London: David Cameron government's plans to enact legislation to allow officials to monitor phone calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK have provoked a welter of protest amidst accusations of bringing in 'Big Brother'-style governance. The Home Office believes that such powers are necessary to deal with crime and terrorism. Opposition to the plans likely to be outlined in the Queen's Speech in May has come...
06:39 PM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: Facebook, Twitter might be flavour of the season, but email remains more popular than social media as a method of Internet communication for Indians, says a survey. According to global research firm Ipsos, 68 per cent of people across India, who are connected online, send and receive emails while about 60 per cent communicate via social networking sites. "Internet penetration in India has been very good in recent...
11:15 AM, Mar 30, 2012
pLos Angeles: A man pleaded guilty to hacking into the email accounts of such celebrities as Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis and Scarlett Johansson, whose nude photos eventually landed on the Internet. Christopher Chaney, 35, entered his plea in federal court to nine counts, including unauthorised access to a computer and wiretapping. He was immediately taken into custody. Sentencing was scheduled for July 23. Chaney was arrested in October as part...
05:20 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New York: Emails from Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard days show the dropout-turned-Facebook CEO as a young entrepreneur losing patience with a client's delayed payments. "I contracted out my services for money, and even though I seem to continually be providing services, I don't seem to be receiving money from you guys," he wrote on Sunday, January 25, 2004, according to court documents filed on Monday by Facebook's lawyers. The deal, writes...
10:56 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Police on Tuesday informed a court here that a sub-inspector arrested for allegedly sending a forged letter to the media has links with banned outfits. Police told the Thiruvananthapuram judicial magistrate court that they have stumbled upon crucial evidence that subinspector Biju Salim has links with banned outfits and hence they should be given his custody to crack the case. The court allowed police to keep Salim till...
02:46 PM, Mar 20, 2012
London: The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than 5 million emails from a US-based global security think tank, apparently obtained by hackers. WikiLeaks did not say how it had acquired access to the vast haul of internal and external correspondence of Strategic Forecasting Inc (Stratfor) of Austin, Texas. Hackers linked to the group Anonymous said at the beginning of 2012 that they had stolen the email correspondence...
11:28 AM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: Internet content providers Yahoo, Gmail and others would be asked to route all emails accessed in India through the country even if the mail account is registered outside the country. The move comes in the wake of instances where security agencies could not have a real-time access to some emails as they were registered outside the country but were opened in India. During a recent high-level meeting held...
07:54 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New York: Google, Facebook and other big tech companies are jointly designing a system for combating email scams known as phishing. Such scams try to trick people into giving away passwords and other personal information by sending emails that look as if they come from a legitimate bank, retailer or other business. When Bank of America customers see emails that appear to come from the bank, they might click on...
12:10 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala's Director General of Police Jacob Punnoose on Tuesday denied ever having snooped on emails of some people, including a former Muslim lawmaker, as reported in the media. Punnoose was reacting after Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy ordered an urgent inquiry into media reports that the Kerala Police Hi-tech Cell since November was snooping on emails of 189 people, all of whom were Muslims. The list included a former...
11:58 AM, Jan 18, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Leader of Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan on Tuesday described the Kerala government's act of snooping into email accounts as fascist. In a statement issued, Achuthanandan slammed Chief Minister Oommen Chandy for "following in the footsteps of the American administration and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi." "We wish to know from Chandy if former Rajya Sabha member P.V. Abdul Wahab and legislator Abdul Samad Samadhani, both belonging to the ruling front...
05:39 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Mumbai: Greed isn't always good. Haryana-based RC Mishra learnt this after paying a hefty price: Rs 51 lakh. The Joint General Manager of Ircon International Limited is the latest victim of what is widely known as the 'Nigerian email fraud'. Haryana police has now detained two conmen from Mumbai and Thane who had cheated the complainant. Recently, Mishra got an email claiming he had won the 'Microsoft Award' in an...
12:41 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Rio De Janeiro: Brazilian workers who find themselves answering work emails on their smartphones after the end of their shifts can qualify for overtime under a new law. The new legislation was approved by President Dilma Rousseff last month. It says that company emails to workers are equivalent to orders given directly to the employee. Labour attorneys told the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper this makes it possible for workers...
11:09 AM, Jan 13, 2012
New Delhi: US authorities are investigating allegations that an Indian government spy unit hacked into the emails of an official US commission that monitors economic and security relations between the United States and China, including cyber-security issues. The request for an investigation came after hackers posted on the Internet what purports to be an Indian military intelligence document on cyber-spying, which discusses plans to target the commission - apparently using...
03:27 PM, Jan 10, 2012
London: British police have found evidence that private investigators working for newspapers hacked into the email account of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown while he was finance minister, The Independent newspaper reported on Monday. Hundreds of other people may have also had their emails intercepted, perhaps as many as were caught up in the phone hacking scandal at News International's now defunct News of the World tabloid, the paper said....
05:37 PM, Jan 02, 2012
New York: Some 8 million people received emails from the New York Times on Thursday offering a special discount if they would reconsider their decision to cancel their subscriptions. The trouble is, the offer was supposed to go to only about 300 people who had decided to stop taking home delivery of the newspaper - it was erroneously sent by a New York Times employee to more than 8 million...
11:06 AM, Dec 29, 2011
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10:51 AM, Dec 28, 2011
Frankfurt: The backlash against twenty-four-hour connectivity has started. Carmaker Volkswagen has agreed to deactivate e-mails on German staff Blackberry devices out of office hours to give them a break. Under an agreement with labour representatives, staff at Europe's biggest automaker will receive e-mails via Blackberry from half an hour before they start work until half an hour after they finish, and will be in blackout-mode the rest of the time,...
12:24 PM, Dec 24, 2011
London: Imagine reading emails and text messages on your contact lenses which are linked to internet. It may sound a bit utopian, but scientists claim that your imagination could soon turn into a reality. In fact, the futuristic technology has taken a step nearer, thanks to an international team which claims to have developed a prototype lens that could potentially provide the wearer with hands-free information updates. The scientists from...
11:46 AM, Nov 22, 2011
New Delhi: As part of the design revamp of its gamut of services, Google has announced the release of the new look for its popular email service Gmail. In a post on the official Gmail blog, Jason Cornwell, user experience designer at Google, highlighted the new updates and improvements. Users can move to the new look by clicking on Switch to the new look in the bottom-right of Gmail. Google...
02:19 PM, Nov 02, 2011
Los Angeles: A Florida man was charged with hacking into celebrity email accounts in a computer invasion scheme that led to the posting of private and revealing information, including nude photos of actress Scarlett Johansson, on the Internet, federal authorities said Wednesday. Christopher Chaney, 35, of Jacksonville, was arrested without incident as part of a yearlong investigation of celebrity hacking that authorities dubbed "Operation Hackerazzi." There were more than 50...
01:33 PM, Oct 13, 2011
