Tag: Cyber crime

In Kashmir, security forces facing uphill task in tracking VPNs

The cybercrime wing of the J&K Police is working hard to identify the VPNs that have sprung up like a virus and has registered cases against them.

February 20, 2020

Cyber Crime: Haryana Police cautions against scanning unknown QR codes

Advising people to be aware of such scammers, additional director general of police (law and order), Navdeep Singh Virk on Thursday said that cybercriminals are now paving the way to hack bank accounts of innocent persons by sending them QR codes via emails, WhatsApp, etc.

February 13, 2020

New rules to regulate social media to be finalised by January 15: Centre to SC

The top court also transferred all cases pending at the Madras, Bombay and Madhya Pradesh High Courts, concerning demand for sharing of decrypted data of social media profiles, to itself.

October 22, 2019

Read English newspaper: UP SP wants cops to have basic knowledge of language to tackle cyber crime

Following the directives, district police personnel have already started purchasing books and dictionaries to learn English.

October 6, 2019

106 stolen mobiles returned

The commissioner of police Mr Humayun Kabir of Chandannagar commissionerate said:“Police had received complaints of thefts of 300 mobiles during the last two months. We recovered 106 stolen mobiles and handed it over to their rightful owners. We are still tracking the others."

September 3, 2019

English Bazar gets cyber crime PS

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee had also urged such a police station in each district for the convenience of the people.

July 20, 2019

5 Precautionary steps to beat Cyber Crime

The Bengaluru Police has reported that out of 20,000 FIRs registered between January 2019 and June 2019, 25% were related to Cyber Crimes.

July 15, 2019

Himachal Police cautions citizens against downloading fraudulent apps

In recent times, it has been found out that cybercriminals, after taking a person into confidence, urge him to download Any Desk or Team Viewer or any other app from Google Play Store.

February 20, 2019

Dharamshala forensic lab to have DNA testing facilities

Earlier, the facility was only available in State Forensic Science Laboratory at Junga in Shimla district.

November 14, 2018

Rajnath launches sexual offenders portal

Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who unveiled the NDSO portal, launched another portal to check online content related to child pornography.The two portals will help investigating agencies in cases where criminals migrate to other states after committing crime.

September 21, 2018

How Russia used cyber warfare to help Trump

The Soviet Union and now Russia under Vladimir Putin have waged a political power struggle against the West for nearly a century. Spreading false and distorted information – called “dezinformatsiya” after the Russian word for “disinformation” – is an age-old strategy for coordinated and sustained influence campaigns that have interrupted the possibility of level-headed political …

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July 30, 2018

HP cops to get cyber training

Two hundred police officials in Himachal Pradesh will be trained in investigation of cyber crime to keep pace with technology. A release by the cyber crime cell in Shimla said the banking ombudsman at RBI (Reserve Bank of India) Chandigarh will hold a one-day seminar-workshop on 8 August in Shimla to train HP police officials …

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July 29, 2018

Cryptojacking surge a whopping 629% in Q1 2018: McAfee

There were on average five new threat samples every second that resulted in a massive 629 per cent growth in cryptojacking and other cryptocurrency mining malware in the first quarter of 2018.

June 28, 2018

CM condemns recent rape instances, says police acted timely

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik condemned the recent incidents of rape but said that the police had taken timely action in arresting the accused persons in the shortest possible time. Replying to a discussion budgetary grants for the home and general administration department in the Assembly on Thursday, the CM said the Government will spare no …

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April 27, 2018

Cyber crime con artist arrested by Jajpur police

Jajpur police arrested a man involved in several cases of cybercrime. The accused has been identified as Jitendra Kumar Sahoo of Parakula village in the neighbouring Kendrapara district. He was held near N.C.College in Jajpur by a special squad headed by Jajpur SDPO Prasanta Kumar Mallha on Thursday night. A car, a laptop, 11 small …

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March 17, 2018

Cyber crime becoming industry, may occur ‘very often’: Rajnath

Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said cyber crime has become an industry globally and that such offences may occur “very often” due to the availability of resources in wrong hands. Singh also said penetration of Internet and self-radicalisation have further added to the woes of law enforcement agencies and that continuance of the availability of …

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March 14, 2018

Govt to set up cyber crime coordination centre

To deal with cyber crimes such as financial frauds, circulation of communal andpornographic contents, the Union Home Ministry is planning to set up an apex coordination centre and has asked states to establish a similar mechanism in every district. It has also released Rs 83 crore for setting up of a cyber forensic training laboratory-cum-training …

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January 29, 2018