By Ashwani Mishra Robert Alan Soloway, known as the Spam King, was indicted last month by a Seattle (US) jury on charges of fraud, money laundering and identity theft. As per reports, he siphoned out about US $773,000 through spamming-related activities. A joint investigation led by the Washington State Attorney General’s Office, FBI, Federal Trade […]

NEW DELHI, Dec 5 (Agencies): Social networking sites are fast becoming a hotspot for cyber criminals. From morphed pictures to defamatory comments, police officials have their hands full with complaints from users. Many people have already become victims of obscenity on social networking websites. The Delhi police has recorded over 200 complaints in the past […]

New Delhi: Ghaziabad resident Naresh Verma wasn’t worried when he had to rush to the hospital for an emergency even though he was short on fuel and cash. Thanks to his credit card.Verma doesn’t hesitate in paying his bills by his card, but the exercise is a strict no-no for another card user. “One should […]

With over 77 per cent cyber crimes targeted at corporates, Web 2.0 increases the quantum of exposure and damage done The Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Crime Branch, Delhi Police, unearthed a major phishing scam involving fake emails and websites of UTI Bank. An analysis of the accounts of the four arrested Nigerian nationals indicated financial […]

Electronic documents need to be signed to assure recipients of their authenticity, and digital signatures fulfil this need. Dominic K reports (Oct 2006 issue) Digital signatures have been in use for quite a while to authenticate various e-commerce and m-commerce transactions. Today, the processes of creating and verifying a digital signature provide a high level […]

New Delhi: A pen drive is the culprit and call centre employees provided personal and confidential information,’ says a story to be aired on Channel 4 on Thursday. Pat comes the BPO industry in India’s reply to the story – ‘Impossible’.Suddenly everybody wants to know exactly how secure data is in Indian BPOs. Members of […]