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Hack At Your Own Peril - Pakistan Passes Law to Criminalize Cyber Terrorism With Death Penalty

Adminstrator — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:17:25 +0000

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 [...]

Own a Generic Top Level Domain in Just 1,85,000 USD -ICANN Proposes to Relax Norms

Adminstrator — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:24:31 +0000

Own a Generic Top Level Domain in Just 1,85,000 USD -ICANN Proposes to Relax Norms ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) proposes to open up Generic Top Level Domains such as .com, .org, .net, .info etc. for the general public. Undoubtedly, the same shall be at the high cost of US$ 1,85,000. The proposal is [...]

GoDaddy Accused of Domain Warehousing

Adminstrator — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:23:49 +0000

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 [...]

Blogging website Blogger.com Banned in Turkey

Adminstrator — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:02:58 +0000

Blogging website Blogger.com Banned in Turkey According to a report on CyberlawBlog.or.uk famous blogging site www.blogger.com has been blocked by the order of First Criminal Court of Peace dated 20.10.2008 in Turkey. The reasons for blocking orders are reported to be unknown and the same have been requested by us for further clarification and information to the [...]

American Airlines Sues Yahoo Over Trademark Sponsored Ad-Word Violation

Adminstrator — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:14:03 +0000

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 [...]

.CM to be launched on October 15

Adminstrator — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:23:49 +0000

.CM to be launched on October 15 Netcom is launching Country Level Top Level Domain (ccTLD) of Republic of Cameroon (Dot cm) on 15th October, 2008. The Launch of .cm domains shall be started with the launch of Sunrise Period which gives Trademark Owners first chance to register the company or corporate names before it is made [...]

Phishing Attack on Punjab National Bank Site

Adminstrator — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:42:39 +0000

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 [...]

UGANDA Getting Ready to Combat With Internet Crimes

Adminstrator — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:19:46 +0000

UGANDA Getting Ready to Combat With Internet Crimes Uganda’s draft electronic laws have been approved by Cabinet and are set to be debated before they are passed into law by Parliament. The Ministry of ICT hopes to enact the draft laws 1.The Computer Misuse Bill, 2. Electronic Signatures Bill and 3. Electronic Transactions Bill The purpose of [...]

Another Phishing Attack on HDFC Internet Banking Site

Adminstrator — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:58:04 +0000

Another Phishing Attack on HDFC Internet Banking Site There has been yet another phishing attack on HDFC Internet banking website. We have previously also reported the phishing attack on HDFC servers in our post dated 20th May, 2008. The post can be viewed here. The phishing activity has been reported by our visitor / reader Mr. Someshwar [...]

ICICI Bank’s Phished Page

Adminstrator — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:03:38 +0000

ICICI Bank’s Phished Page I have recently got a mail from my colleagues warning me to be aware of the phished site like these. I hope lot of our readers shall be benefited by the information. By - Gaurav Tandon, Advocate. Technorati Tags: phishing, icici bank, banking frauds