New Delhi: The number of phones and email accounts being tapped in the country nearly doubled during the month of July, with central security agencies making fresh requests for monitoring 3,420 phone lines and 465 email accounts. A total of 4,350 phone lines and 501 email addresses were under surveillance and fresh orders were received from the Home Secretary recently for monitoring of an additional 3,420 telephones and 465 e-mails...
08:46 AM, Sep 19, 2011
Jammu: Security agencies have detained a suspected HuJI operative Hafiz Aamir for allegedly sending a terror email in the aftermath of the September 7 blast outside the Delhi High Court. Hafiz Aamir is understood to have told the investigators that an email claiming responsibility on behalf of the HuJI was sent on his directions, sources said on Thursday. Aamir, who has been detained in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district, is...
09:53 AM, Sep 15, 2011
New Delhi: An e-mail sent from a cyber cafe in Kishtwar town now holds the key to solving the Delhi High Court blast. Sources told CNN-IBN that the two class XI students who sent the e-mail claiming responsibility for the blast are actually a part of a core group of seven persons. Their interrogation also revealed that five others in the age group of 25-35 years were involved in the...
07:08 AM, Sep 15, 2011
New Delhi: It's been a week since the terror attack at Delhi High court but the investigating agencies have still not managed to find the real culprits. However, investigators have got new leads with Union Home Secretary RK Singh claiming some progress in the Delhi High Court blast investigations. Singh said that two students have been arrested from Jammu region and are being questioned for their role in sending the...
09:08 AM, Sep 14, 2011
New Delhi: Two days after terror struck at the heart of Delhi, investigating agencies are still groping in the dark for conclusive leads even as a spate of mails now hamper the probe. Gujarat has been put on a high alert after a third e-mail warned that Ahmedabad will be the next terror target. On Friday evening a fourth e-mail surfaced from a person named Chhotu Minani, claiming to be...
09:43 PM, Sep 09, 2011
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) sources on Friday told CNN-IBN that the e-mail supposedly sent by the Indian Mujahideen claiming responsibility for the Delhi blast has been traced to West Bengal even as a third e-mail surfaced warning of an attack in Ahmedabad. However, efforts are still underway to trace the IP address of the Indian Mujahideen e-mail. The third e-mail sent to Delhi Police was in codes...
12:09 PM, Sep 09, 2011
New Delhi: Even as the investigators are still looking for clues in the Delhi High Court blast case, another e-mail claiming that Wednesday's terror strike was carried out by the Indian Mujahideen has surfaced. The e-mail has been reportedly sent by an Indian Mujahideen operative even as five people, including four in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar and one in Uttar Pradesh, have been detained. It has also warned that the...
03:39 PM, Sep 08, 2011
New Delhi: A day after the deadly attack outside the Delhi High Court, investigators have traced the Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami email claiming responsibility for the blast to Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. Police sources have told CNN-IBN that the HUJI e-mail has been traced to Kishtwar in Jammu and the owner of the cyber cafe is being questioned. "We are investigating the email link from Kishtwar district in connection with...
07:59 AM, Sep 08, 2011
Alaska: The state of Alaska on Friday released more than 24,000 pages of former Governor Sarah Palin's emails, shedding some light on how the possible Republican US presidential contender conducted business. The printed emails to and from Palin, who abruptly quit as governor of the oil-rich state nearly two years ago, were made available to those willing to pay $725 for copies and hundreds of dollars more in delivery fees....
08:37 AM, Jun 11, 2011
Washington: The US government on Thursday was assessing whether security was compromised after Google Inc said hackers from central China tried to hack personal Gmail accounts used by senior officials. The Executive Office of the President, which includes the White House and related offices, blocks access to outside email services such as Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail on its networks within the complex. Other agencies also have firewalls to block...
09:23 AM, Jun 03, 2011
San Francisco: Yahoo Inc. is giving its popular email service a long-promised facelift in an attempt to make it more appealing to people who are increasingly using Facebook, Twitter, Google and other online alternatives to communicate. The changes announced Tuesday build upon a redesigned email format that Yahoo began testing seven months ago. The estimated 277 million users of Yahoo's free email service will be switched to the new version...
10:55 AM, May 24, 2011
Washington: Using intermediaries and inexpensive memory drives, Osama bin Laden managed to send emails while in hiding, without leaving a digital fingerprint for United States eavesdroppers to find. His system was painstaking and slow, but it worked, and it allowed him to become a prolific email writer despite not having Internet or phone lines running to his compound. His methods, described in new detail to The Associated Press by a...
04:55 PM, May 13, 2011
Washington: Using intermediaries and inexpensive computer discs, Osama bin Laden managed to send emails while in hiding, without leaving a digital fingerprint for United States eavesdroppers to find. His system was painstaking and slow, but it worked, and it allowed him to become a prolific email writer despite not having Internet or phone lines running to his compound. His methods, described in new detail to The Associated Press by a...
04:40 PM, May 13, 2011
Boston: Tens of millions of customers and employees of major banks, hotels and retailers are now at risk of "spear-phishing" attacks after hackers stole their email addresses in what may become one of the biggest data breaches ever, security experts warned. The massive breach, involving online marketer Epsilon, a unit of Alliance Data Systems Corp, looks like it will mainly put individuals at risk if they respond to camouflaged emails...
12:18 PM, Apr 05, 2011
London: JK Rowling stirred a publishing phenomenon with her "Harry Potter" books. Can she do it again on the ebook market? The best-selling author is considering making the fantasy books available electronically, her London-based agent said on Monday " meaning that Potter fans may soon be able to download the popular series about a boy wizard to their Kindle or iPad. "We are currently actively looking at all the various...
12:01 PM, Apr 05, 2011
London: A Briton sent an email to his football buddy about his ex-girlfriend: "Feel free to pursue, yes, she is HOT!". But, he accidentally copied her into the email exchange that has now gone viral. Harry Fildes sent the email to his football mate Sebastian Marsh that it was fine to pursue his hot ex-girlfriend Jenni Palmer, the Telegraph reported on Wednesday. He then accidentally copied it to Palmer, who...
03:15 PM, Mar 31, 2011
Hong Kong: Google Inc on Monday accused the Chinese government of making it difficult for Gmail users to access the service in the country, the latest development in a rocky relationship between the two. Google said any difficulty users in China may have faced in the past few weeks accessing its email service was likely to be the result of government blocks, a Google spokeswoman said in a statement. "There...
07:30 PM, Mar 21, 2011
New York: Google has restored e-mail service and messages to some of the users who had found their old e-mails deleted on Sunday. Google Inc. first posted a notice about the problem Sunday afternoon on a site where it informs users of service problems on applications such as e-mail. The company says the problem affected about 0.02 percent of Gmail users, or two of every 10,000. That's down from its...
01:08 PM, Mar 01, 2011
New Delhi: The government is in talks with cellular carriers over access to BlackBerry's encrypted email services after the Canadian company failed to meet a deadline to make the service available to security agencies. Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion (RIM) failed to fulfill Indian demands to monitor encrypted corporate email by a Januray 31 deadline. RIM had previously said it was confident India would not ban its services. Last...
04:16 PM, Feb 17, 2011
Toronto: IBM wants to dislodge Microsoft's desktop-bound business software by touting an update of its Lotus programs designed to harness the mobility and collaboration possible with cloud computing. The computing giant invited BlackBerry maker Research In Motion's co-Chief Executive Jim Balsillie to the stage of Lotusphere, an IBM conference in Orlando, on Monday to display IBM's newest wares on RIM's unreleased PlayBook tablet. Established tech giants and relative upstarts covet...
11:32 AM, Feb 01, 2011
