A Pakistani student in UK will be extradited to the US from UK over computer hacking allegations stemming from an FBI sting operation.    The 24 years old student identified as Usman Ahzaz, was admitted to a university in Britain in order to get a degree in information systems and computing failed the bid to avoid extradition from Britain to the United Stated. The hacker was arrested as a request made ...

3 to 4 year years back cyber criminals were having less advantage in hacking a social networking account as it only allowed him to reach to victim’s personal information and nothing other then it. But, today the scenario has totally changed people around the world are using their social networking account as means of trading, as we all know, there is no requirement these days to make a new account on every ...

Earlier I updated you regarding a successful hacking attack on Indonesian Presidential website by Jember Hacker Team. Today the Indonesian police has arrested an Internet cafe operator from the East Java district of Jember for allegedly hacking the presidential website.  The 22 years old, Wildan Yani Ashari is an Indonesian citizen who works at an Internet cafe as an operator. The cafe is run by company CV ...

UK authorities have fined Sony PlayStation with a fine of $400,000 on the charges of breaching passwords of several users in the year 2011. But, Sony since the induction of the fine has been facing losses/expenditures far greater than $400,000. According to them, only the insurance of their systems and staff costs $171M which has become difficult to cover because of a loss in their brand image. Prove of thi ...

The Philippine police last week arrested a group of 15 Chinese women and 2 men. This group was arrested on behalf of a fraudulent activity they carried out over the internet successfully. After week of thorough investigations the police declared this group criminals after which the Chinese police was after.  Previously, Chinese police has contacted the Philippine unit for arresting a group which had run awa ...

Bahrain’s cyber police have laid a cyber crime crack down over the sexual predators. There have been a lot of uprisings in the world of cyber crimes from the sexual predators, due to them there is lot of social abuse going on these days. The criminals have been blackmailing young women over the sharing of unethical photos of theirs. Through, this blackmailing they have been getting a lot of cash. According ...

This year is probably one of the best years for the cyber criminals. The criminals went through the defenses of many renowned sites and systems this year. Though, in the beginning government do not seek this as one of the concerned issue but with the time as more and more cases belonging to cyber crimes begin to get registered. In response to it, government took some radical measures and many cyber criminal ...

Online scamming has these days have become more then simple crimes these days. Criminals see them as a business more than a crime committed by them. 2012 saw a tremendous increase in the scams carried by the criminals, not only the scams got increased but they also got sophisticated too. Ordinary people faced huge losses due to this. Billions were robbed and some significant information was also stolen. Let ...

As cyber crimes is getting sophisticated with each passing day, the experts now have now predicted a new dimension in the world of cyber crimes. This time around they have predicted the most worst form of criminal act i.e. A murder through the internet. However, they don't see happening soon but in a year or so it may be possible. But, one question would be lurking everyone's mind how it can happen ? Well, ...

India is one of the most affected countries from the hands of cyber crimes this and statistics prove this too. This year an increase of about 57 percent is recorded in the amount of websites being hacked from all over India in comparison to the year 2009 which recorded only over 9000 website's hackings. This year only October such an increase was recorded, over 14000 websites were hacked in this particular  ...