Nokia Dual SIM 114 Phone Launched

India might be waiting for Nokia’s next range of Lumia devices, the 920 and 820 but the struggling Finnish handset maker is not done with launching web-enabled feature phones in India.

One such device, Nokia’s 114 is now officially listed on the company’s India website. The 114 comes with a dual SIM option and has more importantly will let you browse Facebook.

Key features of the device include:

• A 65k colour 1.7-inch display
• Nokia Browser.
• Support for Bluetooth v2.1, GPRS and EDGE.
• SD card slot that can support a microSD card with a capacity of up to 32 GB.
• Internal memory of 16 MB and mass memory of 64 MB. The mass memory is what you can expand in the device.
• It also has a 0.3 megapixel camera that can capture images of up to 640 x 480 pixels. The camera has a $X digital zoom.

It also comes loaded with the usual personal information management features such as dictionary, digital clock, recorder, calculator, etc. and also has a few Java games.
The price of the device has not yet been revealed.
Source-FirstPost

Journalist’s Facebook account Hacked to post Thackeray images

MUMBAI: After a teenager was embroiled in a controversy over obscene comments being posted in a Facebook account against Raj Thackeray, another case of objectionable online content has emerged from Palghar. 

This time, an FB account used by a 39-year-old Palghar journalist has allegedly been hacked to upload objectionable images and abusive remarks against Bal Thackeray. The local Shiv Sena unit was aware of the matter but refrained from acting on it. 

Mohammed Hussain (39), who runs a fortnightly newspaper, realized on Thursday evening that the FB account he had opened in the paper's name had been hacked. He submitted a written complaint to the Palghar police early on Friday. The cops, however, were yet to register a case and were likely to forward the complaint to the Thane cyber crime cell. A CD containing the images was also handed over to the police. 

Raj Thackeray's children lodge Complaint to police over facebook fake account

MNS chief Raj Thackrey's children have filed a complaint with the Maharashtra cyber cell over fake Facebook and Twitter accounts in their names. Raj's son and daughter have asked the police to try and block these accounts and clarified that they have no accounts on social media websites.

Raj's children have also requested people to not fall for such a trap and send friend requests. In yet another case emerging from Palghar town in the district, police have received a complaint about some "objectionable" matter relating to late Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray posted on a "fake" Facebook account of a local newspaper. Mohammed Hussain Nadi Sarwar Khan (30), editor of 'Palghar Mirror', a fortnightly newspaper in Hindi and Marathi, complained that a fake Facebook account had been opened in his newspaper's name and objectionable photo and comments were posted against Thackeray.

"Last night, I was told that objectionable comments and photo were posted against Thackeray in my Palghar Mirror account on Facebook. When I saw it, I realised that my original account was not used but the hacker created another account in my newspaper's name. At about 3.30 am, I went to the police station and gave a written complaint," Khan said. But now, the fake account could not be seen as it appears to have been deactivated by the hacker, Hussain added.

"We have received an application mentioning about the objectionable comments and photo against Thackeray on fake Facebook account. We are inquiring into the matter," an officer at Palghar police station said. This is the second complaint at the police station involving "objectionable" content against Bal Thackeray.

Earlier, two girls were arrested after they had criticised in a Facebook post the November 18 shutdown due to Bal Thackeray's funeral. The two were later granted bail after they were remanded in 14-day judicial custody.  With additional information from PTI 

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Air India Employee arrested for Facebook Post

 Even as outrage over the arrest of two Maharashtra girls for their Facebook post on Bal Thackeray continues, another instance of harassment involving two Air India employees has come to light.

Air India cabin crew members Mayank Mohan Sharma and KVJ Rao were arrested by the cyber crime cell of the Mumbai police in May this year for material they put up on Facebook.

The two are alleged to have shared lewd jokes about politicians, made derogatory comments against the Prime Minister and insulted the national flag in their posts.

India Signs Agreement with UK On Co-Operation in Fighting Cybercrime

While hosting the 2010 Commonwealth Games, India watched as online tickets suddenly vanished. But no funds were received, the stadiums were empty and shut-out fans were furious.

The website's cyber security had been breached, leading to losses of around Rs. 1.5 billion ($27.3m). "Somebody played a dirty trick. It was a situation nobody had expertise in handling back then. It cost the organisers a huge loss," National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon told Khabar South Asia.

