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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 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 [...]
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 Act. While the post was focused on the changes and how it could affect the privacy of [...]
‘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 using fake e-mails to gain new users.
The charges claims that Tagged sent 60 million e-mails from April through June, to people [...]
Facebook Looks to Stop the Spam
How many of you are on Facebook and are tired of application request? Well, evidently a lot of Facebook users are.
Here’s a couple of screenshots of groups who are overtly pissed.
Facebook listened to it’s users and created an ‘ignore all’ button for ignoring multiple requests. It’s now looking at ways to make sure that [...]
China, US – 2 Of the Highest Sources of Traffic Attack: Akamai Report
The Akamai report for “State of the Internet” (Q1 – 2008). The report (pdf – registration required) looks mostly at data on the origins of attack traffic, network outages and de-peering events, as well as a look at broadband connectivity by geography.
India’s contribution to global attack traffic: India contributes 2.53% to global attack traffic and ranks among the [...]
Spam Gets Older. Turns 30 On May 2nd!
According to a Wikipedia entry following RSS Awareness Day, It is the 30th birthday of annoying SPAM. As spam turns 30 on May 2nd I would like to share with you how it all started. Way back in May 1978, Kurt Kleiner of NewScientistTech reminds us that it was Gary Thuerk, a marketer at [...]
India Spamming – Almost 76% Mails From India Are Spams
India’s contribution towards spamming is increasing. Here are the stats – 76 per cent of e-mails originating from India are almost spams. Compared with top 25 spam producing nations India’s contribution is only 1% so far, but the figures aren’t good as they are rising at a rapid speed. As the internet population in India [...]