23 November 2011

Sayali’s had enough; Royalliesland cinePRin jail

The long winded drama over the bizarre charges being levied at mainstream Bollywood stars – supposedly by Sayali Bhagat – culminated in the arrest, on Sayali’s complaint, of her PR firm’s head, who has a history of doing this earlier.

Sayali had filed a police complaint against him when a slew of mails began to be sent out from his PR company – Crème Talent Management – saying Sayali is accusing Amitabh Bachchan, Sajid Khan, Arya Babbar of sexual harassment. Sayali said she had no idea either of the incidents, or of the mails being sent.

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21 November 2011

Three quarters of tech firms hit by cyber criminals

THREE quarters of technology, media and telecoms firms have been the subject of cyber attacks in the last year, according to new research by Deloitte – an increase of 13 per cent on 2010.
Mobile devices are expected to become the top security threat faced by companies in the next 12 months.

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More younsters taking to cyber crime crime mafia posing challenge to cops

KOCHI: Keralites have a penchant for learning new things. But their interaction with cyber criminals in the cyber world to learn the latest crime tips of late is posing a serious challenge to the state cyber police.

According to the state cyber police wing, many people which has been monitoring the cyber world, cyber criminals in the state are getting into the dark shades of the cyber world after forming alliances with cyber criminals from other countries.

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Cyber criminals to target mobile devices and London Olympics in 2012: M86

Mobile malware will emerge as a real time threat and targeted attacks will become more complex and public in 2012, according to security vendor, M86.
A key discovery was the rise of malware on mobile devices and the potential for this to cause damage in businesses.

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NATO Working with Private Sector to Deter Cyber Attacks

As stated in the NATO Strategic Concept, cyber attacks are one of the top three threats facing the Alliance in today's world in which life without computers is unimaginable. As such, in order to help resist and deter new threats to international security through the multiplication of often sophisticated cyber attacks, NATO has been working with some of the world’s biggest private cyber security companies to share knowledge and experience.
In 2012, a new cyber defence package, with a first tranche of €28 million, will enhance NATO's capabilities to monitor and react to cyber incidents with its networks; equipment will be modernised and reaction teams upgraded.

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Kids Who Follow House Rules Have Less Negative Experiences Online

The latest edition of the Norton Online Family Report sheds new light on the realities and risks of growing up in the digital age. This year's report identifies the new issue of "cyberbaiting," a growing phenomenon where kids taunt their teachers, then capture the distressed reactions via cell phone videos. In addition, the report reveals a surprisingly high number of kids taking liberties with their parents' credit cards for shopping online. However, it's not all bad news: the report shows that following clearly stated house rules for proper Internet behavior can make a significant impact in averting negative online experiences.

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19 November 2011

10 Coon Rapids High School Students Suspended for Cyberbullying

Ten Coon Rapids High School students have been suspended for harassing comments made on Facebook.

According to Brett Johnson with the Anoka Hennepin School District, the online dispute escalated into a shouting match at the school Tuesday before teachers intervened. The students are serving 3-10 day suspensions.

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1 in 4 Teens Bullied at School

Students Who Are Subjected to School Bullying and Cyberbullying Report More Depression and Suicide Attempts.

One in four high school students in a recent survey said they were victims of school bullying, and nearly 16% said they were victims of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying was more common among girls than boys, with 18% of girls and 13% of boys reporting being victims during the previous 12 months.

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18 November 2011

Teachers at risk of cyberbaiting, kids raiding mom’s digital purse

Online culture is evolving so quickly, it’s hard to keep up sometimes even when you follow it every day. “Cyberbaiting,” a growing phenomenon where kids taunt their teachers, then capture the distressed reactions via cell phone videos.
In addition, the report reveals a surprisingly high number of kids taking liberties with their parents’ credit cards for shopping online. However, it’s not all bad news: the report shows that following clearly stated house rules for proper Internet behavior can make a significant impact in averting negative online experiences.