This month, India signed its first ever agreement with a foreign country – United Kingdom – on co-operation in fighting cybercrime. It was inked on November 9th by External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and his British counterpart, William Hague.

The accord, authorities hope, will not only help prevent hacker exploits of the sort that marred the 2010 Games, but will also guard against the dangers posed by internet-savvy terrorists.

"The cyber-security dialogue will seek to reduce the risk of threats from cyberspace to international security and strengthen the bilateral co-operation in tackling cybercrime," the ministers said in a joint statement issued at the end of the meeting.

At the same time, both sides affirmed their commitment to the "core principles of liberty, transparency, freedom of expression and the rule of law" in cyberspace.

According to Deputy National Security Advisor Vijay Latha Reddy, India sees the agreement as an initial step in a longer-term strategy.

Lucknow Lawyer and Social activist Lodged FIR against Facebook

A city lawyer and social activist on Sunday lodged a first information report (FIR) against popular social networking site Facebook, after his profile was blocked.

The report was filed at the 'cyber crime cell' of the Lucknow police by Prince Lenin, a resident of Hussainganj here.

In his complaint, Lenin alleged that although he had long been a user of Facebook, his profile was recently blocked by the site without so much as informing him or spelling out the reasons for such "one sided and unfair action."

Alleging that blocking his profile on the site was against the natural law of justice, the complainant claimed that even though he had brought the matter to the notice of Facebook, he was told that several complaints were pending against him from other users of the site.

The complainant said that his profile was blocked between Nov 11 and 13.

Women Arrested for Facebook post on total Shutdown on Mumbai

MUMBAI, Nov 19 – Indian police said on Monday they had arrested a woman for criticising on Facebook the total shutdown of Mumbai after the death of politician Bal Thackeray, as well as a friend who “liked” the comment.

The pair was due to appear in court later in the day charged under the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act, said Police Inspector Shrikant Pingle in the town of Palghar north of Mumbai.

“The two women will be produced in a local court later this afternoon. They are being charged for hurting religious sentiments,” he told AFP.

They were arrested on Sunday, when a huge funeral procession attended by hundreds of thousands of supporters was held in Mumbai for Thackeray, the divisive founder of the rightwing Shiv Sena party.

News of his death on Saturday afternoon brought the city to a virtual standstill for the weekend, with businesses shutting and taxis going off the roads, amid fears of violence by Thackeray’s supporters.

While his followers mourned, others were angered at the hold Shiv Sena exerted over India’s financial capital. The 21-year-old arrested for her Facebook post was among many who aired opinions on social networking sites.

Israeli Government Websites Under Hacking Attack

 More than 44 million hacking attempts have been made on Israeli government web sites since Wednesday when Israel began its Gaza air strikes, the government said on Sunday.

Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said just one hacking attempt was successful on a site he did not want to name, but it was up and running after 10 minutes of downtime.

Typically, there are a few hundred hacking attempts a day on Israeli sites, the ministry said.

Attempts on defence-related sites have been the highest, while 10 million attempts have been made on the site of Israel's president, 7 million on the Foreign Ministry and 3 million on the site of the prime minister.

A ministry spokesman said while the attacks have come from around the world, most have been from Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Hacker hacked Into Adobe Servers by Using Virus_Hima

Adobe has temporarily closed one of its user forums after a hacker caused a data breach.

The forum, Connectusers.com, allows Adobe customers to share information and opinions about its Connect online conferencing service, which is used to host Web conferences, e-learning, and webinars.

However, after a hacker hailing from Egypt posted a purported file dump containing user details from the site on Pastebin, Adobe pre-emptively took down the forum and said it will reset the passwords of affected site members.

The file dump, posted by the alleged hacker using the alias ViruS_HimA, apparently contains over 150,000 e-mail addresses and passwords from Adobe employees, the U.S. military and companies including Google and NASA. E-mails ending with adobe.com, .mil, and .gov have only been released as a screenshot, with the Egyptian hacker claiming they are "not looking to ruin Adobe['s] business."

