Mumbai: A nude photo of his wife in his cousin's mobile phone told him enough to gather his friends, orchestrate a plot involving Holi, bhang and consequent inebriation, and bludgeon his cousin to death, before dumping his body in the murky waters of the Malwani creek. On Thursday, three young men were arrested on charges of murdering a 21-year-old man and dumping his body in the creek. The case came...
08:29 PM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: Global security software giant Symantec in an independent research has found out a range of 96 applications on the Google Play store that are stealing personal and confidential information of users in Japan. Although these applications have been found to be in use in Japan, a similar scenario might also be working in other parts of the world as applications are sometimes not limited to just one country....
12:47 PM, Apr 23, 2012
San Francisco: The cybersecurity community raked Apple Inc over the coals on Wednesday, saying the company had dragged its heels on eradicating malware that experts say may have infected up to 600,000 Macintosh computers and can be used to ferret out sensitive user information. The consumer electronics company said it was working on finding and ridding "Flashback" malware that exploits a flaw in Oracle Corp's Java software. Apple has issued...
01:39 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: The jewellers' strike enters the 21st day on Friday and there's still no sign of a solution. However, hoping to find one soon, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will be meeting with members of the jeweller community on Friday. Pranab met a few of them on Thursday as well, along with RJD Chief Lalu Prasad. The jewellers across the country are demanding a complete rollback of excise duty on...
06:42 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Mumbai: In an effort to break the deadlock over the recent hike in duties affecting the gems and jewelery industry, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will meet industry representatives in New Delhi on Friday, an official said on Thursday. "The meeting has been called to discuss the issue of rollback of excise duties, TCS and customs duties levied in the latest union budget. We shall make all efforts to convince...
01:08 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Reuters: Security researchers said they found a vulnerability in the Google Inc mobile payments platform which is currently available in phones sold by Sprint Nextel Corp. Mobile payment services that allow consumers to pay by waving their phone at a check-out terminal, instead of using a credit card, have long been available in Japan and some other countries but are only just emerging in the United States. Isis, a venture...
10:19 AM, Feb 11, 2012
San Francisco: Google Inc has been quietly policing its online store for months now in an acknowledgement of malware's growing threat to its increasingly popular Android mobile software. The new sheriff in town is Bouncer: a security service Google put in place to scan new apps as developers load them onto Market, its applications store. Bouncer sweeps apps for potentially malicious behaviour and also analyses new developer accounts to prevent...
10:55 AM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delhi: Indian computer security analysts have detected and alerted internet users against "malicious spam mails" in the name of the dead North Korean leader Kim Jong-II leading to hacking and crashing of vulnerable e-mails. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), country's national agency to respond to computer security incidents, has found the malware virus streaming into the Indian cyberspace. "It has been observed that a spam campaign in...
11:55 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Idaho Falls: Behind the doors of a nondescript red brick and gray building of the Idaho National Laboratory is the malware laboratory where US government cyber experts analysed the Stuxnet computer virus. The malicious software targets widely used industrial control systems built by German firm Siemens. Cyber experts have said it appeared aimed mostly at Iran's nuclear program and that its sophistication indicates involvement by a nation state, possibly the...
01:44 PM, Sep 30, 2011
Los Angeles: A Southern California man was sentenced on Thursday to six years in prison for infiltrating computers belonging to women and teenage girls where he found sexually explicit photos and threatening to put them online unless they provided him with more. In sentencing Luis Mijangos, 32, of Santa Ana, US District Judge George King called the crimes a form of cyber-terrorism and warned other hackers they will meet stiff...
06:29 AM, Sep 02, 2011
Bangalore: US computer security software maker McAfee said the number of malware targeted at Android devices jumped 76 per cent since last quarter, making Android the most attacked mobile operating system. "This year we have seen record breaking numbers of malware, especially on mobile devices, where the uptick is in direct correlation to popularity," Vincent Weafer, senior vice president of McAfee Labs, said in a statement. In the second quarter...
12:54 PM, Aug 23, 2011
Kanpur: Bodies of eight victims of Kalka Mail tragedy, whose identity could not be ascertained, have been cremated after taking their DNA samples, a senior railway official said on Sunday. "Sixty-nine people, including two Swedish nationals, were killed in the rail mishap on July 10 at the Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh," General Manager Of North Central Railway Harish Chandra Joshi said adding that identity of eight could not be...
05:17 PM, Jul 24, 2011
New Delhi: Railway Ministry sources tell CNN-IBN that engine failure could be the cause of the Kalka Mail accident that killed over 60 people on Sunday. The engine of the Kalka Mail stopped suddenly leading to the accident according to the sources. Malfunction of the undergear of the locomotive could also be a reason. The driver of the Kalka Mail said he saw the engine shaking. The application of emergency...
06:14 PM, Jul 13, 2011
Kanpur: It has been three days since the Howrah-Kalka Mail tragedy and still many injured passengers remain unidentified. One such victim is a man, approximately 30-years-old, who was brought to Hallet Hospital in Kanpur in an unconscious state. Soon after he was admitted, he slipped into a coma. "He has suffered severe head injuries, because of which his breathing isn't constant and that's why we had to put him on...
07:36 AM, Jul 13, 2011
Allahabad: The Indian Air Force (IAF) has deployed eight aircraft along with 180 army personnel for rescue and relief operations at the site of the derailment of the Kalka Mail in Uttar Pradesh. According to IAF spokesperson, one IL-76 transport plane, two Avros, one Embraer, two MI-17s and two Chetak helicopters have been deployed along with heavy machinery and medical teams. "Seven lives were saved including, that of a woman,...
10:20 PM, Jul 11, 2011
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