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NATO seeks greater engagement with India

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato), even as it charts out roadmaps for a sizeable US-led military training mission in Afghanistan till 2024 and a post-conflict role in Libya, wants a deeper engagement with India in fields ranging from counter-terrorism and anti-piracy to cyber-security and ballistic missile defence (BMD).
India, however, remains wary of being closely associated with any multi-nation military arrangement unless it's under the UN flag, positioning itself as a neutral player, even though it has forged expansive bilateral military ties with leading Nato countries like the US, France and UK.

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For Cyber Security, NATO Sees an Ally in India

From N.C. Bipindra, IANS: Faced with a common cyber security threat from Chinese hackers, NATO is eyeing India as an ally in securing its computers that hold sensitive information and data against malwares and Trojan viruses.

With US already signing a cyber security collaboration pact with India this July, the 28-nation American-led political and military alliance is of the view that it can collaborate with the South Asian information technology superpower in protecting the cyber world, one of the global commons.

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Social networking sites fast becoming 'anti-social'

NAGPUR: World over, Facebook users are experiencing attacks from hackers and morphed images having pornographic contents are being uploaded on FB accounts without the knowledge of actual users. Social networking sites are fast becoming corrupt with lewd and explicit content. Even the city is rocked by many cases of cyber crime as many netizens reported of account hacking and forgery.

Five cases related to account hacking, morphed photographs and data laundering were reported recently. All the victims' accounts were hacked and some of them who had their account configured with a social networking site, were victims of obscene updates that were uploaded on their profiles.

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Duqu returns to Iran

HUA HIN, Thailand - Iran this week claimed it had detected Duqu malware on some of its computer networks. Duqu was discovered last month as a variant of the Stuxnet worm that wreaked havoc on nuclear facilities in the Islamic Republic and was designed specifically to target industrial control systems.

Duqu appears to be a Trojan that facilitates remote access capabilities and gathers information in preparation for a major cyber-attack at a later time; it enters a computer via an exploit in Windows font parsing software that is triggered by opening an infected Microsoft Word document.

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17 November 2011

Rising e-commerce leading to frauds: RBI deputy governor

“Increase of e-commerce and information technology-enabled transactions has led to quite a few cyber crimes,” RBI deputy governor HR Khan said while speaking at a seminar on ‘Trends in Economic Offences’ organised by the Mumbai Police

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Info security graduates targeted for hacking

Authorities are investigating a possible North Korea-organized attempt to hack into e-mail accounts of students and alumni of Korea University’s Graduate School of Information Security.

According to the graduate school, e-mails carrying malware designed to enable the sender to access e-mail accounts were sent to about 50 current students and graduates of the school.

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Govt servers used for cyber attacks on China, other countries' networks

NEW DELHI: Investigators have unearthed a new and deadly pattern of cyber attacks in which Indian government servers have been used by foreign entities to target the computer networks of third countries.

The finding comes at a time when a dispute rages within the government over who should be responsible for protecting India's critical IT infrastructure. According to sources, foreign entities have penetrated the servers of theNational Informatics Centre in recent months and used them to launch attacks on countries, including China. Among other things, the NIC hosts the official websites and emails of the Indian government.
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The department of IT believes the job should vest with the Computer Emergency Response Team while the NTRO says it must have the responsibility for both defensive as well as offensive cyber security.
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16 November 2011

Lying on Shaadi.com equivalent sites in US could soon become a prosecutable crime

The U.S. Department of Justice proposed violations of a websites' terms and conditions as a prosecutable crime Tuesday.

While focused on crimes infringing national security, indirect beneficiaries to the proposal would be users of social media sites like Match.com, which advertises itself as a means of connecting single adult users through other users' profiles.

Two lakh Facebook accounts from Bangalore hacked, profile pics put on porn sites

Bangalore: Over two lakh city Facebook users woke up to a social media embarrassment yesterday morning as their accounts had been hacked and weblinks to their morphed pornographic pictures sent as feeds to friends and family.

According to global media reports, more than 60 lakh Facebook accounts were hacked since Sunday night.

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All Porn and gore

A resident of Koramangala logged on to her Facebook account yesterday morning from a cyber cafe, only to get the shock of her life. "My mother, brother and 19 friends of mine had rebuked me after reading my status message.

