Nov 8th, 2008 | Cyber Crime, Cyber Security, E-Terrorism, Internet Abuse, Pakistan | No Comments
Hack At Your Own Peril - Pakistan Passes Law to Criminalize Cyber Terrorism With Death Penalty
Pakistan President, Asif Ali Zardari signed The Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance making it a law to counter internet crimes. The Ordinance shall have retrospective effect from 29th Septamber, 2008.
The Ordinance defines internet crime done to cause death shall be punishable with capital punishment.
The ordinance applies to “any person, group or organization who, with terroristic intent utilizes, accesses or causes to be accessed a computer or computer network or electronic system or electronic device or by any available means, and thereby knowingly engages in or attempts to engage in a terroristic act.”
It also states that cyber terrorism shall be considered
(a) altering by addition, deletion, or change or attempting to alter information that may result in the imminent injury, sickness, or death to any segment of the population;
(b) transmission or attempted transmission of a harmful program with the purpose of substantially disrupting or disabling any computer network operated by the Government or any public entity;
(c) aiding the commission of or attempting to aid the commission of an act of violence against the sovereignty of Pakistan, whether or not the commission of such act of violence is actually completed; or
(d) stealing or copying, or attempting to steal or copy, or secure classified information or data necessary to manufacture any form of chemical, biological or nuclear weapon, or any other weapon of mass destruction.
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Oct 26th, 2008 | Domain Name, Internet Abuse | No Comments
GoDaddy Accused of Domain Warehousing
Go Daddy, an Accredited Registrar of ICANN has been reportedly being indulged in a practice of Domain Warehousing. The news has been reported by Cnet News.
Domain Warehousing is a practice wherein Registrar registers the domain while users are searching for Domain Names with an intent to earn profits from the perspective buyer. To learn more about Domain Warehousing you can refer to this link.
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Oct 25th, 2008 | AdWords, Internet Abuse, Yahoo | No Comments
American Airlines Sues Yahoo Over Trademark Sponsored Ad-Word Violation
The second suit in the year, American Airlines sues Yahoo! this time over alleged trademark violation through its Ad-Word program.
The program allows its advertisers to buy keywords and display Ads in the sponsored listing on the search engine.
American Airlines had sued Google earlier this year which was settled by the company.
The airline company alleged that advertisers are purchasing “American Airlines” as a keyword to display their Ads on the sponsored listing encashing the goodwill of the company’s reputation of the mark. The company also alleged that the advertisers are driving away traffic that is intended to be for American airlines website.
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Oct 7th, 2008 | Cyber Crime, India, Internet Abuse, Phishing | No Comments
Phishing Attack on Punjab National Bank Site
There has been alarming rise in the phishing incidents in the past month on all major financial institution internet sites.
We have regularly been updating our visitors about these mails.We also thank our readers/visitors to share such incidents with us and taking an active part in combating phishing by making public aware of these mails.
Here is an another email alleged to be sent by Punjab National Bank to its users which has been sent to us by our visitor Mr. Maninder Singh, a techie by profession who runs a successful websites such as www.123oye.com and www.cybersmart.in.
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 8:30 AM
Subject: Update
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