Akash 2 Tablet Launched in India for RS.1130

 BHOPAL: Teaching faculty of city engineering colleges have appreciated the low-cost Aakash 2 launched on Sunday after the concluding session of the two -day Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) nationwide workshop. Coordinated by the IIT-Mumbai under the National Mission on Education through Information and Technology (NME-ICT), eight city engineering colleges were part of 244 in India that were selected as remote centres for "Aakash in Education" programme. President Pranab Mukherjee launched the tablet after the end of programme.

Faculties at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), IES College of Technology, Sagar Institute of Research and Technology, Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Oriental College of Technology, Truba, Bansal Institute of Research and Technology and NRI Institute of Science and Technology were part of the programme.

The workshop was organised with the objective of helping faculty improve teaching techniques in engineering institutes with the help of newly-launched low-cost indigenous Aakash tablet. They were trained for the effective use of the device during the workshop.

'Dabangg 2' Ten Second Teaser Released on Facebook

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) The much-awaited look of "Dabangg 2" was unveiled on Salman Khan's official Facebook page and the star says this is to cater to new generation which follows movie news on new media.

Salman, whose Facebook profile has got 6.8 million likes, says he will also use traditional medium to promote his movies.

"There is a new generation following movie news on new media, so we launched the campaign on Facebook. We will continue to use traditional media. It's not about one replacing the other. It's one alongside the other," Salman said in a statement.

RBI warning on phishing mail

                                                                                         
                                                                                             May 21, 2012
It has come to the notice of the Reserve Bank of India that an email has been

sent in its name from mail id: alert@rbi.org and signed by RBI Online offering a 'new

online security platform'. According to the mail, the 'new online security platform'

offers to 'prevent online identity theft in internet banking by asking the customer to go

through a two-way authentication factor before he/she properly logs into internet

banking every time'. The email then asks the recipient to 'download the attachment

and update'.

The Reserve Bank clarifies that it has not sent any such mail. In fact, it does

not have any mail ids with extension @rbi.org. Members of public receiving such

mails should not open the attachment and/or try to download it on their computer. It

could be a phishing mail and downloading the attachment could result in identity

theft.
                                                                                     Alpana Killawala
Press Release : 2011-2012/1849                               Chief  General Manager
Source-RBI

Women Victims of Cyber Crime freely Come Forward to lodge complaints:DGP

Andhra Pradesh has achieved another dubious distinction in crime against women. Addressing the gathering at a workshop on women-related issues at Jubilee Hall here on Thursday, director-general of police (DGP) V Dinesh Reddy said that going by the number of cases registered by the police, the state stood in the second position in crimes against women in the country.

He said dowry and molestation-related offences were on the increase. The DGP said that the police were encouraging women victims of cyber crime to freely come forward and lodge complaints. "We assure women that their identity will be kept confidential and severe action will be taken against the offenders. Objectionable content on websites is being removed," he added.

22 Year Old Gunter Girl duped through Facebook

 HYDERABAD: A person, who duped an MBA graduate to the tune of Rs 20 lakh by posing as a handsome hunk on the social networking site Facebook, was arrested by Cyber Crime sleuths on Tuesday.

On October 17, a 22-year-old woman from Guntur lodged a complaint with the Cyber Crime police station of the CID stating that she was duped by one Rajapathi of Hyderabad to the tune of Rs 20 lakh. The victim informed the police that she came in contact with him through Facebook.

By introducing himself as an IIT graduate and a software professional, Rajapathi lured the victim into the trap. Rajapathi, who is actually 3.5 feet tall, had put a handsome man's photo as his profile picture. Thinking that Rajapathi is a good-looking software professional, the victim became close to him. They used to 'chat' frequently and even conversed on the phone. After gaining her confidence, Rajapathi informed the woman that he was suffering from some kidney disease and requested her to help him financially.

Android 4.0 Mediapad Launched by Huawei in 13700

Chinese telecom-equipment maker, Huawei, has officially launched its MediaPad 7 Lite tablet in India. This has to be one of the few budget slates sporting a metal-clad body. Another aspect that sets it apart from the other 7" tablets, is the onboard 3G slot and voice calling capability. On the software front, the MediaPad 7 Lite offers Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) out of the box. Moving on to its specs, you get a 1.2 GHz Cortex A8 CPU, coupled with 1 GB of RAM. Here is the complete list of features:

