India ranked fourth among countries targeted by phishing attacks and accounted for 8 % of the total phishing volume in April,says RSA, the security division of EMCndings in its May 2013 Fraud Report.  US topped the list of nations in terms of the total phishing attack volume, with a share of 46 %. The UK accounted for 11 percent of that volume while 48 other countries put together accounted for...

Telugu movie Brindavanam is the latest Indian movie to be used phishers to dupe people into parting with their personal details. Symantec has informed us that phishers are now using the Brindavanam content (images and movie plot) to target gullible people. The thumbnail shows an image of a musical number and asks users to login to watch the video. After you put in the login information you are directed...

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 a long time since the advent of the Internet but no one has come close to removing this threat and annoyance from the web in its entirety. Cyber Criminals always seem to be one step ahead. Even Google...

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 attacks with a lot of e-mail scams thrown in. Our burgeoning Internet population might be a good thing towards India’s growth towards becoming an Internet economy but this user-base is also a huge...

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 an Indian talking on the phone when they call customer support. There is some latest development that puts India in a bad light globally. While the internet penetration in India is low and total...

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 people getting hooked on to the internet but not being fully aware of phishing. A recent news about phishing is about a government employee in Coimbatore who received an email from an unknown account...

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 browser on Earth”. The major improvements from the version of 10.54 are: • Opera 10.6 is the first stable version of a browser that lets you play WebM videos. • Opera has added support for many...

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 based on tracking of downloading IP-addresses on P2P networks. India still ranks fourth among the largest downloaders of all times. Compared to the internet penetration in India, these figures are completely...

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 Act. While the post was focused on the changes and how it could affect the privacy of the individual, there are several positive impacts to the Act as well. The IT Act of 2000, was modified in December...

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 didn’t strike me as bad, except if I put the TLDs (Search for Top Level Domains on Google) for a couple next to them. Anyway, these are some of the names...