The Pune police on Tuesday inaugurated the Social Media Lab that will help monitor issues related unlawful practices and activities occurring taking place on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube among other sites as well as other websites on the internet. The police have termed the lab as an important instrument step that…
Card cloning, OTP (one time password) fraud, phishing, spoofing, stalking, intrusion and non-delivery of merchandise are some of the cybercrime related complaints law enforcement agencies in the state have received in the past few years. Latest challenge to cyber police is dealing with organised cybercrime. In November last year, an organised credit/debit card cloning gang…
Wanted by CBI for making obscene clip, a graduate was arrested from Muzaffarnagar on Sunday by UP Special Task Force (STF). Reward of Rs 1 lakh had been announced on the graduate identified as 24-year-old Sumit by CBI last year. Sharing the details, SSP STF Amit Pathak said that Sumit and five more persons were…
Gaurav, a finance manager in a multinational company, rose to attention one Monday morning as he received an email from *Shephali, the company’s chief financial officer (CFO). The email directed him to urgently make a payment of $10,476 toward an attached invoice to a Cyprus-based vendor. Gaurav instantly initiated the process, bypassing some of the…
The rise in number of complaints about loss of money to fraudulent transactions is due to the negligence of both consumers and banks, says Dr Nagarathna, coordinator of Advanced Centre for Research, Development and Training in Cyber Laws and Forensics, National Law School of India University. Even High Court judges and policemen have been victims…
E-wallets, a facility introduced by banks to park money for commercial transactions, is now the new target for cyber criminals. In the recent months, at least five fresh cases involving transfer of fraudulent money to e-wallets having been registered by Mumbai police. An e-wallet user doesn’t need to furnish debit or credit card details every…
Corporate spend on cyber security is set to rise with improving awareness of cyber crime and data protection. Research firm Ernst and Young in its global information security survey 2015 has estimated a 25 per cent increase in funding by the companies to protect their organisation in line with the management’s risk tolerance policy. The…
The state of cyber security in India is reaching critical levels, with acts of cybercrime continuously rising. An India specific report by Norton by Symantec revealed that 113 million users are affected by some form of online attack in 2015. 16,000 people spend as many as 30 hours dealing with the fallout of cybercrimes. Ritesh…