• 1.2 GHz Cortex-A8 CPU, GC800 GPU, 1 GB RAM.
• 7" LCD capacitive multi-touch IPS screen with 1024x600 pixels, 16 million colours.
• 3.2 mp rear camera, 0.3 mp front-facing camera.
• 4 GB of internal storage, MicroSD card slot (up to 32 GB).
• Wi-Fi with hotspot, Bluetooth 3.0, A-GPS.
• Micro USB 2.0 (with OTG support), 3.5 mm jack, Gravity sensor.
• Android 4.0 (ICS).
• Voice calls supported; GSM (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz), 3G (2100 MHz).
• 7.6" (l) x 4.7" (w) x 0.4" (11 mm) (d), 370 grams.
• 4100 mAh Lithium Polymer battery, 15 hours of talk time (12 hours on 3G), 5 hours of video playback.
• Package Contents: Charger, Quick Start Guide, Warranty Card, Headset, Data Cable.

Mobile users to grow rapidly on Facebook

Social networking site Facebook anticipates its mobile users growth to outpace PC users growth in "foreseeable" future largely on the back of India, Brazil and the US.

The networking giant has, however, failed to cash in on the growing mobile user base so far. Facebook, in a filing with Securities and Exchange Commission of the US, said it has 1.01 billion MAUs as on September 30, 2012. Users in Brazil, India, and Japan represented key sources of growth in the third quarter of 2012 relative to the prior year, it said.

"While most of our mobile users also access Facebook through personal computers, we anticipate that the rate of growth in mobile usage will exceed the growth in usage through personal computers for the foreseeable future and that the usage through personal computers may be flat or continue to decline in certain markets, including key developed markets such as the US, in part due to our focus on developing mobile products to encourage mobile usage of Facebook," it said.

Mamata Banerjee on Facebook Protest aganist LPG Price hike

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today asked all political parties, including those supporting the UPA government from outside, to build pressure for roll back of hike in price of non-subsidised cooking gas.

"Time is running out. I would appeal to political parties, even those who are extending outside support to UPA-II Government to stand up and be bold to oppose this decision. I assure you to be with you for the sake of the common people," Ms Banerjee said in her latest post on Facebook.

She alleged that the decisions to put a cap on subsidised LPG cylinders and increasing their prices was taken in the "interest of a few petroleum companies".
Dubbing the UPA as a "minority" government, Ms Banerjee alleged that the Centre was using CBI to "terrorise" its opponents.

"Though I have great respect for CBI as an institution, but the way they are being used for political purposes and also unnecessarily made to create problems in every state to control political parties and state governments, is not acceptable. It proves that CBI now stands for 'Congress Bureau of Investigation'," she held.

"I am told from different sources that the present UPA Government has developed a feeling that there is nobody to change their decision," she wrote on Facebook.

India Defence and Development organisation Website Hacked

Websites of key Indian government organisations, including an advisor to the prime minister and the defence establishment DRDO, reportedly came under cyber attacks on Wednesday night, leading to their shutdown for a while, government sources said on Thursday.

The government sources said some 'suspicious and unwanted' activity

was observed on these websites, maintained by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), following which these were shut down for a couple of hours.

"After checking the websites, these were restored," a source said, adding that the information contained by these websites is already in the public domain.

$200 mn for Cyber Security infrastructure in 4 years :India Govt

New Delhi: The government Tuesday said that it will invest around USD 200 million in next four years to strengthen cyber security infrastructure.

"We have 1.2 billion people and will be largest in terms of population country in the world in years to come. This (cyber crime) affect us perhaps much more than any other country in the world," Telecom and IT Minister Kapil Sibal said on sidelines of 3rd Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit.

The Minister added that priority for India at present is to protect its infrastructure like nuclear, aviation, banking infrastructure, among others.

"I presume multi-dimensional and multi-sectoral infrastructure will be established in different area. In the Department of Electronics and IT (DEITy) itself we must have investment of USD 200 million in next four years to create necessary infrastructure. We are working on that," DEITy Secretary J Satyanarayana said.

Kashmiri Muslim protested against Facebook posts:india

Muslims in Indian-administered Kashmir have protested against Facebook posts which they say insult Islam.

Police have arrested three people, all Hindus, from the Kishtwar district for allegedly running a "campaign" against Islam on the social networking site.

Two of the men are government teachers. Authorities said they had been dismissed from their jobs.

Police were put on alert after Muslim leaders called for a shutdown in the valley on Tuesday.

