrorist groups and spreading lies and fabricated news". A Syrian flag and statement denouncing Al Jazeera's "positions against the Syrian people and government" were posted on the Arabic site of the channel in response to its coverage of the...
01:39 AM, Sep 05, 2012
Hyderabad: A 22-year-old B Tech student from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi was arrested in Hyderabad by the cyber crime wing of the CID for allegedly posting obscene photographs of a girl from IIT-Kanpur on a public blog. The cyber police seized a mobile phone and a computer from the accused, Surender. The superintendent of police, cyber crime, U Rammohan Rao said they arrested Surender by tracking the Internet...
09:28 AM, Jul 08, 2012
Chennai: The next time you upload any sensitive information in your computer or smart phone, be extra careful. Cyber spooks are on the prowl to outsmart your smart phone and steal your data. And, going by statistics, the number of such crimes have nearly doubled in the country every passing year. Quite on the contrary, the incidence of such online crimes in Tamil Nadu seem to be throwing up a...
11:59 AM, Jul 05, 2012
New Delhi: Cyber criminals may have attempted to siphon off anywhere between 60 million euros and 2 billion euros in fraudulent transfers from at least 60 banks globally, a McAfee and Guardian Analytics study said. The study highlighted a highly sophisticated, multi-tiered, global financial fraud ring that is comprised of at least a dozen groups use active and passive automated transfer systems to steal high value amounts from high balance...
10:00 PM, Jun 26, 2012
New Delhi: Maharashtra and Karnataka topped the list of cyber crimes registered in 2010 with 246 cases and 176 cases respectively, Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal said. "With the increase in the proliferation of Information Technology and related services, there is a rise in number of cyber crimes and cyber security incidents. The trend in increase in cyber incidents is similar to that worldwide," Sibal had said in a...
11:10 AM, Apr 29, 2012
New Delhi: A controversial CD allegedly featuring Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi's has him livid. Despite a court injunction, the video went viral on the internet. Some are worried the incident will spark off a fresh wave of restrictions on the web. If you've shared Abhishek Manu Singhvi's leaked video with friends online, you could go to jail, say cyber experts. The video not only invades Singhvi's privacy, its content...
11:59 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Mumbai: The Union Home Ministry would like to work with the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) in the area of cyber crime, which is growing very fast, Home Minister P Chidambaram today said here. He gave away NASSCOM Global Leadership Awards at a function here this evening. "In 2009, there were 2,866 reported incidents of cyber crime in India. The US-based Internet Crime Control Centre has said...
11:12 AM, Feb 15, 2012
Mumbai: The Union Home Ministry would like to work with the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) in the area of cyber crime, which is growing very fast, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said. He gave away NASSCOM Global Leadership Awards at a function on Tuesday evening. "In 2009, there were 2,866 reported incidents of cyber crime in India. The US-based Internet Crime Control Centre has said...
12:30 AM, Feb 15, 2012
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh police have arrested a man for allegedly opening a fake Facebook account of his former woman colleague and publishing obscene pictures. T Satish, an engineer working with an MNC in Bangalore, was arrested on Thursday and officials of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) seized a laptop and a hard-disk from his possession, used for uploading allegedly obscene images of the victim, Cyber Crime SP U Rammohan...
07:49 PM, Feb 04, 2012
Moscow: Moscow has accused Washington of unlawfully extraditing a Russian national from Switzerland, the Russian foreign ministry spokesman said. Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday that Russian national Vladimir Zdorovenin, accused of financial cyber crimes, faces up to 142 years in prison in the US, where he was extradited from Switzerland earlier this week. "Unfortunately, this is not the first time when US special services organise the detention of our nationals...
05:10 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Jerusalem: Computer hackers published details of thousands of active Israeli credit cards after breaking into Israeli websites, the chief executive of Israel's largest card company said Tuesday. Dov Kotler, CEO of Isracard, a unit of Bank Hapoalim, said in a statement that a file containing 400,000 Israeli credit card numbers had appeared on the Internet but the company found that most were incorrect or invalid. Israeli media reports said a...
04:54 PM, Jan 03, 2012
BANGALORE:Not long after it became the suicide capital of the country, Bangalore is surging ahead to claim another tittle as the cyber crime capital of the nation. Though the city stands at the top five position for cyber crime, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2010 statistics, fraudsters are going all out pursuing virtual prey, especially in banking sector. As banks are increasing online presence, customers have become...
10:06 AM, Nov 04, 2011
Washington: US intelligence officials accused China and Russia on Thursday of systematically stealing American high-tech data for their own national economic gain. It was the most forceful and detailed public airing of US allegations after years of private complaints. US officials and cybersecurity experts said the US must openly confront China and Russia in a broad diplomatic push to combat cyberattacks that are on the rise and represent a "persistent...
09:29 AM, Nov 04, 2011
New Delhi: In what is seen as a problem that could affect the aa aadmi, estimates show that Rs 8.2 crore is lost annually in India due to credit card fraud. From Kumar Mangalam Birla to the aam aadmi, there have been all sorts of victims. Ram Shanker Shukla from Lucknow got the biggest surprise when he recieved SMS alerts saying Rs 20,000 were deducted from his bank account and...
09:55 AM, Oct 10, 2011
New Delhi: The US has said that it would take up the issue of pending requests for information from India regarding cyber cases with various departments in that country. New Delhi has also sought appropriate technology to deal with cyber security issues. According to minutes of a meeting on US-India dialogue on Cyber Security prepared recently, the Indian delegation was led by Deputy National Security Advisor Vijay Latha Reddy. It...
07:22 PM, Oct 02, 2011
Tokyo: Japan told its biggest weapons supplier, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, to investigate a cyber attack on its computers on Tuesday, warning it may have breached contracts to supply billions of dollars of equipment by keeping quiet about the online assault. Under the terms of an agreement the government imposes on all contractors, companies are obliged to inform it promptly of any breach of sensitive or classified information, a defence official...
10:10 AM, Sep 21, 2011
Little Rock: The group known as Anonymous said on Saturday it hacked into some 70 mostly rural law enforcement websites in the United States, a data breach that at least one local police chief said leaked sensitive information about an ongoing investigation. The loose-knit international hacking collective posted a cache of data to the Internet early Saturday, including emails stolen from officers, tips which appeared to come from members of...
09:13 AM, Aug 07, 2011
New York: The recent spate of cyber attacks have raised questions about the security of government and corporate computer systems, and the ability of law enforcement to track down hackers. Here's a breakdown of the different types of cyber assaults, from "hactivists" to serious criminals. DISSIDENT HACKERS SEEKING MAXIMUM PUBLICITY The Lulz Security and Anonymous groups have broken into computer servers to steal data that they publish on the Internet...
12:26 PM, Jun 23, 2011
Hong Kong: Hackers stole account information of more than 360,000 of Citigroup Inc.'s U.S. credit card customers in a recent data breach, the bank said on Wednesday, almost double the number initially thought. Citi said last week that about 1 percent of its credit card customers had account information hacked online but did not say exactly how many. The actual number of customers affected was thought to be about 200,000,...
12:41 PM, Jun 16, 2011
Singapore: South Korea said on Tuesday it was drawing up a cyber security master plan after a wave of hacking attacks against global agencies and companies but some other Asian governments appeared to have no blueprint for tackling the threat. Indonesia, a rapidly growing G20 country, warned that hackers could cause serious damage to its institutions. Internet industry bodies and security experts in Asia said the borderless nature of the...
10:54 PM, Jun 14, 2011