It had a link to a website, and on clicking I saw my face morphed and pasted onto the body of a porn star. My name and details were also available on the website. I called the police, but they directed me to the cybercrime police station," said Kamini Varma (name changed).

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Meanwhile, Facebook put up a set of guidelines for users who had either been hacked, or heard of such incidents. The official Facebook Security blog post said, "Security and safety are at the core of Facebook.

We have entire teams dedicated to building tools that give people even more control over their account, and specifically the way they access their information. In fact, many of our most talented engineers are working exclusively on creating a secure environment on Facebook."

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Cyberbullying is ruining lives, but teens fight back

NORTHFIELD, Minn., November 15, 2011 — Peter Jacobs was a popular soccer player until he missed a goal and lost the championship game. Cyberbullying started, and he lost his popularity, his girlfriend, and his confidence.

Online bullying, or Cyberbullying, happens when teens use the Internet, cell phones, or other devices to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person. Cyberbullying is a problem that affects almost half of all American teens. (NCPC), 2011).

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Spurned man uses FB to try and break colleague’s engagement

An administration officer with a pharmaceutical company (name withheld to protect identity), who was due to tie the knot early next year, was left devastated when her engineer fiancé decided to call off the wedding. She spent the next few weeks trying to find out what went wrong.

After a lot of pleading and persuading, the ‘former’ fiancé told the 25-year-old about receiving facebook messages from her profile confessing to having an affair with a colleague – Sandesh Panchal – and other explicit personal details.

Unable to believe that something like that was happening to her, the victim – who says that she doesn’t use the social networking site too often – tried to log into her account to check the cause of the nightmare. But she failed. The facebook administrator denied access to her stating that her password was incorrect.

The woman immediately alerted the Mumbai police cyber cell and lodged a complaint that her account has been hacked.
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“Panchal, who worked as a chemical inspector in the victim’s company, was good with computers and had learnt hacking from a friend,” said the police.
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When contacted, Joint Commissioner of Police (crime) Himanshu Roy said, “We often receive complaints about people known to the victim misusing their facebook and email accounts. We request citizens to be careful while sharing their personal details with others.”

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Three cyber police stations to be set up in J-K: Khoda

Jammu Three cyber police stations would be set up in Jammu and Kashmir to deal with the threat of cyber crime, Director General of Police Kuldeep Khoda said today. The cyber police stations would be set up at Srinagar, Jammu and Crime Headquarters in the state,

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Annual Report 2010, The General Intelligence and Security Service, Ministry of Interior, Netherlands

Gerard Bouman, Head of the General Intelligence and Security Service in Foreword has said, " In 2010, therefore, the service shifted its focus somewhat,from endogenous risks and threats to exogenous ones. For
example, we acted to strengthen our information position and operational effectiveness in and with respect to the international arena. Among other things, this was done by improving technological skills and IT systems. The change in focus has also had consequences for the manner in which the AIVD supplies information to its partners. This activity is now increasingly oriented towards those partners which can play a role in preventing or reducing the exogenous threat."

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15 November 2011

Amitabh not angry with Sayali Bhagat

Sayali Bhagat recently faced a spot of trouble a public relations agency circulated fake press releases on her, alleging that Amitabh Bachchan and rape-accused actor Shiney Ahuja sexually harassed her. The model-turned-actor, who lodged a complaint with the Mumbai police, is relieved that Bachchan doesn’t have any angst against her and has sought legal recourse against this cyber crime.
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“I have exchanged mails with him, and he understands that some third party is involved. He took it to the police from his side as well. He has filed another complaint,” says Sayali, adding, “I even spoke to some other actors, and they all understand that I have been victimised.”
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Bangluru - Two held for tarnishing corporators image

BANGALORE: The Kodigehalli police arrested two persons for allegedly trying to tarnish the image of BBMP Corporator of ward no 8, Ashwathnarayana Gowda, through e-mail and blogs.
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According to the police, Corporator Gowda had filed a case against Jagadeesh, a civil contractor, and accused him of hurling abuses at BBMP officials. The police had investigated the case and had filed chargesheet against Jagadeesh.

