A millionaire Pretoria businessman is at the centre of a criminal investigation over the alleged illegal interception of his estranged wife's private e-mails, SMSes and BlackBerry messages, or BBMs.
The hacking was first suspected when Dr Graham Hefer filed divorce proceedings against his wife Denise. According to the report, court documents in that case seemed to show that Hefer had access to more than 50 BBMs, a dozen SMSes and at least five e-mails between Denise and others this year. Hefer (48) is accused of installing spyware software on 49-year-old Denise's BlackBerry, says the report which notes this is said to have allowed real-time monitoring of her communication and her whereabouts, and for eavesdropping on her private conversations. These included discussions with her lawyer.
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30 November 2011
Police using its own network to crack down cyber crime
The Delhi Police have decided to fight fire with fire — by using its own ‘networking’ skills to get the better of cyber criminals on social networking websites.
With everyone from professional hackers to IT professionals on their (unofficial) cyber crime-fighting ‘friends list’, tech-savvy police officers are increasingly combining traditional methods of policing with technical expertise provided by ‘good-willed’ computer experts.
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With everyone from professional hackers to IT professionals on their (unofficial) cyber crime-fighting ‘friends list’, tech-savvy police officers are increasingly combining traditional methods of policing with technical expertise provided by ‘good-willed’ computer experts.
“More and more young adults, aged between 18 to 25 years, are taking to the internet to settle personal scores by defaming victims through fake profiles and hacking emails. As many as three complaints relating to fake profiles are brought to our notice every day,” said a senior police officer from the Crime Branch.
Till the end of October this year, as many as 180 ‘bona fide’ cases of fake profiles, 111 cases of abusive emails and more than 70 cases of defamation were registered by the Cyber Crime Cell of the Delhi Police.
With the above translating into a 700% increase in cyber crime as compared to last year, the police have reacted by doubling its manpower — and something extra.Click here to read more ......
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29 November 2011
Facebook groomer jailed for sex assault on 13-year-old
A Rochdale man who groomed and sexually assaulted a girl he met on Facebook has been jailed for three years.
Arran Akhtar, 19, of Lower Fallinge, contacted the 13-year-old from Rossendale on the social networking site, before inviting her to his home.
He pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a child, inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and a sexual assault at Burnley Crown Court.
He was sentenced to three years and put on the sex offenders register.
The victim has shown tremendous courage in coming forward and giving evidence at court.
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Death threat via Facebook
STORIES of friends "hijacking" their friends' Facebook accounts and posting "out-of-character" comments on an idle phone or computer are common and largely harmless.
But when a 14-year-old Grafton boy's Facebook account was hacked last Thursday by some kind of remote software, the perpetrator had more malicious intent.
The unknown hacker started chatting to the boy's female friends and became overtly suggestive about a potential sexual relationship, the boy's parents told The Daily Examiner.
When the girl "twigged" that the comments were not being made by the boy she told the hacker she knew it wasn't the boy "chatting".
"That's when it came out that this person was concerned that (the boy) was interested in a girl that he (the hacker) was interested in," the boy's stepfather said.
The hacker then told the girl that he was going to kill the boy whose Facebook profile he was using and rape another girl, he said.
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28 November 2011
UK released its Cyber Security Strategy
United Kingdom has released its Cyber Security Strategy. Set four objectives for itself:
Objective 1: Tackling cyber crime and making the UK one of the most secure places in the world to do business
Objective 2: Making the UK more resilient to cyber attack and better able to protect our interests in cyberspace
Objective 3: Helping to shape an open, vibrant and stable cyberspace which the UK public can use safely and that supports open societies
Objective 4: Building the UK’s cross-cutting knowledge, skills and capability to underpin all cyber security objectives
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Govt websites on hackers’ radar
India is unable to secure its official websites raising a question mark over claims by the government that it had mounted efforts to tame the growing threat of violation of its digital persona.
According to the latest data there has been an alarming increase in cyber violations of official websites of Central and state governments over the last three years. The digital appearance of Indian government has come under severe pressure after 65 government websites were reported defaced in the month of September.
