Jerusalem: More than 44 million hacking attempts have been made on Israeli government web sites since Wednesday when Israel began its Gaza air strikes, the government said on Sunday. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said just one hacking attempt was successful on a site he did not want to name, but it was up and running after 10 minutes of downtime. Typically, there are a few hundred hacking attempts a day...
09:50 AM, Nov 19, 2012
New Delhi: The government has decided to crack the whip on fraudulent multi-level marketing companies that have duped hundreds of investors in the country by blocking their websites and tracking their online transactions. Corporate Affairs Ministry, the nodal department in this regard, has decided that its investigative arm - Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) - will coordinate with Department of Information Technology and Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB) to identify...
12:29 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: The government has decided to crack the whip on fraudulent multi-level marketing companies that have duped hundreds of investors in the country by blocking their websites and tracking their online transactions. Corporate Affairs Ministry, the nodal department in this regard, has decided that its investigative arm - Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) - will coordinate with Department of Information Technology and Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB) to identify...
06:03 PM, Nov 07, 2012
Stockholm: Hackers have struck at least two Swedish government-affiliated websites, shutting down one of them in a denial-of-service attack and leaving links to profane messages on the other. The attacks come just days after police on Monday raided a Stockholm-based webhosting company, PRQ, and a video was posted on YouTube - allegedly made on behalf of the hacker group Anonymous - warning Swedish authorities of repercussions. Police spokesman Anders Ahlqvist...
10:18 AM, Oct 04, 2012
Seattle: Microsoft is launching its own news operation as part of its new-look MSN website when Windows 8 launches later this month. The world's largest software company is making a "big, multi-million dollar investment" to create a "decent-sized media operation," said Bob Visse, general manager, MSN Product Management Group. Microsoft sold its 50 per cent stake in news website MSNBC.com in July to longtime partner NBCUniversal, now majority-owned by Comcast....
06:46 AM, Oct 02, 2012
San Francisco: Amazon.com Inc is closing its fashion website endless.com as the world's largest Internet retailer focuses on a new, upgraded apparel and accessories section of its main website. On September 27, endless.com will become part of Amazon.com/Fashion, according to a statement on the front page of endless.com on Tuesday. Endless.com was launched in 2007, specialising mainly in women's shoes and handbags. Starting next week, endless.com said customers will be...
10:46 AM, Sep 19, 2012
New Delhi: It's almost clear now that Apple's new iPhone will be called the "iPhone 5", but we are still waiting to hear the same from Apple's CEO Tim Cook at Apple's event, which will begin shortly at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts. The name for the new iPhone has been confirmed by Apple's own search tool on its website. According to reports, Apple published four articles...
09:39 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Stockholm: Swedish government websites were jammed by hackers for hours Monday, with some supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claiming responsibility on Twitter. The websites of the Swedish government, Armed Forces and the Swedish Institute were among those experiencing problems. Niklas Englund, head of digital media at the Swedish Armed Forces, said it was unclear who was behind the so-called denial-of-service attacks, in which websites are overwhelmed with bogus traffic....
09:55 AM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Press Information Bureau (PIB) has launched a mobile version of its website to help cellphone users seamlessly access information on the move. "The URL of the mobile website is pib.gov.in/mobile. Mobile users who want the full functionality and display of the regular website can access it through the URL pib.gov.in," a PIB official said. The new site has been customised to display latest press releases on the...
11:11 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Cambodia: Cambodian police have arrested a co-founder of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay and are preparing his extradition to Sweden, where he was convicted of violating copyright laws. Police said Monday that Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was arrested at a home he was renting in Phnom Penh. National police spokesman Kirth Chantharith said the arrest was made last Thursday at Stockholm's request. Cambodia has no extradition treaty with Sweden but has...
10:55 AM, Sep 03, 2012
New Delhi: Over 270 government websites were hacked till July this year, Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot informed parliament. "A total number of 201, 303, 308 and 273 government websites were hacked during the year 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 (till July) respectively," Pilot said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha this week. Asked if computer security analysts have issued alerts for internet users,...
05:02 PM, Sep 01, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Friday sought to downplay its action in the cyberworld in the wake of problems in the northeast, saying it is not targeting individual accounts and websites but wants to block objectionable content. Minister of Communications and IT Kapil Sibal said the government is ready to hold discussions with stakeholders to find a "permanent solution" to the issue. "The difficulty is that Twitter is a site,...
03:56 AM, Aug 25, 2012
Twitter agrees to block fake PMO accounts, but many other handles get blocked in the process. ...
11:31 PM, Aug 23, 2012
Serious questions are being raised over the Central government's ability to deal with offensive content on the internet. ...
10:58 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Thursday issued guidelines for its departments using social media networks asking them not to post confidential information and "unverified" facts. With 40 million Facebook and 16 million Twitter users in India, social media have emerged as a powerful platform for forming an opinion as well as generating mass support, the Information Technology Ministry said in its 38-page guidelines issued on Thursday. "Great care must be...
06:54 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: With Assam still tense following the communal violence in some of its districts, the Central Government is trying to block offensive content on social media websites, which it claims have been responsible for the hate campaign against Northeast Indians. The government has given the microblogging site Twitter and other social media websites a deadline of 12 hours deadline to remove the objectionable content or face a shutdown in...
12:52 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: The government has confirmed that no accounts on the microblogging site Twitter have been blocked so far, sources said on Thursday. They claimed that the Ministry of Home Affairs' request for show cause notice to offensive and provocative handles was still pending with Twitter. In the wake of the mass exodus by Indians from the Northeast, the government had proposed cracking down on hate content on social media...
10:34 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Jamshedpur: In the ongoing crackdown against hate content on social media websites in the wake of the northeast exodus, a former journalist in Jamshedpur was arrested on Thursday for allegedly posting inflammatory messages online. The police seized his computer and hard disk. A probe is on. Meanwhile, 19 more suspects have been arrested in the Azad Maidan violence case. While two of them were produced in court on Wednesday and...
09:16 AM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: An analysis of a leaked list of items that were ordered to be blocked by Indian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on directions from the Department of Telecom bring to light the inconsistencies in India's online censorship efforts. Pranesh Prakash, programme manager at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), analysed the 309 specific items that were asked to be censored from August 18, till August 21, 2012 by...
07:47 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Union Minister Kapil Sibal has defended the government's decision to ban certain websites saying it doesn't amount to censorship but is a means to control the spread of hate messages. ...
01:51 PM, Aug 22, 2012
