Pune Student held for posting girl's obsece profile on orkut

DASHMIT Singh Chawla alias Niki, one of the accused arrested in the rave party case and let out on bail was re-arrested on Tuesday by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) and cyber-cell of the city police on charges of posting a lurid profile of a girl who had spurned his advances.

A few days ago, Dashmit had posted the profile of the girl after she refused his proposal, threatened her over phone for the same.

Later, a team of EOW officials picked up Chawla from his residence at Kondhwa and a complaint under section 67 of the Information Technology Act has been registered against him at the Hinjewadi police station.

DCP (EOW and cyber Cell) Sunil Phulari said: "Dashmit is a management student of a city college and hails from Raipur. He was trying to entice the girl for some time. He threatened her with dire consequences when she resisted his advances. Later, he posted an obscene profile of her on the Orkut portal along with her cell number."

Phulari added that Dashmit is a notorious character known for a flashy lifestyle and lavish cars. Meanwhile, the DCP (EOW) has appealed to the citizens to come forth and register their complaints in connection with cyber crimes either with the cyber cell at the city police commissionerate or call 26124452.

Link http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=228972

Online child pornography getting brutal

CHILD PORNOGRAPHY on the internet is becoming more brutal and graphic, and the number of images depicting violent abuse has risen fourfold since 2003, according to an internet watchdog report published on tuesday.

The British-based internet watch Foundation said in its annual review that it received nearly 32000 reports of potentially illegal content on its hot line last year; marking a 34 per cent increase from the previous year.

"Although there is a volume issue, the worrying issue is the severity and gravity of the images is increasing," said the foundation's chife executive, peter robbins. "We're talking about prepubescent children being raped."

The foundation identified about 10700 individual internet addressess on 3000 sites containing child pornography content.

About 80 per cent of the chilfdren in the abusive images are female, and 91 per cent appear to be children under the age of 12, it said.

more than three in five child pornography websites were hosted in the US, while nearly a third were based in Russia.

The US National Center for missing and exploited children last year completed a pilot programme in partnership with financial institutions aimed at cutting off child pornography websites' revenues.

They identified sites that accepted credit card payments, then contacted individual banks to stop the flow of money to the sites. the center also operates a child sexual abuse hotline.

More corporate frauds near the corner room

Profile of a Fraudster

36 per cent of fraudsters belong to the finance department.

60 per cent of fraudsters are members of top management.

15 per cent of fraudsters are women.

70 per cent of fraudsters belong to the 36-55 year age group.

SOFTWARE TOOLS DEVELOPED BY C-DAC TO COMBAT CYBER CRIMES

On 6th march 2007

Resource Centre for Cyber Forensics, set up by the Department of Information Technology (DIT) at C-DAC, Thiruvananthapuram has developed “CyberCheck Suite Version 3.0” tools for cyber forensics. The indigenously developed software product was released by Shri Dayanidhi Maran, Minister of Communications & Information Technology, here today in the presence of Shri P.C. Haldar, Director Intelligence Bureau and senior officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation & Delhi Police besides the officers from DIT.

With this development, self-reliance in the technologies utilized for combating cyber crimes has been achieved. The tools developed by C-DAC have been very exhaustively evaluated by leading Law Enforcement Agencies in India like Directorate of Forensic Science Laboratories, Central Bureau of Investigation, National Police Academy and Intelligence Bureau. They have all certified that the indigenously developed tools of C-DAC are most appropriate for carrying out cyber forensics by all Law Enforcement Agencies in India.

Speaking on the occasion Shri Maran said that combating cyber crimes was very challenging and demanding with new technologies and new modus operandi keep cropping up. Therefore it has become imperative to keep the momentum going, he said. The Government is committed to eradicating cyber crimes and would do utmost to support new initiatives and developments for preventing the crimes. In order to deal with the cyber crime matters, the Minister said that a major training programme is proposed for training the law enforcement agencies, forensic labs and judiciary on the procedures and methodologies of collecting, analyzing and presenting the digital devices.

Happiness is an Indian IT worker

Nearly a third of Indian information technology workers are highly satisfied with their job-well above the average for other Indian workers, says a CyberMedia Dice-TNS survey of IT professionals.

70 pc of IT workers surveyed had been promoted in the last year.

60 pc of IT workers surveyed still kept their CVs posted on the internet even when satisfied with their jobs.

9 out of 10 Indian IT professionals say their ideal employer would be a foreign or Indian multinational software firm.

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THE WORLD'S LARGEST AND MOST VIBRANT DEMOCRACY IS YET TO FULLY COMPREHEND THE POTENTIAL OF THE INTERNET IN INSPIRING AND ENGAGING THE VOTERS IN A SOCIAL DISCOURSE

INDIA HAS THE WORLD'S FOURTH LARGEST CYBER POPULATION, BUT ONLY 19 PERCENT OF ITS POLITICAL PARTIES HAVE AN ONLINE PRESENCE

Eye Spy

MMS returns And this time innocent shoppers are the target

Shoopers beware. Buzz has it that there is an eye on you even in those trial rooms. That is, if a recent MMS is to be believed. This 42-second MMS clip is of a girl supposedly in the changing room of a leading retail chain. The explicit footage shows her trying on a pair of troisers. The retail chain in question said that it was "investigating the matter and would take necessary action to address this issue".

When contacted ACP S D Mishra, of the Cyber Cell said he was unaware of this particular incident. "I don't think we've received any such complaints till now", said Mishra. What about the Punishment? so far as this case is concerned he says, "We can't tell you what action we're going to take till we see the clip".

The Net spreads across Asia

Asia is witnessing explosive Internet growth as developing and less-developed countries log on to the revolution. Three and four-digit growth in several countries means the emergence of large markets in the continent.

Countries-Number of users(in millions)-Penetration(% of population)-Usage growth(2000-2007)

Bangladesh--4.7--0.3%--270.0%

China--137--10.4%--508.9%

India--40--3.5%--700.0%

Indonesia--18--8.0%--800.0%

Japan--86.3--67.1%--83.3%

Malaysia--13.5--47.8%--265.6%

Pakistan--12.0--7.2%--8861.9%

Philippines--7.8--9.0%--291.0%

(Figures are till March 10,2007)

Best e-governance State 2000

RANKING

Ranking of states on the perceived improvement in the delivery of government services through e-governance initiatives

Kerala - 1
Delhi - 2
Gujarat - 3
Madhya Pradesh - 4
Goa - 5
Karnataka - 6
Maharashtra - 7
Tamil Nadu - 7
Chhattisgarh - 8
Andhra Pradesh - 8
Uttar Pradesh - 9
Uttaranchal - 10
Haryana - 11
West Bengal - 11
Punjab - 12
Orissa - 13
Rajasthan - 14