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  • Cyber security attack: serious threat compounded by lack of individuals’ online security

    Bangalore: The major computer virus that could give hackers access to sensitive information is a serious threat, as hundreds of thousands of people have little or no security software, according to the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Hugh Boyes, the IET’s cyber security lead said: “This is a very serious threat compounded by the […]

    4 accused including a cop arrested in gangrape case in Badaun

      Four accused including a cop were arrested in a gangrape case involving two minors in Badaun, Uttar pradesh. Two teenage dalit cousins were allegedly gangraped and murdered with their bodies found hanging from a tree in Katra village. The two girls, who were cousins and aged 14 and 15 years, went missing from their […]

    CBI to form SIT for probing Saradha scam

    The CBI will form a Special Investigation Team (SIT) soon to probe the Saradha chit fund scam in which investors in West Bengal, Odisha and Assam were allegedly duped of 10,000 crore rupees. CBI Director Ranjit Sinha said in New Delhi today, SIT will be set up as soon as the legalities in the case […]

    Over 69 Percent of Targeted Attacks in India Focus on Large Enterprises

    Chennai: Symantec Corp.’s Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), Volume 19, shows- ·         A significant shift in cybercriminal behavior, revealing the bad guys are plotting for months before pulling off huge heists – instead of executing quick hits with smaller rewards. ·         Attackers are unrelenting in their focus on large enterprises with over 69 percent or […]

    Girl gang raped in Tripura, one held

    By- Nabendu Bhattacharjee Agartala  (Hindusthan  Samachar):  The State has been ashamed by yet another gang rape incident. The West Agartala Women Police arrested one of three culprits on Thursday  over complaints of rape of a 20-year- old girl at TV Tower near AD Nagar  on Wednesday  night. The victims aged 20, a resident of  Birchandra Manu, […]

    Malware: Majority of njRAT C&C servers are found in the Middle East and North Africa – Symantec

    Dubai: Symantec (http://www.symantec.com)  has observed the growth of indigenous groups of attackers in the Middle East, centered around a simple piece of malware known as njRAT (http://bit.ly/1i1Ps9m). While njRAT is similar in capability to many other remote access tools (RATs), what is interesting about this malware is that it is developed and supported by Arabic […]

    Scribe gangrape:Fresh charges framed against 3 common convicts

    Days after sentencing four men to life term for brutalising a telephone operator in Shakti Mills compound in Mumbai, a local court on Monday framed fresh charges against the three common convicts in the 2013 photojournalist gangrape case. The additional charges were framed under section 376 (e) of the IPC for repeated offence after court […]

    Shakti Mills gang-rape case: 4 convicts get life term

    A court in Mumbai on Friday sentenced four persons life in jail for the gang-rape of the telephone operator that took place at the Shakti Mills located in central Mumbai last year. Meanwhile, the court convicted the five men for gangrape, criminal conspiracy, common intention, unnatural sex, criminal intimidation, wrongful restraint, assault and destruction of […]

    HC rejects Tejpal’s bail in sexual assault case

    The Bombay High Court on Friday rejected the bail plea of Tehelka Founder Editor Tarun Tejpal, accused of sexually assaulting a junior woman colleague in a lift of a five star hotel in Panaji. Justice U V Bakre of the Goa bench of the court refused bail to Tejpal, who is presently lodged at Sada […]

    SC upholds Ansal brothers’ conviction, judges differ on sentence

    Upholding the conviction of Ansal brothers — Sushil and Gopal — in the Uphaar fire tragedy case, the Supreme Court on Wednesday referred to a three-judge bench the question of quantum of sentence to be imposed on them. A bench of Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice Gyan Sudha Misra referred the matter of sentence to […]