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 10th, 2008 | Countries, Domain Name, Republic of Cameroon, ccTLD | 2 Comments
.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 public on first cum first serve basis.
Technorati Tags: dot cm, .cm, ccTLD, country level Top Level Domains
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
Technorati Tags: phishing, financial frauds, banking, internet frauds, crime
Oct 7th, 2008 | Countries, Cyber Crime, Uganda | No Comments
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 the legislation is to regulate the Information & Communication Technology sector so as to create a level ground and conducive environment for doing business electronically. It will regulate online purchases, mass marketing, financial transactions, online information, entertainment and government services.
Technorati Tags: internet law, cyber crime, information communication technology
