International Conference on Cybercrime organised by ASSOCHAM and the Council of Europe – New Delhi, India – The Oberoi – 10th September 2007.
Team Cybersmart.in was present there
October 31, 2007
October 29, 2007
Fall of Internet?
Fall of Internet?
The internet in its current form is unsupportable and dangerous, according to the man that led its inception.
Dr Larry Roberts led the team that designed and developed the web’s precursor, Arpanet, and is now chief executive of router vendor Anagran.
Dr Roberts warned that poor programming means that the internet is growing too fast for network infrastructure to cope. In addition, security is weaker than it should be because of a lack of development within the TCP/IP standard.
Dr Roberts maintained that the industry needs to concentrate on sending prioritised flows of data traffic rather than sending packets individually.
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October 21, 2007
Computer System Hacking by Woman
Computer System Hacking by Woman
A 50-year-old Philadelphia woman is facing charges that she hacked into the computer system that controls the voice mailboxes at a Massachusetts-based personal ads company.
Barbara Denenburg is also charged with making death threats against a Massachusetts woman she met through the service, federal prosecutors said yesterday in a written statement.
The company, which prosecutors did not identify in the statement, places personal ads in newspapers throughout the country. To respond to an ad, a reader calls a phone number at the company and leaves a voice mail message for the person who placed the ad.
Denenburg, beginning in June, began gaining access to the voice mail computer system. She was eventually able to get into more than 200 voice mailboxes, changing the passwords for more than 40 boxes and changing the greetings message for at least 25, prosecutors alleged.
Denenburg faces charges of mailing threatening communications, access device fraud, and violations of of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, prosecutors said.
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October 18, 2007
Travel Agents Kolkata and Mumbai Cyber Crime Cell
Travel Agents Kolkata and Mumbai Cyber Crime Cell
The Cyber Crime Cell of the Mumbai Crime Branch on Tuesday arrested a travel agent from Kolkata for sending e-mails threatening to blow up BSE and NSE buildings within 48 hours on October 15. The three threat mails, sent through the e-mail ID of abdul.rashman@yahoo.co.in, later turned out to be a hoax.
The accused, Dinesh Kumar Gupta, who had claimed to be an ISI agent in the mail, was brought to the city on Wednesday after he was arrested from his residence in Kolkata.
According to the police, Gupta, a class XII passout, had lost around Rs 27,000 in the last couple of weeks in his stock dealings. He wanted the prices to fall and so he hatched the plan to create panic in the market, the police said.
The mails were addressed to Suprabhat Lala, assistant vice president, NSE, at Bandra Kurla Complex.
According to the police, a team was dispatched to Kolkata where they traced the source of the e-mail to B C Shaw & Co Cyber Café. After going through the mandatory cyber café register book, they zeroed in on the name of one Munnabhai but later found out that it was actually an alias used by Gupta. On Tuesday, the officials of the Cyber Crime Cell arrested Gupta from his residence, the police said.
Gupta has been booked under Section 506 (2) (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code. The police are also looking at other provisions under the Information Technology Act that would be applicable in the case.
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October 14, 2007
Encrypt Votes and Swiss National Elections
Encrypt Votes and Swiss National Elections
A new “unbreakable” encryption method will be keep votes safe for citizens in the Swiss canton of Geneva in the country’s upcoming national elections.
The city-state will use individual particles of light – or quantum technology – to encrypt election results as they are sent to the capital.
The technology would ensure the data cannot be intercepted or tampered with.
It is the first time the technology will be used outside of a laboratory to secure a computer network anywhere in the world
The system would be secure and pave the way for others, such as banks, who place great value on protecting critical data.
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October 10, 2007
School Boy Hacker and Pornography
School Boy Hacker and Pornography
THE 16-year-old school boy who cracked the Government’s $80 million porn filter in August, declaring it a waste of money, has done it again.
This time he has posted a YouTube video handbook on his blog site instructing kids on how to hack around “all” the Federal Government’s filters.
The video shows how to use sophisticated hacking tools to get into Windows program to delete the administrators’ password files and get around porn filters.
Filter provider Optenet last night claimed that while it was correct hackers had found a way to get around the filters, it could only be done for a short time and filters had not been compromised.
The managing director of Optenet, said the guide showed how to delete administrator’s passwords but as soon as parents tried to log back on, they would know the PC was compromised.
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October 5, 2007
China Olympics Website Cloned
China Olympics Website Cloned
BEIJING – A Chinese man who cloned an Olympics Web site and made around $50,000 from fake prize draws has been arrested by police in the island province of Hainan, state media reported.
Liao Peigui, a 20-year-old computer engineer in Danzhou city had persuaded his victims to transfer 10 to 20 percent of the value of their “prize” into a bank account he had opened.
His copy of official Web site www.beijing2008.cn, which currently gets more than 1 million visits a day, netted Liao a suspected 400,000 yuan ($53,300), the Xinhua agency said in report late on Sunday.
In the summer, Beijing ran a special campaign to root out street peddlers selling fake Olympic products. ($1=7.504 Yuan)
More Sports Articles and Information at Games Delhi.com
Yahoo email and eBay, Paypal
Yahoo email and eBay, Paypal
Yahoo upgraded its system on Thursday in the US with technology — dubbed “DomainKeys” — designed to block spam and other fraudulent e-mails that look like they come from eBay and PayPal but don’t.
The system works by verifying the domain of the sender of the e-mail, allowing ISPs to block messages they deem illegitimate.
The upgrade is expected to be accomplished globally over the next several weeks.
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