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Andhra Pradesh ranks high in cybercrime against women 07.07.14
HYDERABAD: Cyber crime cases against women in undivided Andhra Pradesh registered a steep increase during 2013, but the conviction rate continued to be abysmally low. According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), undivided AP recorded 225 cases of eve-teasing and harassment, a 55% jump over 2012’s figures. The state comes only second to Maharashtra in […]
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Concealed cyber crime gang uncovered 02.07.14
Targets lucrative industries, hosted on Dropbox. A hacking group that has been operating virtually undetected by anti virus systems since at least 2007 has been exposed by a team of researchers at Cisco. The String of Paerls group – which distributes malware almost entirely undetectable by anti-virus systems and targets high-profile, lucrative industries such as […]
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Australian companies hit by increasing number of cyber attacks 30.06.14
Cyber criminals are wreaking havoc with the IT systems of Australian enterprises, with six in 10 companies admitting they have suffered multiple system crashes lasting up to six hours, as the result of distributed denial-of-service attacks in the past year. DDoS attacks use networks of compromised computers to send millions of requests to online services […]
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NYPD, FBI, MTA create joint cyber crime task force 25.06.14
The FBI, the NYPD and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) have teamed to create a Financial Cyber Crimes Task Force that will operate out of the FBI’s New York field office. According to a press release put out by the FBI, the three agencies signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a task force that […]
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Nigerian Banks Lose Over U.S. $978 Million to Cybercrime 24.06.14
Nigerian banks lost a total of N159 billion (US$ 978 million) to electronic fraud between 2000 and the first quarter of 2013, Nigerian Inter-Bank Settlements Systems (NIBSS Plc) has said. According to Nigeria Communication Week, NIBSS added that the successful switch from magnetic stripe for automated teller machine (ATM) cards in 2009 to a more […]
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Glasgow hosts cybercrime conference 23.06.14
Glasgow is hosting a two-day international conference on cybercrime and computer security. More than 70 delegates from the UK, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US will discuss the online threats such as hacking and grooming. Police Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland and NCC group are among those attending the summit at Strathclyde […]