Two Nigerians, Salestine Baneme, 32, and Lona Thomas, 32, have been arrested in the Indian city of Ahmedabad by officials. Both happen to be residents of Malavianagar of New Delhi and were arrested for blackmailing two women registered on a matrimonial website to pay them a huge sum of money. The accused had threatened the women that they would morph their pictures…
A sum of Rs 50,000 was fraudulently withdrawn from the net-banking account of a state-government employee in May this year.His mistake was that he revealed the One Time Password (OTP) he received on his registered mobile number when requested by a telephone caller pretending to be the bank’s customer care official.
A 32-year-old woman from Juhu has filed an FIR with the Juhu police station against four people who had sent obscene messages to her Facebook inbox. While the messages had been sent in April, Tara Kaushal only just saw them as they had been saved in the rarely-seen ‘other’ folder on her Facebook page. Read…
As per an official estimate, there has been an almost 40 percent year-over-year increase in cyber crimes registered in India during the past two-three years. With the aim of eradicating child pornography and keep online trolling in check, the Home Ministry is setting up a new cyber-control hub. The Rs 400-crore state-of-the-art center, Indian Cyber…
Three men were arrested on Monday for spoofing film producer Ronnie Screwvala’s email and siphoning off Rs 34 lakh from the accounts of Swades, an NGO that he and his wife Zarine run. With the arrests made from Malad and Nallasopara, cops believe, they have busted an inter-state gang involved in spoof emailing. The investigating…
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday admitted that rate of conviction of those accused of committing cyber crimes is low, but said it is taking steps to fight the threat posed by such offences to national security.
A team comprising of Indian-origin researchers has found cybersecurity risks in 3D printing by examining two aspects — printing orientation and insertion of fine defects.
New Delhi, July 17 (IANS) A 23-year-old techie has been arrested for hacking Air India‘s Frequent Flyer member accounts and using them to book tickets sold to several travel agents, Delhi Police said on Sunday.
The accused, Anitesh Giri Goswami, a BCA graduate from Pune, was arrested from Jaipur on Friday.
Pune: The cyber crime cell of the Pune police on Saturday busted yet another fake call centre based in Delhi following the arrest of two men who allegedly ran it. The suspects, Sonu Singh Ramesh Singh (25) of Haryana and Raman Negi (21) of New Delhi, ran the call centre in the name of a…
Guwahati, May 10: Police summoned budding Assamese singer Bhrigu Kashyap here today for questioning following an FIR lodged by popular singer Priyanka Bharali. She alleged that Kashyap had uploaded their “intimate pictures” on social media recently. Fearing arrest, Kashyap moved a court here today and was granted interim bail. The court asked Kashyap to appear…