Delhi Police banned Uber cab in Delhi after rape incident

NEW DELHI: Delhi government on Monday banned all operations by private cab service Uber with immediate effect and blacklisted it from providing any transport service in the national capital in the wake of the alleged rape incident in a taxi plying for it.

The action came a day after a taxi driver employed by Uber was arrested from Mathura for allegedly raping a 27-year-old woman executive in his cab.

"The transport department has banned all activities related to providing of any transport service by www.uber.com with immediate effect. The department has also blacklisted the company from providing any transport service in the NCT of Delhi in future," the Delhi government said in a statement.

It said the transport department has cancelled the permit and registration certificate of the taxi (DL1YD 7910) and driving licence of the accused.

According to the department, the taxi permit was granted on May 28, 2014, after due verification of character and antecedents of the permit holder.

Government said that Uber, the US-based cab firm, misled the commuter (rape victim) about the nature of the taxi service offered by its App.

Facebook offers Rs 2 crore package to IIT-Bombay girl

 

JAIPUR: IIT-Bombay student Aastha Agarwal's Facebook job offer with Rs two crore package is perhaps the highest offered to an undergrad. The 20-year-old Jaipur girl is a third-year computer science student.

Her family has been celebrating ever since she broke the news. "Since I did training with Facebook in May-June in California, they were aware of my work and selected me during pre-placement," said Aastha.

"I was supposed to develop software. They were satisfied with my work and offered me the job right away. Later, when I consented, they sent me the confirmation letter.''

She said she was eagerly waiting to complete her fourth year to join Facebook by October next year.

Aastha was earlier selected to represent India at the Junior Science International Olympiad in 2009.

India has the third-largest Internet user base in the world:Report

The number of Internet users in India is expected to cross the 300 million mark by the end of this year, overtaking the US as world’s second-largest Internet market.

According to a report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB International, the number of Internet users in India is expected to grow 32 per cent to 302 million this year from 213 million at the end of December 2013.

Presently, India has the third-largest Internet user base in the world. While China leads with more than 600 million Internet users, the US has an estimated 279 million users. It is estimated, the report said, that by December 2014, India will overtake the US as the second largest Internet users’ base in the world.

The user base in India is further estimated to grow to 354 million by June 2015.

Fake shopping portal busted by police

 

                                                                                                                                                   BENGALURU: A fake shopping portal, raided by police for allegedly duping gullible customers with false advertisements, will be shut down soon, a senior police official said.

"We will order shutting down the fake web site after completing the investigation and filing charge-sheet against the six accused partners who created the portal (BIGSOP.com) and used payment gateways of many banks for transactions," Bengaluru joint commissioner of Police Hemant Nimbalkar told IANS here.

The six accused were arrested Saturday and jailed Sunday after a court remanded them to six-day judicial custody pending investigation.

"We busted the fake portal by taking suo motu action on a complaint one of its victims posted on our Twitter account, alleging he was duped by the web site, by first declaring him a lucky winner of an iPhone for Rs 599 but not delivering the handset despite remitting the amount through a bank's payment gateway," Nimbalkar said.

Goa Govt. Six More Website hacked by Palestine-based server

 

 PANAJI: Six more Goa government websites were hacked Tuesday using a Palestine-based server, police said. The governor's website was hacked by Pakistan-based techies three weeks back.

The websites of the Chief Electoral Officer and departments of Land Records, Civil Supplies, Right to Information and a local municipal council were hacked Tuesday.

The websites have been taken offline as a precautionary measure, an officer attached to the Goa Police Cyber Cell told IANS.

"The websites have been hacked using a Palestine-based server. We believe the hacker group is based in Palestine," the officer said.

The governor's website which was hacked Oct 24 continues to have limited functionality, even three weeks after the incident.

The state government portals were also hacked by a Pakistani cyber expert in July last year when 13 websites maintained by government departments were defaced.

Police had then said that the websites were hacked by a cyber group called H4x0r HuSsy.

SAUDI MAN DIVORCES WIFE FOR IGNORING WHATSAPP MSG

Now, register your complaints to police on WhatsApp

GURGAON: After launching Gurgaon police pages on Facebook and Twitter, Gurgaon police commissioner launched a WhatsApp messenger service on Monday as part of the Citizen Connect initiative.

Mittal said that the launch is an attempt to bring greater transparency in police's relationship with the residents. "The new service will strengthen Gurgaon Police's existing social presence across Facebook and Twitter," Mittal said.

Police said that they believe that the number of WhatsApp users are much higher than people using Facebook or Twitter, so it will help to directly connect with more people. "By saving the number +91-8586976050 on their smartphones, residents can send messages, upload pictures and videos through WhatsApp to report corruption across government departments, harassment by any government officer, cases of crime and illegal activities."

Nation-wide tax returns fraud Detected by Cyber Crime Cell

 A nation-wide fraud involving fake Income Tax Department websites, fraudulent emails and phising websites cheating tax-payers by promising IT refunds has been detected by the Hyderabad’s Cyber Crimes Cell.

