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Banks & Internet Companies Are Teaming Up Against Spam. Finally!

Spammers are the party-poopers when it comes to the Internet. Yes, the web helps us in discovering new information, connecting with other people and increasing our productivity. This has been going for...
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Cyber Crime Is Becoming A Threat In India. A Major Cause For Concern?

India’s Internet users have shot up to 100 million and so has the risk of getting  attacked by Cyber crime. The world of Cyber crime is diverse and ranges from illegally accessing computers to phishing...
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India Number Two In Internet Spammers

There is always something about us Indians that makes the world take notice. Often, in the wrong sense. While you have some people appreciating the work we do, others are just plainly pissed off at hearing...
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Phishing Forces RBI To Seek CBI Help

You would probably have heard the word phishing in relation to cyber crime. It has been actively used by cyber criminals trying to dupe people of their money. This menace has been increasing with more...
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Opera 10.60 Released : Claimed as the World’s Fastest Stable Browser!

The Norwegian software firm Opera Software has released the final version of its 10.60 browser. It is claimed to be 50 per cent quicker than its previous release, and is also touted to be the “fastest...
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India Tops Internet Piracy List Despite Low Internet Penetration, Kolkata Police Cyber Crime Website To Be Launched

Illegal Peer-to-Peer activities galore as India ranks 8th in the world with the highest level of film piracy of any English-speaking country, finds a Motion Picture Association (MPA) and Dtechnet study...
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Punishment For Cyber Crime – Life Imprisonment, Facebook Makes Millions In Compensation

At WATBlog, we’ve commented quite a few times on cyber crime and how the fast changing face of the Internet has a lost of scope for misuse. A while back, we covered the amendments made to the IT...
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30 Sites You Wouldn’t Want to Go to: Norton Releases List of Most Dangerous Websites

It would have helped a lot if you hadn’t read the title already, but if I type out some names, would it strike as stuff that might potentially harm your computer? divineenterprises fantasticfilms hdvideoforums magic4you pronline They...
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‘Tagged.com’ To Be Sued – A Call For Moral Standards For SNS?

Mid-level social networking sites were always criticized for their use of lewd methods to target users. Now it seems that the State of New York plans to sue the social-networking site Tagged.com for allegedly...
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Details Of A ‘Major’ Flaw In Internet Posted Online, Accidentally

A few days back, while surfing, I came across this piece of article that discussed how a researcher named Dan Kaminsky has figured out a flaw in the basic architecture of the Internet. The flaw,...
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‘Vishing’ – Latest Threat to Mobile Subscribers – Your Voice Aids Phishing, Now

  As the number of Internet users in India is rapidly increasing, the chances of becoming a victim of phishing attacks increases too. It comes as no surprise that India ranks third among countries...
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Did You Pledge For FireFox 3 World Record?

Breaking a World Record might be hard only if you are not some one like Firefox. Few days back they had released RC 1 of FF3 for public testing. And now Firefox is ready to set a new world record for “the...
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Asian School of Cyber Laws Launches Search Engine For Cyber Crime

We have been hearing lot about cyber crimes. Lots of developments have been happening in the cyber security domain. Even a toll free number was recently launched by Agape India to combat cyber crime. These...
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Toll Free Number Launched to Combat Cyber Crime!

Cyber Crime is all over the internet space, India ranks 3rd in Phishing. To fight against Cyber Crime Agape India, a computer and mobile forensic specialist has decided to launch a special toll free...
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India ranks 3rd for phishing! (No its not fishing!)

In my last article i had explained what phishing was and how a fake UTI Bank page was online inorder to extract account username and password from innocent users and then rob their bank accounts. Now here...
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EXCLUSIVE: Beware of Fake UTI Bank page online

DISCLAIMER: Before you read this you must understand that WATblog is not responsible for the websites and their content to whom we have links to. Please do not submit any information to such...
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