On Monday Muslim protestors clashed with relatives of the three men who allegedly put up the Facebook posts in Kishtwar, Doda and Bhaderwah districts.

Some protestors pelted a local police station with stones and damaged vehicles.

Singer Chinmayi Receive Abusive tweet from Anonymous

The recent arrest of two men in Tamil Nadu for harassing and threatening south Indian playback singer Chinmayi Sripada on Twitter and social media showed the country how even the virtual world is unsafe for women in India.

For a change, it also showed how women can hit back and smoke the abusive men out of their internet anonymity.

Reportedly, the men had relentlessly attacked the A-list singer, who is also an entrepreneur and voice artist, using racial, sexist and vulgar comments on her, and threatened her with rape and violence. The issue spilled over to Facebook and elsewhere on the web, where (mostly) men passed judgments on her.
Image courtesy: Facebook page.

From what Chinmayi wrote in her blog “Facing abuse and a backlash of rumours” it appears to be a rather long abusive pursuit by some men starting January last year. Reading her version of the story is quite distressing – that a young professional woman with public standing like her could be a target of such vicious attacks and threats.

14-year-old girl Kidnapped, through her Facebook Friend

When a 14-year-old girl received a Facebook friend request from an older man she didn't know, she accepted it out of curiosity. It's a click she will forever regret, leading to a brutal story that has repeated itself as sexual predators find new ways to exploit Indonesia's growing obsession with social media. 

The junior high student was quickly smitten by the man's smooth online flattery. They exchanged phone numbers, and his attention increased with rapid-fire texts. He convinced her to meet in a mall, and she found him just as charming in person. 

They agreed to meet again. After telling her mom she was going to visit a sick girlfriend on her way to church choir practice, she climbed into the man's minivan near her home in Depok, on the outskirts of Jakarta. The man, a 24-year-old who called himself Yogi, drove her an hour to the town of Bogor, West Java, she told The Associated Press in an interview. 

There, he locked her in a small room inside a house with at least five other girls aged 14 to 17. She was drugged and raped repeatedly, losing her virginity in the first violent session. 

Cyber criminal Exposed Taxpayer Data:South Carolina

As many as 3.6 million Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers used by state taxpayers could have been exposed to a hacker in recent cyber attacks on the state Department of Revenue's computers, officials said on Friday.

The vast majority of the credit card numbers used by South Carolina taxpayers were encrypted, but about 16,000 were not, meaning the data was fully exposed, state police said.

None of the Social Security numbers were encrypted, said State Law Enforcement Division spokesman Thom Berry.

Berry said the hacker used a foreign Internet Protocol (IP) address to gain access to the data.

"This is not a good day for South Carolina," Governor Nikki Haley said at a news conference in the state capital of Columbia. "I want this person slammed against the wall," she said of the hacker.

"I want to get this person and make sure he can never do this to anybody or any state again," Haley said "I want that man just brutalized."

Officials said no public funds were accessed or put at risk. An investigation into the security breach is ongoing.

Investigators this month discovered two attempts to probe the Department of Revenue's system in early September, and later learned of an attempt made in late August, state officials said.

Most popular 25 worst password of the year 2012

Just in time for Halloween comes something that might scare anyone who spends a lot of time online: SplashData's annual list of the most common passwords used on the Internet and posted by hackers. Users of any of these passwords are the most likely to be victims in future breaches.

In a year with several high profile password hacking incidents at major sites including Yahoo, LinkedIn, eHarmony, and Last.fm, SplashData's list of frequently used passwords shows that many people continue to put themselves at risk by using weak, easily guessable passwords.

The top three passwords, "password," "123456," and "12345678," remain unchanged from last year's list.

New entries to this year's list include "welcome, " "jesus," "ninja," "mustang, " and "password1."

SplashData, provider of the SplashID Safe line of password management applications, releases its annual list in an effort to encourage the adoption of stronger passwords.

"At this time of year, people enjoy focusing on scary costumes, movies and decorations, but those who have been through it can tell you how terrifying it is to have your identity stolen because of a hacked password,” said Morgan Slain, SplashData CEO. “We're hoping that with more publicity about how risky it is to use weak passwords, more people will start taking simple steps to protect themselves by using stronger passwords and using different passwords for different websites."

