Online Romeo Gets Busted by Police

A 27-year-old Indian man who posed on social-networking sites as a bank manager and scammed women out of money has been arrested for his transgressions, according to Times of India.

Earlier this week, the Chennai cyber crime police in India arrested Saifuddin, who turned out to be a former bank worker. Authorities were able to nap the suspect after setting up a social-networking account and interacting with him.

“We…

Students’ Explanation for Sexting Teacher? It Was ‘Just for Fun’

A school teacher in India who received pornographic text messages in the middle of the night was surprised to learn the senders were his own students, The Times of India reports.

It was around midnight last Friday the teacher of a school in Calcutta received a sexually explicit clip, sent via MMS. He tried to identify the sender, but did not recognize the number. He then kept receiving…

97% of Cyber Crime Unreported in India

Police is India say 97 percent of cyber crime remain unreported in Gurgaon, a city located less than 20 miles from New Delhi, and representatives from industry are joining forces with law enforcement to solve the problem, Times of India reports.

Last week, Gurgaon-based IT and business process outsourcing industry met Joint Commissioner…

India to Develop Proprietary Hacker-Safe Systems

The Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation is developing a proprietary operating system to protect its sensitive data from cyber attacks and hackers, according to Indo-Asian News Service.

“We initiated the indigenous computing project in September and a road map is being drawn to implement the programme,” DRDO Director…

Europe Crowned New King of Spam

Europe is now the top spam-producing country in the world, bypassing North and South Americas, and Asia-Pacific, according to the Trend Micro semi-annual 2010 threat report.

Spam continued to grow between January and June 2010, stalling briefly during April. Despite common perception, porn consists of only 4 percent of all spam. Commercial, scams-based and health/medical categories comprise 65 percent of the spam generated…

Chile Embarks on Mission to Enter US IT Market

Chile wants to be a key supplier of IT and related services to the U.S. market, but faces the dilemma of not having enough trained people required to compete with the large software and services operations in India and the Philippines, according…

Man Cyber-Bullies Sister-in-Law after Being Rejected

A 35-year-old bank official was arrested in India after allegedly sending defamatory, anonymous emails to his sister-in-law’s coworkers after she rejected his advances.

The Telegraph reports that Adhiraj Roy Choudhuri was taken into custody after investigators tracked him down, using the records of a cyber cafe from where he had allegedly sent the emails. During interrogation, Choudhuri admitted his ego had been bruised when …

India Could Face Onslaught of Pakistani Hackers, Say Intelligence Officials

Already reeling from repeated cyber attacks by sophisticated Chinese cyber criminals, sensitive Indian departments could be up against a blitz of Pakistani hackers.

According to Times of India, the Indian government has cautioned defense services, financial institutions, Internet service providers and private-sector businesses of possible cyber attack by Pakistani hacker groups. Intelligence agencies recently issued a…

Police Extend Detention of Computer Scientist

Police authorities in India have announced plans to extend the detention of a computer scientist arrested earlier who pointed to security flaws in an electronic voting system.

A metropolitan court magistrate in Mumbai denied a motion to to release Hari Prasad on bail prior to Aug. 28. Prasad was arrested when he refused to divulge the source who gave him an electronic voting machine to use in his…

Police Arrest Computer Scientist for Pointing to Security Holes

Police in India have arrested a computer scientist after he refused to provide details regarding where he acquired an electronic voting machine a group of researchers used to find holes in the country’s electronic voting system.

Hari Prasad, managing director of Netindia LTD, was raided by police over the weekend. The arrests come after the publication of research in April regarding the vulnerability of the electronic voting machines…