Cyber Crime in India

01 October 2011

Air traffic control data found on eBayed network gear

A switch with networking configurations and passwords for the UK traffic control centre was offered for sale on eBay, raising serious security concerns.The £20 Cisco Catalyst switch was bought by security consultant Michael Kemp, co-founder at Xiphos Research Labs, who quickly discovered that it has been used at the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) centre in Prestwick by contractor Serco. Data on the switch included supervisor credentials, internal VLAN and other networking configurations and upstream switch addresses as well as domains, gateways and syslogs.
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"Practical consequences are hard to call," Kemp explained. "But we have full details of their internal VLAN estate, SNMP community strings (read and write, named after aircraft funnily enough), some idea about password composition, VTP Trunk info and password, and details of upstream switching.
"Basically what that means is that we could wander up to Prestwick and be Serco for a bit, slot in our own switch (with no outside, adult help) and control all traffic that was switched over it.
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Hate mail: Digvijay approaches cops

NEW DELHI: Congress general secretaryDigvijay Singh on Thursday approached the Delhi Police with a complaint against the hate mail, objectionable pictures and abusive comments posted ahainst him on social networking sites. He named 22 people and eight websites.

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28 September 2011

Cyber attack led to IGI shutdown

Three months ago, a ‘technical snag’ had hit operations at the state-of-the-art T3 terminal at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA). It now turns out it was caused by a “malicious code” sent from a remote location to breach the security at the airport.

A hunt has been launched to nab the perpetrator with the CBI registering a case under the IT Act and IPC. Investigators say that the “malicious code” was in the form of “attack scripts”, which means a programme was written by an expert to exploit the system’s security weakness.

The check-in counters, transfers counters and boarding gates at the IGI are operated using the Common Use Passengers Processing System (CUPPS), maintained by Aeronautical Radio Incorporated (ARINC). The CUPPS operates on a common software-and-hardware platform that integrates all information such as an airline’s reservation system, the expected time of departure and the capacity at waiting lounges. The problem in CUPPS started at 2.30 am on June 29 due to which check-in counters of all airlines at T3 became non-operational.

27 September 2011

Stalker women alarm Punjab cops

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Indian defence cos new target of cyber criminals

New Delhi: Indian defence companies are increasingly becoming target of cyber criminals as they are vulnerable to breaches of cyber security, according to a report by Trend Micro.
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"While this network has managed to compromise a relatively small number of victims, there is a high concentration of defence industry companies among the victims. Moreover, the fact that specific malware components are created for specific victims indicates a level of intentionality among the attackers," Trend Micro Country Manager India and SAARC Amit Nath said.

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Techie held for sending obscene messages to former employer

HYDERABAD: A software professional was arrested on Thursday for sending obscene messages to his former employer and several other senior employees of ICOM, a software company, for allegedly not recognising his work.

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"At one point of time, the management of the company decided to terminate the employees from whose IDs the lewd messages were sent, thinking that they were the culprits. But later it came to know about the mischief deliberately played by someone and approached the police to lodge a complaint," CID superintendent Ram Mohan said.

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Indian Grand Prix: Beware of F1 tickets scam

Delhi: With only one month left for the Formula 1 games to be held in Greater Noida, and youngsters looking for options to grab tickets for the mega event, cyber criminals have started to play foul in order to lure young enthusiasts. Lakshmi Nagar resident Hemant Mehta Agarwal could not believe his luck when he received an SMS which said that Formula 1 organisers had selected his number and that he was eligible to get free tickets to the mega games carnival to be held in Greater Noida. But when he called back on the number to claim his reward, Hemant sensed some foul play and discovered that it was a fraud.

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Two land in trouble for creating bogus FB account

Dimapur | September 23 : Morphing pictures of friends and acquaintances, albeit in jest, has become a popular practice with the advent of computer assisted photo editing software. Such a rage it has become that online networking sites are not complete without people uploading ‘photoshopped’ pictures of themselves as well as other ranging from the outrageously hilarious to the downright offensive. Celebrities and even heads of states are not spared.
This seemingly innocent application has however, landed two youngsters into trouble, big time. For the information of all concerned, cyber offence is a serious crime and are dealt with under the Cyber Act.
It was on September 6 last, the Muslim Council of Dimapur lodged police a complaint citing that some person(s) had misused the nomenclature of the council in the form of creating a bogus Facebook account under its name and uploaded some unpleasant morphed pictures. The account also bore the face of Osama Bin Laden as its profile picture.

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Security Ranks as Top Business Priority for 2012

By SiliconIndia, Tuesday, 27 September 2011

According to the Second Annual Cost of Cyber Crime Study, cyber attacks have a significant financial impact on business and government organizations, despite widespread awareness. ....
The study indicated that though executives are aware of potential security threats, they lack confidence in their organizations risk management practices. Only 35 percent of business and technology leaders were very well defended against security threats. Executives said that complexity of risks has increased over 70 percent and mentioned that the volume and complexity of risks and threats continue to escalate.