Presenting SplashData’s “Worst Passwords of 2012”, including their current ranking and any changes from the 2011 list:

1. password (Unchanged)
2, 123456 (Unchanged)
3. 12345678 (Unchanged)
4. abc123 (Up 1)
5. qwerty (Down 1)
6. monkey (Unchanged)
7. letmein (Up 1)
8. dragon (Up 2)
9. 111111 (Up 3)
10. baseball (Up 1)
11. iloveyou (Up 2)
12. trustno1 (Down 3)
13. 1234567 (Down 6)
14. sunshine (Up 1)
15. master (Down 1)
16. 123123 (Up 4)
17. welcome (New)
18. shadow (Up 1)
19. ashley (Down 3)
20. football (Up 5)
21. jesus (New)
22. michael (Up 2)
23. ninja (New)
24. mustang (New)
25. password1 (New)

Beware your Credit & Debit Card Not Secure

Barnes & Noble Inc. says devices customers use to swipe credit and debit cards have been tampered with in 63 of its stores in nine states.

The New York-based company is warning customers to check for unauthorized transactions and to change their personal identification numbers, or PINs. It hasn't said how many accounts may have been compromised.

The bookseller says only one of the devices, known as PIN pads, was tampered with in each of the 63 stores. The stores are in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.

The company says it disconnected all the PIN pads in its nearly 700 stores nationwide on Sept. 14 after learning of the tampering. Federal authorities are helping in its investigation.
Source-necn

Facebook users are warned to be on their guard against unsolicited emails

 Facebook users are warned to be on their guard against unsolicited emails they might receive suggesting that someone has left an offensive comment about them on their wall.

Hi,
[REDACTED] commented on your Wall post.
[REDACTED] wrote: "you piece of shit!!!"
See the comment thread
Reply to this email to comment on this post.
Thanks,
The Facebook Team

Cyber Criminals Created FCI Duplicate Website

The Food Corporation of India (FCI) was reportedly targeted by cyber criminals earlier this month as unidentified persons created a fake FCI website. The corporation has approached the Delhi Police, asking it to identify those who created the fake website.

On Monday, officials from FCI’s office on Barakhamba Lane lodged a complaint at Barakhamba police station.

“FCI noticed a fake website and got it blocked. However, they need to know why the website was created. We may ask the Cyber Crime Cell to investigate the matter,” a senior police officer said.

According to a senior FCI official, the fake website was noticed for the first time on October 11 and its design and content was “exactly the same” as the real site. “Our address is fciweb.nic.in whereas the fake website’s address was fciweb.nicin. New content on the FCI website would automatically be uploaded to the fake site,” the official told Newsline on condition of anonymity.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Duplicate web page Found During investigation

Cyber fraudsters have duped more that 50 people through the duplicate Reserve Bank of India (RBI) web page in the past two months.
The fact came to light during the investigation of Devendra Singh con case, where the undergraduate student was dupe of Rs. 5,000. “It has come to light that at least 50 persons had fallen into the trap and deposited several lakhs of rupees in the State Bank of India (SBI) bank account that was provided by the fraudsters,” said Hazratganj circle officer (CO) Dinesh Yadav, who is also the cyber crime cell in-charge.

The CO added the bank account was opened in the bank’s Nagaland branch, while the transaction has been made from different places using ATM (automated teller machine) cards.

65 Million Active user in india on Facebook

World's largest social network Facebook Thursday announced that it has over 65 million active users in India, an eight-fold increase over last two years. 

"We are pleased to announced that over 65 million people in India are using Facebook to share and connect," said Kirthiga Reddy, director (online operations), Facebook India. 

She told reporters that these were all monthly active users or people who use their accounts at least once a month. 
Describing India as an important market for Facebook, Reddy pointed out that Facebook had just eight million users in India when they opened India office here in 2010.

With over one billion people connecting and sharing on Facebook platform, the social network has become the largest and the most engaged community of real people in the world. 

Nokia Asha 308 and 309 Dual Sim features

Mobile giant Nokia has expanded its Asha Touch series with the addition of dual-SIM Asha 308 and Asha 309.

Both Nokia Asha 308 and Nokia Asha 309 are 2G-enabled devices featuring a 3.0" WQVGA capacitive display, multiple home screens, stereo radio, loud speakers and up to 32GB microSD card support.

