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Navy personnel arrested for sending lewd SMSes

Visakhapatnam: A sailor of the Indian Navy was arrested by the Cyber Crime Wing of Visakhapatnam Police on charges of sending obscene SMSes to the daughter of his superior officer, police said on Saturday. According to police, M Rana, working at Eastern Naval Command in Viskhapatnam and staying at 'INS Circars', was allegedly sending obscene messages to the daughter of a Commander based in Visakhapatnam. The girl informed her father...

07:27 AM, Mar 06, 2011

There's still child labour on movie sets: Sarika

by IANS

Mumbai: Seasoned actress Sarika, who started her career as a child artist in the late 1960s, says in over four decades there has been no marked improvement in the condition of young ones on movie sets and it can still be called "child labour". "Basic problems are still the same. It is said they have teachers coming on sets and proper time is given for homework, but nothing of that...

02:49 PM, Feb 17, 2011

Bank of America stops handling WikiLeaks account

by Associated Press

Washington: Bank of America Corporation has joined several other financial institutions in refusing to handle payments for WikiLeaks, the latest blow to the secret-releasing organisation's efforts to continue operating under pressure from governments and the corporate world. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank's move adds to similar actions by Mastercard Inc and PayPal Inc. Though previous moves have prompted reprisals by hackers, Bank of America's site is as well-protected as they...

04:41 PM, Dec 19, 2010

Facebook, Twitter delete pro-WikiLeaks hackers' accounts

by Reuters

London: Facebook and Twitter deleted the accounts of cyber activists who targeted Visa and other Internet payment sites that sought to block the WikiLeaks website after its release of US diplomatic cables. Facebook confirmed it had removed the activists' Operation Payback site on Thursday because it was promoting a distributed denial of service attack - an illegal form of freezing websites. Twitter declined to comment. The swoop against Operation Payback's...

12:33 PM, Dec 10, 2010

Visa becomes next target for WikiLeaks backers

by Associated Press

New York: The websites for Visa and MasterCard were inaccessible for parts of Wednesday, likely the result of attacks by WikiLeaks supporters who are angry that the credit card companies had stopped processing donations to the organization. Both MasterCard and Visa said that cardholders' accounts were not at risk and that people could continue using their credit cards throughout the day. Supporters of the WikiLeaks, which has released thousands of...

11:47 AM, Dec 09, 2010

Attack on MasterCard site a grass-roots effort

by Reuters

Boston: Advocates of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange quickly built a cyber army that took down MasterCard Inc's website using simple tools posted on the Web. MasterCard's website was shut down for much of the day on Wednesday as a group calling itself AnonOps organized a "Denial of Service" attack on the credit card giant, which had stopped processing donations for WikiLeaks after the United States criticized its release of sensitive...

11:32 AM, Dec 09, 2010

WikiLeaks supporters attack MasterCard site

by Reuters

London: Hackers have crashed the website of credit card firm MasterCard in apparent retaliation for its blocking of donations to the Wikileaks website, the BBC and other media reported on Wednesday. MasterCard was not immediately available to comment. The website did not appear to be available online. Web activists calling themselves Anonymous threatened earlier this week to launch denial of service attacks against businesses such as online payment firm PayPal...

07:01 PM, Dec 08, 2010