A Zee Research Group (ZRG) analysis of data maintained by the centralized Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), Department of Information Technology, under the Communications and Information Technology Ministry, revealed that out of a total of 6844 cyber defacements during the year as many as 196 government (gov.in) websites were violated. A maximum of 4502 cases of violation belonged to the ‘.in’ domain.
The CERT is the nodal agency for monitoring and prevention of cyber crime in the country. The government does not divulge details of websites violated. However, it is in public domain that many of government’s websites have come under the cyber hammer in the recent past.
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According to the latest data there has been an alarming increase in cyber violations of official websites of Central and state governments over the last three years. The digital appearance of Indian government has come under severe pressure after 65 government websites were reported defaced in the month of September.
A Zee Research Group (ZRG) analysis of data maintained by the centralized Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), Department of Information Technology, under the Communications and Information Technology Ministry, revealed that out of a total of 6844 cyber defacements during the year as many as 196 government (gov.in) websites were violated. A maximum of 4502 cases of violation belonged to the ‘.in’ domain.
The CERT is the nodal agency for monitoring and prevention of cyber crime in the country. The government does not divulge details of websites violated. However, it is in public domain that many of government’s websites have come under the cyber hammer in the recent past.
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26 November 2011
SMS Medical College principal’s e-mail hacked
JAIPUR: The cyber criminals are at it again. First it was the incident of blasphemous pictures posted on Facebook that caused communal tension in southern Rajasthan. Now it is the principal of Sawai Man Singh Medical College, Dr Subhash Nepalia, who has become the victim of cyber criminals operating from Nigeria.
Nepalia, who is currently in Europe received a call from one of his close friends and a colleague asking for his account number. Nepalia was shocked when his colleague told him of receiving a mail from his email id seeking immediate financial help.
"Dr Nepalia immediately checked his email id and found that his password had been changed. He called a few of his friends on his email contact list to inquire about the mail. Most of them had received message from his email id seeking for help," said Deepak Khandelwal, SHO, Moti Doongri police station.
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Nepalia, who is currently in Europe received a call from one of his close friends and a colleague asking for his account number. Nepalia was shocked when his colleague told him of receiving a mail from his email id seeking immediate financial help.
"Dr Nepalia immediately checked his email id and found that his password had been changed. He called a few of his friends on his email contact list to inquire about the mail. Most of them had received message from his email id seeking for help," said Deepak Khandelwal, SHO, Moti Doongri police station.
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25 November 2011
Over 380 phishing incidents from January to October
New Delhi : Over 380 phishing incidents have been reported in the January-October 2011 period and 508 in 2010 to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the government said Friday.
"A total number of 508 and 386 phishing incidents have been reported to CERT-In in the year 2010 and during January-October 2011 respectively," Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
The minister also said a large number of phishing incidents leading to hacking of bank accounts have also been reported to CERT-In by banks and financial institutions apart from reports of objectionable content, including videos on internet, especially on social networking websites.
Asked if the ministry plans to update the existing cyber crime laws enabling stringent punishments to cyber criminals, Pilot said the Information Technology Act, 2000, has already been amended by the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008, and provides a legal framework to address prevalent cyber crimes.
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BANGALORE: Five persons were arrested on charges of phishing bank accounts, police said on Thursday.
Cyber Crime Police Station, CID, Bangalore, had received complaints from some bank account holders who had availed online banking facility that they had fallen prey to the phishing attack.
During the course of investigation, it was revealed that when the account holders had responded to the phishing mail, they could not subsequently access their accounts as their contact information, passwords, contact phone numbers and other details had been changed.This had been done by the fraudsters so that the actual account holder was not intimated by the bank about the fraudulent transactions.
Later, the fraudsters had transferred the amount available in these accounts to several beneficiary accounts in Mumbai and northern, north-eastern and other states.
The Phishing mails have originated from Nigeria and other foreign countries.
‘Phishing’ is a technique which is deployed to steal confidential financial information like bank account numbers, net banking passwords, credit card numbers and personal ID details.
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Cyber Crime Police Station, CID, Bangalore, had received complaints from some bank account holders who had availed online banking facility that they had fallen prey to the phishing attack.
During the course of investigation, it was revealed that when the account holders had responded to the phishing mail, they could not subsequently access their accounts as their contact information, passwords, contact phone numbers and other details had been changed.This had been done by the fraudsters so that the actual account holder was not intimated by the bank about the fraudulent transactions.