Nokia Asha 308 key specifications
- Nokia OS
- 3-inch WVGA capacitive touch display with 400x240 pixel resolution
- Dual-SIM
- 2MP camera
- Bluetooth 3.0connectivity
- 1110mAh
- 64MB internal storage, expandable upto 3GB via microSD
- FM Radio with RDS

Nokia Asha 309 key specifications
- Nokia OS
- 3-inch WVGA capacitive touch display with 400x240 pixel resolution
- 2MP camera
- WiFi and Bluetooth
- 1110mAh
- 64MB internal storage, expandable upto 3GB via microSD
- FM Radio with RDS

Source-Nokia

Cyberthieves steal $400,000 from Bank of America

Residents and city workers in Burlington, Wash., have been told to check their accounts after $400,000 was stolen from a city bank account.

City officials believe that the security breach resulted from the infiltration of a government account used to pay workers in the town, which is about 65 miles north of Seattle.

Although the exact amount of money stolen is not fully tallied, more than $400,000 has been transferred over the past two days, according to Seattle-based KOMO News.

The city first learned of the attack after an East Coast bank queried a number of account transfers that appeared "suspicious."

India's World No.1 in Spam Output

You can thank India for about one out of six spam messages cluttering your inbox.

SophosLabs's most recent "dirty dozen" report, which details the world's top spam-relaying countries, finds that India has topped the charts for the third quarter in a row.

That means that computers in India are passing along a whopping 16.1% of the spam spotted by Sophos experts.

The top 12 spam-relaying countries for July to September 2012:

1. India	16.1%
2. Italy	9.4%
3. USA	6.5%
4. Saudi Arabia	5.1%
5. Brazil	4.0%
6. Turkey	3.8%
7. France	3.7%
8. South Korea	3.6%
9. Vietnam	3.4%
10. China	3.1%
11. Germany	2.7%
12. United Kingdom	2.1%
Other	36.5%

Reportedly, India is home to 5.3% of the world's internet users, making it the third most connected country, after China and the US.

Amanda Todd Who Posted Video on Bullying found dead

The tragic story of B.C. teen suicide victim Amanda Todd has taken another bizarre twist as the internet hacking and activist group Anonymous has named a man the group says was the girl's primary tormentor.

Todd, 15, of Port Coquitlam, died last Wednesday, a month after posting a haunting video on YouTube that cited the sexualized attack that set her down a path of anxiety, depression and drug and alcohol abuse.

During her nine-minute video, the teen explains in hand-written notes that she was in Grade 7 when she was lured by an unidentified male to expose her breasts via webcam.

She says that a year later she received a message from a man on Facebook threatening that if she didn't give him a show, he would send the webcam picture to her friends and family. She says police later told her the man followed through with his threat.

Anonymous published the name and address of a Vancouver-area man that the group claims was bullying and preying on Todd via the internet.

The activist group, which often uses a caricature Guy Fawkes mask as its logo, claims the 32-year-old man has also made postings to child pornography sites.

The man himself has now been threatened online by others vowing to carry out vigilante justice, a development that worries Vancouver defence lawyer Eric Gottardi.

"The system isn't supposed to convict someone before charges are laid. It’s not supposed to be judge, jury and executioner, all in the public forum," Gottardi said. "We have a justice system. It’s supposed to work, it does work."

Google launched Free SMS on Gmail in India

Google has extended its free SMS chat service to India, whereby users can send text messages to mobile phones via Gmail Chat.

"You can send SMS messages to your contacts' mobile phones using Gmail Chat ... Google does not charge for using this service," according to information available with Google's website.

The SMS service is available in India and 51 other countries in Asia, Africa and North America.

The feature was activated for Indian users on October 10 and is available for regular Gmail users as well as those on Google Apps.

As per Google's website, this feature is available on all the mobile operators in the country.

The company said in order to send an SMS, users would have to add phone number to their contact list.

Naan Ee star’s Facebook ‘profile’ mocks CM

CHENNAI: On Sunday evening, actor 'Kiccha' Sudeep, who starred in the box office hit 'Naan Ee' , was shocked to find that his Facebook profile was hacked into, and photographs mocking Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa was posted online. 

