India ranked 18 out of 24 countries, falling from rank 17 in the same study conducted three-years ago. BSA is a non-profit which counts Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Cisco and IBM as members. “The finding is a sign that the legal and regulatory environment for cloud computing in India is not keeping pace with cloud innovation,”…
Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), Volume 21, reveals an organisational shift by cyber criminals: They are adopting corporate best practices and establishing professional businesses in order to increase the efficiency of their attacks against enterprises and consumers. This new class of professional cyber criminal spans the entire ecosystem of attackers, extending the reach of…
Kohima, April 20 (MExN): Kohima District Legal Services Authority organised a legal awareness programme at Mount Hermon Hr. Sec. School, Kohima on April 19 with Akumla Longchari, Thejapfutuo Khezhie, and Wapangienla Kichu, Panel Lawyers as resource persons. Akumla Longchari spoke on “Online violence and cyber crime”, where she briefed the students that technology plays an…
PwC’s Global Economic Crime Survey 2016 states that one in every four organisations in India are impacted by economic crime. While economic crime is on a decline across the world, the same cannot be said about India because the country is slightly behind the curve in adopting global best practices in terms of rules and…
The incidence of ATM, credit, debit card and net banking-related fraud has gone up by more than 35 percent between 2012-13 and 2015-16 in India, according to country’s federal bank Reserve Bank of India (RBI). According to RBI data, 8,765 cases were reported by banks in 2012-13 and the corresponding figures for subsequent three years…
Cuttack: Police stations will have to register complaints related to cyber crime reported from their jurisdiction. “They are refusing to register cyber crime cases on the ground that they lack the technical knowledge and expertise to probe such cases and refer it to the Cyber police station in Cuttack. This will not be tolerated any…
Anjuna police have received a complaint from a private bank that some unidentified persons stole automated teller machine (ATM) card data by installing a skimmer at an ATM in Siolim and transferred 1 lakh online from the account. Anjuna police station received a complaint stating that four clients’ ATM data was stolen using a skimmer…
With all the convenience and connectivity that the internet offers, it also brings risks. Notions about cyber security often draw up images of a villainous looking individual attempting to wreak havoc across commercial establishments and high value targets. Cyber security experts state that the nature of the game has changed and personal data thefts are…
The Cyber Crime Police arrested two persons from Uttar Pradesh for allegedly hacking the website and email accounts of Mee Seva centre and siphoning off over `13 lakh. The arrested include Mohd. Khasim Khan (40), and Himanshu Shekhar Singh alias Rinku Singh (34), both natives of Uttar Pradesh. The duo hacked the Mee Seva website…
A 20 year old student was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly tweeting that he would kill around 3000 Muslims. Amitesh Singh, a first-year civil engineering student in Pune based college, on May 2 had posted this hateful message on his twitter account. The post drew attention after which several Muslims urged the police to take…