Monthly Archives: January 2013

59% growth in Phishing

According to the estimate of RSA, the total number of phishing attacks in 2012 were around 445,004. This was up 59% from the previous year’s number of 279,580 and estiamted to have created a loss of around US$ 1.5 billion … Continue reading

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Indian Loan Fraudsters swindle UK clients

An Indian Call center in Delhi is reported to have made nearly 1000 calls every day to UK clients enticing them with Bank loan offers and extracting money in the form of advance fee. A ‘conservative estimate’ of the loss … Continue reading

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Employee Fights against Unlawful activities of Employer

An interesting legal suit is being fought in US which has implications for any honest employee who is in a dilemma when he/she observes that the organization in which he/she works is engaged in unlawful activities or trying to cover … Continue reading

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Security Awareness For every Computer buyer

Government of India is suggesting that a security awareness brochure should be mandatorily inserted in every Computer/Mobile product package delivered to a customer. Report Though some have raised “logistic issues”, Naavi.org considers that the proposal is a move in the right direction. … Continue reading

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Is DDOS a legitimate form of Protest?

The Anonymous group which is known for several DDOS attacks around the world has petitioned  Mr Obama that DDOS should be recognized as a legitimate form of protest. The group has claimed that DDOS is not a form of “hacking” … Continue reading

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Delhi Court issues summons to US Companies

Delhi Metropolitan Magistrate Court has issued summons to 11 US based websites including Facebook and Google for promoting enmity and undermining national integrity. The MHA has been asked to serve the notices. Other websites who will be summoned include Orkut, … Continue reading

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