India has witnessed a massive surge in cyber crime incidents in about 10 years — from just 23 in 2004 to 72,000 last year, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said here today. “In the year 2004, we had only 23 incidents (of cyber crime). Last year we had about 72,000 incidents. Media reports show as…
Tech sites including Twitter, YouTube and Facebook will be asked by the UK government this week to hand over more information about extremists posting propaganda online. A number of companies – including Google and Microsoft – will attend a meeting with Downing Street policy chiefs reports the Mail on Sunday, where they will be asked to…
The Netherlands has asked India to join in an international initiative for capacity building in the area cybercrime control to be launched in April next year. The initiative is to be launched at the fourth Global Cyberspace Conference to be hosted by Netherlands during April 2015, Uri Rosenthal, the country’s special envoy for the conference,…
Internet trolls could face up to two years in jail under new laws, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has said. He told the Mail on Sunday quadrupling the current maximum six-month term showed his determination to “take a stand against a baying cyber-mob”. Mr Grayling was speaking days after TV presenter Chloe Madeley suffered online abuse, which Mr…
The U.S. Justice Department is restructuring its national security prosecution team to deal with cyber-attacks and the threat of sensitive technology ending up in the wrong hands, as American business and government agencies face more intrusions. The revamp, led by Assistant Attorney General John Carlin, also marks a recognition that national security threats have broadened…
London: Cybercrime is costing the UK economy 670 million British pounds a year, says government, but true figure is likely to be higher. According to the figures released by Get Safe Online, which is a joint public private internet safety initiative, 51 percent of the population has fallen victim to cases of hacking, online abuse…
Cybercrime is racing ahead of law enforcers’ ability to control it as the “dark web”, or “deep” internet, expands, a former senior civil servant warned. But Sir David Omand, a former director of eavesdropping centre GCHQ and former UK security and intelligence co-ordinator, dismissed suggestions that attempts to curb internet crime were leading to “mass…
Keeping in view increasing numbers of cases of non-compliance of orders, the central information commission is working on an information management system (IMS) to keep a tab on the defaulting public information officer (PIO). The IMS which is awaiting DoPT’s approval would enable officials to prepare list of defaulting PIOs and also status of other orders passed…
The central goverment is working towards the linking of the mobile SIM with Unique Identification (UID) number or Aadhaar card. “The prime minister (Narendra Modi) has directed us to link the SIM of the mobiles with the Unique Id. We are working on that issue and I am sure we will be able to resolve issues,”…
Thousands of protesters in the Hungarian capital Budapest have demanded a halt to a proposed law which would place a tax on internet use. Demonstrators held their mobile phones aloft outside the economy ministry and hurled old computer parts at the gates of the ruling Fidesz party. Campaigners say the legislation is “anti-democratic” and will…