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Airports in terrorists’ sights?

The cyber crime sleuths of the State’s premier investigating agency - Criminal Investigation Department (CID) - have sought help from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) police to track the whereabouts of an accused who sent a threat e-mail warning of attacks on one of the airports in India. Strangely, the accused has sent the threat e-mail to the official e-mail ID of the cyber crime police station of the CID.
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Karnataka plans three more cyber crime police stations

MANGALORE, SEPT. 21:

Karnataka will set up three cyber crime police stations in major cities in the State, according to Dr S.M. Jaamdar, Principal Secretary (Home Affairs), Karnataka.

Speaking at the inauguration of M.Sc. in Criminology and Forensic Science at Roshni Nilaya School of Social Work here on Wednesday, he said that the State Government recently received guidelines to set up cyber crime police stations.

Plans are there to open cyber crime police stations in Mangalore, Hubli-Dharwad and Mysore in the first phase

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Hackers preying on shopaholics in festive season

By: Sheetal Sukhija

Date: 2011-09-27

Place: Bangalore

Cyber crime dept sees surge in phishing cases since the onset of the festive season; statistics show around 85 per cent shoppers prefer e-shopping than trudging to malls
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The cyber crime police have recorded an upsurge in the number of phishing and hacking cases happening on these online shopping portals offering merchandise at alluring prices.
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"We are receiving at least 15 complaints of customers being cheated on online shopping portals every week.

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Over 1,000 people registered on the site and paid their fee, but the next day, the site shut down. All the people who had paid huge sum didn't know what to do.

It is best to place your trust only in known brands or names in the online shopping segment," said Rammurthy.

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Expansion plan of Cyber cell caught in red tape

KOZHIKODE: Though e-mail and internet frauds, mobile phone abuses and other cyber crimes are on the rise in the state, the expansion programme of the Cyber Crime Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram, which has jurisdiction all over Kerala, has been caught in red tape.

The proposal was submitted by Anil Kant, IGP, State Crimes Record Bureau, to the Home Department four months ago. However, the department cut down the recommendation of posting 37 officers in the station to 16 and submitted to the Finance Department. It is learnt that the Finance Department had objected the proposal of creating new posts and returned the same to Home Department citing financial constraints

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Special wing to combat cyber crimes: Ashoka

TNN | Sep 27, 2011,
BIJAPUR: Home minister R Ashoka said on Monday that with a view to curb increasing cyber crimes in the state, a special wing will be constituted....
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The home minister further said that the government has also decided to expand the activity of the command platoon and special squad at the divisional level to detect cyber crimes faster.
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A veterinarian who is busy cracking cyber crimes in Pune

By Chaitraly Deshmukh |

Meet the new deputy commissioner of police heading the cyber crime cell, economic offences wing (EOW) and the anti-narcotics cell, Sanjay Shinde. He hails from Sangli and initially worked as a veterinarian in the state animal husbandry department. But in 1990, he cleared the Maharashtra Public Service Commission examination .....
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How does the department tackle such crimes?
Cracking cyber crimes or economic offences are unlike routine ones. Such crimes are committed by the suspects who are well-versed in computers or seek help of experts.

Many of the suspects committing cyber crimes are well-educated and have an IT background. We have a well-trained staff that has enormous knowledge in tackling such cases. We also seek help from experts. Furthermore, internship programme involving college students too is helping us in solving some of the cyber crime cases.

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Growing web of stalker women alarm Punjab cops

Abhijit Prashar, TNN | Sep 27, 2011, 01.41AM IST

MOHALI: Spurned lovers taking to cyber crime to take revenge is quite common but women taking centre stage in such malicious attempts has alarmed experts at Punjab state cyber crime branch. They have received at least three complaints over the last two weeks of women stalking, harassing and maligning men, with whom they were in a relationship at some point in time.

The three young women, accused in separate cases, had come from different cities of Punjab to Chandigarh for jobs. The common factor in all the cases is the element of rejection that pushed these women into cyber crime. "In one of the cases, the complainant told us that he got friendly with a young woman at his workplace in December 2010. Then for some reasons, they parted ways on mutual terms in July this year and since then he has been receiving threatening e-mails. He still had no clue that the woman he knew was behind this till he got an expert to match IP addresses," said state crime branch SSP Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh.

He said in another case, a young man was involved with a young woman for the past many years. Then they parted ways as both wanted to get married to someone else. Later, the young woman started sending threatening e-mails to the young man and that is when he approached them.

Speaking to TOI, the SSP said, "Over the last few weeks, we have come across cases which involve women in their 20s and 30s taking to cyber crime against a man they knew. If every three months we receive around 10 cases, then at least one of them involves a young woman. Lack of patience and supervision by a family elder are the chief factors behind such trend."

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26 September 2011

SMS, email won't get you to Indian Grand Prix Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/sms-email-wont-get-you-to-indian-grand-prix-136266&cp

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