Raged over this, Jagadeesh allegedly posted lewd comments about the corporator in his blog and the corporator had again filed a case under the IT Act.

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Former GCHQ director claims security ignorance is holding back business

A lack of understanding of cyber security issues is holding business leaders back from forming a sufficient strategy against cyber crime.

According to former GCHQ director Sir David Pepper, too many businesses are ignoring the immensity of cyber crime, and strong leadership from both government and industry is needed to protect the nation against criminals, hacktivists, cyber terrorists and espionage.

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“Government and business need to work together to ensure that the risks brought about by cyber crime are matched with appropriate investment, information sharing, training and changes in behaviour to give better protection.”

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Hyderabad - Man held over cyber crimes

HYDERABAD: Crime Investigation Cell (CIC) of Hyderabad Police has arrested a suspect, Ashraf alias Rahul Sharma, who was allegedly involved in the cyber crimes.
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"He trap people by informing that they had won cash prizes so that he could elicit their bank account and credit card details,"
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Anti-social web spreads on social networking terrain

Police say easy access to websites on cellphones, net cafes and homes has fuelled its misuse

The share of offences related to social networking among cybercrimes registered in the city is showing an upward trend. In less than two years from 2010, it has jumped from around 20 per cent of the total 410 cyber crimes registered, to 35 per cent of the 350 cybercrimes registered till September, data from the Cybercrime Cell of the Pune police show. It could go higher with projections that this year, cybercrimes may surpass the 2010 total.

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Shinde said, “In some cases, mischievous college students or youths create fake profiles of other students, especially girls. Many a time, obscene content and phone numbers are posted. There is also a rise in cases in which women whose marriages have been finalised or those who recently married have complained about defamatory matter posted about them. The suspects are many a time their old friends.”

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13 November 2011

SURWARE DuQu - a handiwork of Wednesday's Gang

Aleks of Kaspersky Lab Expert has Posted November 11, 12:09 GMT

The Duqu Saga Continues: Enter Mr. B. Jason and TV’s Dexter

Kaspersky Lab in hot chase of DUQU and in close coordination with Sudanese CERT has reveled new facts about this game changing SURVEILLANCE MALWARE (This family of malware , I like to call SURWARE pronounces similar to 'surveyor').

Kaspersky lab found three ~DQ-type files, created on May 25, June 29 and August 24, all three dates were Wednesdays. This could be just a coincidence, maybe not. Still, based on this ‘coincidence’ Kaspersky Lab preferred to name the group behind Duqu as the Wednesday’s Gang :)

The report brings many new facets of this Surware which can be read at http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193243/The_Duqu_Saga_Continues_Enter_Mr_B_Jason_and_TVs_Dexter

Some of the key findings of the report are :

- For every victim, a separate set of attack files was created;

- Each unique set of files used a separate control server;

- The attacks were conducted via e-mails with a .DOC file attached;

- The mail-outs took place from anonymous mailboxes, probably via compromised computers;

- At least one e-mail address is known from which the mail-outs were conducted -bjason1xxxx@xxxx.com;

- For each victim, a separate DOC file was put together;

- The vulnerability exploit was contained in the font called “Dexter Regular”;

- The attackers changed the shellcode, and varied the range of dates for possible infection;

- After penetration into a system the attackers installed extra modules and infected neighboring computers;

- The presence on the systems of the files ~DF.tmp and ~DQ.tmp unambiguously points to an infection by Duqu.

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09 November 2011

Smartphone malware up by 800%

More alarm bells are being rung regarding the ever increasing amounts of malware which are aimed at smartphone users.
The latest warnings come from the Get Safe Online campaign, which has produced its state of the nation report for 2011.

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02 November 2011

Engineer falls prey to cyber fraud, loses Rs 2.8 lakh

New Delhi, November 02, 2011

Last month, a 26-year-old Gurunath Lingesh, a software engineer from Chennai, was certain of being the happiest man alive. Reasonably so, thanks to an early morning email, which mysteriously appeared in his inbox and declared him the sole winner of a lottery worth close to a million British

Pounds.

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