"I have nothing to do with politics, but more importantly it is not my profile. Someone has created a similar profile and posted these pictures," he said. "The perpetrator is trying to create chaos, but I have nothing to do with it," the Kannada actor said in a statement to the media.

The actor will file a complaint with the cyber police on Monday.

Source-TOI

Indian Boy Found unconscious after meet his Facebook Friend

CHANDIGARH: It was a pleasant rendezvous on a social networking site that reportedly ended in a nightmare for a 28-year-old youth of Mandi Gobindgarh.

Sukhwinder Garg (name changed) was found unconscious in a Sector 18 hotel room on Thursday night. A waiter who found him in the condition raised the alarm, following which he was rushed to Government Multi-specialty Hospital (GMH), Sector 16.

Sources in police said, "Sukhwinder had come in contact with a girl on Facebook some days ago. As they became friendlier, she asked him to meet her in the city. When he reached Chandigarh, she took him to the hotel, after booking a room for six hours."

E-raksha campaign to check cyber crime:Police

BOKARO: The police department has selected Chinmaya Vidyalaya here to host e-raksha campaign after the school became a victim of cyber crime. Some months ago, cyber criminals had hacked the official website of the school, which was the first case of its kind to be lodged with Sector VI police station in the city.

On Thursday, IG, operation and special branch, S N Pradhan asked students to be smart and responsible while surfing the internet as the cyber world is fascinating but there are dangers lurking behind the internet. Pradhan along with the chief technical officer of special branch, Vineet Kumar created awareness on dangers of cyber world and precautions to be taken to safeguard themselves from becoming victims of cyber crime. Hundreds of students from 15 different schools were present at Chinmaya Vidyalaya.

Penta T-Pad WS703C tablet launched @ Rs 6,999

Pantel Technologies has announced the launch of India's first 2G SIM Slot Tablet PC, the Penta T-Pad WS703C, today.

Present at the announcement was the Minister of HRD, Telecom and IT, Govt of India, Kapil Sibal, launching India's first Voice call based tablet PC with 3D enabled capacitive touch screen, the Penta T-Pad WS703C today. Penta T-Pad WS703C comes with TF card expansion slot, voice call feature, 7-inch 3D-enabled capacitive touch screen, front and rear cameras and HDMI ports.

The all-new Penta T-Pad WS703C is priced at Rs 6,999 and features 4GB of internal storage, 512MB of RAM. It runs on a 1.2GHz Cortex A8 processor, has an in-built 2G sim card slot and is also compatible with 3G dongles. The 'all-port' architecture on this model includes features like dual camera, HDMI port and mini-USB port.

I’m not on Facebook: Shruti Haasan

Time and again, we're seeing celebs clarifying about their presence in various social networking sites. After Tamannaah and Vamsi Paidipally elucidating that they are not on any social networking sites, it's now Shruti Haasanturn to express the same. The leggy lass has clarified that she's not on Facebook after receiving several enquiries from her fan base. Shruti Haasan posted on her Twitter "I do not have a public profile on face book tweeps! Fake profiles :( "(sic).

Pak Blocked 20,000 objectionable websites Including Youtube

Pakistani authorities have blocked about 20,000 websites, including YouTube, for hosting "objectionable" material like footage from the anti-Islam movie "Innocence of Muslims", an official said on Monday.

"We have blocked 20,000 objectionable websites and blogs since the blasphemous film surfaced on the Internet," an official of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority said.

"We are strictly following the court's orders in this regard," said the official who did not want to be named.

He was referring to a sessions court in Lahore that ordered the registration of a case against the PTA Chairman for the organisation's failure to block footage from the anti-Islam film on the Internet.

"The PTA has not only blocked websites featuring the anti-Islam film but thousands of others with objectionable material," the official said.

Scenes in film 'Innocence of Muslims' blocked on Web: Police

The Cyber Crime Investigation cell of Mumbai police's Crime Branch today informed the Bombay High Court that on police's request, video-sharing portal Youtube (a Google subsidiary), had blocked "objectionable scenes" in the controversial anti-Islam film 'The Innocence of Muslims'. However, Youtube could not provide the IP addresses from where the film was uploaded as addresses were located outside India, said inspector Ravi Sardesai in his affidavit on a petition seeking removal of the film from the Internet.

For this, the process of Letter Rogatory was being initiated (whereby assistance of foreign judicial system is sought), he said