Later, the fraudsters had transferred the amount available in these accounts to several beneficiary accounts in Mumbai and northern, north-eastern and other states.
The Phishing mails have originated from Nigeria and other foreign countries.
‘Phishing’ is a technique which is deployed to steal confidential financial information like bank account numbers, net banking passwords, credit card numbers and personal ID details.
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24 November 2011
Children susceptible to cyber bullying
With easy access to movies, music and other softwares online and connectivity of people just a click away, increasing number of children are falling prey to cyber bullying.
According to a recently released survey of online security technology firm McAfee, 62% of children shared personal information online and 39% of parents were unaware of what their children do online. The survey says 58% of the children polled shared their home address on the internet while 12% have been victims of some kind of cyber threat.
Mumbai had the highest cyber bullying levels, with one-third of the children reporting that they were subject to either cyber hacking, fraud or identity theft. The survey was conducted on 500 children of age group 9 to 17 across 10 cities of the country.
Next gen kids:
42% in the 13-17 age group spend 1-2 hours online in a day.
60% in the 9-12 age group have e-mail accounts.
64% in the 9-12 age group are members of social networking sites.
62% of the children were asked for personal information online.
53% shared their home address, city and contact details online.
What parents believe:
32% parents believe their children spent too much time online.
49% parents believe their children owned e-mail accounts.
54% believe that their children are members of social networking sites.
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In five years, city's crime graph climbs 15%
PUNE: Crime in the city is 15% higher since 2005 when 11,817 cognizable offences were registered to 13,602 in 2010. However, the all-time high of 14,467 crimes in the five-year period was registered in 2008. The number of crimes - both under the IT Act, and IPC sections increased. Most cases pertained to forgery or criminal breach of trust or fraud.
An analysis of crime figures in various cities as brought out in the latest 'Crime in India' report for 2010 by the National Crime Records Bureau ( NCRB) has new aspects. In all, 3,68,883 cognizable crimes were registered in 35 cities with Pune accounting for 3.7% of the total crimes.
Pune has a high number of student population using the internet and it is an IT hub. People earlier were not aware about what action they could take after a cyber crime. Today, they approach the cyber crime cell or the police stations.
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Katrina Kaif is the ‘most dangerous Indian celebrity’ in cyberspace
MUMBAI: Actress Katrina Kaif could be a heartthrob of millions but she has also earned herself a sobriquet of being the 'most dangerous Indian celebrity' as the cyber criminals are using her name as a favourite key word that exposes computers to malicious software.
The actress has emerged as the most dangerous celebrity in the Indian cyber space for year 2011, according to a report by the internet security company McAfee.
Fans looking for results on search engines using strings such as 'name of celebrity' combined with words like 'free downloads', 'hot pictures', 'screen savers', and 'videos' are at a risk of running themselves into websites with malicious software and online threats.
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The actress has emerged as the most dangerous celebrity in the Indian cyber space for year 2011, according to a report by the internet security company McAfee.
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Fake Jaitley on Twitter, real files complaint
Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley became the latest victim of cyber crime as his fake profile was created on a popular social networking website.
The Bharatiya Janata Party member has filed a complaint with the Delhi Police, alleging an unknown person has created a fake Twitter account in his name.
The complaint states that someone has “created an account in the name of ‘@Jaitleyarun’, which is in circulation on the website www.twitter.com”.
Jaitley is not the first MP to become a victim of cyber crime. Last year, senior BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy’s personal assistant had also filed a complaint with the EOW alleging that an unknown person had created a fake profile of Rudy on ‘Facebook’. Also, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi’s fake account had also been created on Facebook.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party member has filed a complaint with the Delhi Police, alleging an unknown person has created a fake Twitter account in his name.
The complaint states that someone has “created an account in the name of ‘@Jaitleyarun’, which is in circulation on the website www.twitter.com”.
Jaitley is not the first MP to become a victim of cyber crime. Last year, senior BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy’s personal assistant had also filed a complaint with the EOW alleging that an unknown person had created a fake profile of Rudy on ‘Facebook’. Also, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi’s fake account had also been created on Facebook.
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