NEW DELHI: With the internet and social media becoming a way of life, the number of cyber crimes has been witnessing a steady rise over the years. Such crimes went up 20% last year as compared to 2014 while logging an increase of 2,400% over the last decade
Digital India may be in full swing, but the events around it expose the lack of control and carefree nature of social media. BJP with its full might is taking credit for pushing India to the digital age but its vice president in Maharashtra does not seem to understand the way Twitter works as he…
Amit Sahay’s worst nightmare came true when someone hacked into his Facebook account and started posting pornographic content. Amit first warned his friends and then tried changing his password. But when the hacking persisted, he was forced to get a new account. Amit’s ordeal, however, is not an isolated case.
DEHRADUN: An RTI activist’s tweet has done for 10,000 residents of Dudhali village, near Dehradun, what numerous complaints could not. A tweet on the BSNL exchange shutting down in the absence of a power back-up reached Union communication minister Manoj Sinha, who ensured prompt action and the exchange coming back to life.
Chandigarh: With jailed gangsters having a free run with posts on social media and reports of prisons being dens of drugs and crime, the Punjab Police on Sunday conducted a state-wide “major search operation” in various jails leading to the “recovery of number of mobile phones, SIM cards besides tablets being used as drugs by…
New Delhi: Spurred by the realisation that young minds are being radicalised online, the Delhi Police’s Special Cell is in the process of constituting a “social media monitoring cell” to keep tabs on impressionable youth in the capital. A brainchild of the police commissioner, it will operate within the Special Cell and include cyber experts…
Usually, it is the police’s job to find criminals. But in this case, some of Punjab’s most wanted men are vying to be ‘caught’ — for the same crime. It all started with a post on Facebook by Vicky Gounder, a member of the ‘Shera Khuban gang’, claiming that he had killed Jaswinder Singh alias…
Twitter has been long missing tools to deal with multiple abusive tweets but the social media company has finally announced updates for iOS, Android and desktop users that promise to take care of the problem. Earlier, users had to flag off individual tweets to Twitter’s safety team to report abuse online. The new updates, in…
New Delhi: Nowadays, with the increasing use of Internet, many people have become avid social media users. Some of them have become so addicted that they often update and post every minute detail of their life on the social media. But we often tend to forget that social media is unsafe with the increasing cases…
On Thursday night, a mob carrying iron rods descended on the home of a 40-year-old dentist in West Delhi’s Vikaspuri and dragged him out of his house as his horrified son and wife watched helplessly. As the men rained blows on Dr Pankaj Narang, his family members appealed to their neighbours for help. But by…