Using proxy servers, the culprits are sending emails that appear to have been sent from Income Tax Department, but were actually online traps to dupe unsuspecting victims.

The Cyber Crimes Cell discovered this fraud after a woman employee who had recently filed her IT returns lodged a complaint. In her complaint, she stated that she had received an email purported to have been sent from IT Department with email I’d ref.trxn@incometaxindia.gov.in informing that she was eligible for a tax refund of Rs 27,900. ‘

‘The email directed her to click on a web link provided in the email to file a request to have the total sum transferred into her bank account. There were instructions to ensure that all details are entered correctly to avoid delay in the remittance of benefits. At the end of the email it was mentioned ‘Regards, Income tax department, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India.’

India will be strengthening the cyber crime policy very soon: Rajnath Singh

The Home Ministry is taking all necessary steps for the prevention of cyber crime and will soon further strengthen the cyber crime prevention strategy, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said here on Friday.

He was speaking at a passing out day parade for trainee officers of the Indian Police Service at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad.

It is not necessary for the cyber criminal to reside in your town or country, this act that can be committed from any corner of the world. It can hit anyone, anywhere anytime, he said.

He also recalled the achievements of the country’s first home minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. “Single-handedly he achieved the merger of 562 princely states into the Indian Union with minimum violence and maximum willingness,” he said. “The merger of princely states like Junagadh and Hyderabad are inspiring… It is for this reason that our government has decided to observe this day as ‘National Unity Day’’’, he added.

The Home Minister stressed that the role of the police has to be changed in accordance with the changing times. “The police are the most visible representatives of the state and they are the most meaningful media of change in society”, he said. “Police stations should be temples of justice…I believe that a police official should be experimental with new practices,” he added.
source-http://indianexpress. com

Rajiv Gandhi's Name Allegedly Included in Black Money List

 

Indore | Oct 29, 2014: A Congress leader filed a complaint with the Cyber Crime Prevention Squad here today about former prime minister late Rajiv Gandhi's name going viral on social media alleging that it has been included among the list of people who have stashed black money in foreign banks.

"We want the police to identify those who have spread such fake messages on social media and register a criminal case against them because the image of our departed leader and party is being tarnished," the Madhya Pradesh Congress IT and Social Media Cell In-charge Dharmendra Vajpayee told PTI today.

The Centre placed a list of names of Indians having accounts in foreign banks before the Supreme Court today.

He alleged that unidentified people who are part of a conspiracy were spreading such messages on the social media stating that the list includes names of top Congress leaders who stashed away black money in foreign banks.

Meanwhile, Cyber Crime Prevention Squad In-charge Sunita Katara said that the Vajpayee's complaint is being probed and information regarding the same has been sent to the Bhopal-based Cyber Cell Headquarters.
source-outlookindia .com 

72000 Cyber Crime last year reported in india : Ravi Shankar Prasad

India has witnessed a massive surge in cyber crime incidents in about 10 years — from just 23 in 2004 to 72,000 last year, said telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.

“In the year 2004, we had only 23 incidents (of cyber crime). Last year we had about 72,000 incidents. Media reports show as to how cyber attacks are done to completely immobilize the financial infrastructure, information infrastructure,” Prasad said at cyber security event organized by The Observer Research Foundation and industry body Ficci.

As per government’s cyber security arm Computer Emergency Response Team-India (CERT-In) 62,189 cyber security incidents were reported in just the first 5 months this year.

Attackers compromise computer systems located in different parts of the world and use masquerading techniques and hidden servers making it difficult to trace them.

Prasad expressed concern over the absence of technical and legal infrastructure to catch cyber criminals, as also the lack of mechanism to check the unhindered growth of network of infected computer systems and flow of global information to check cyber crimes.

Android 5.0 Lollipop:Features

Google revealed many details about the new version of Android a few months ago, but we didn’t get a name it was simply “Android L.” Now there’s finally a name and a version number to go with it. Android 5.0 Lollipop is a seismic shift for Android in both design and features. With all the details of Android 5.0 now in the wild, it’s time to tell you all about the latest, largest, and greatest Android release yet. Buckle up and sit back: There’s a lot of awesome new features to run through.

Materially different

Google’s last design language was known as Holo, but that has been replaced by Material Design. This was thoroughly previewed when the developer preview was released, and Google went on to update the design guidelines for developers to start making Material apps. However, Google is stressing something new with the unveiling of Lollipop — consistency across devices.

From your phone, to your tablet, to your watch, to your car,  to your TV — it’s going to be Android Lollipop all the time. Well, as soon as your device maker gets around to pushing out an update. There will still be manufacturer skins, but Google is trying to create a vibrant new UI that OEMs will have a hard time covering up. The use of “hero” colors in apps is an example of this. The header color will carry over to the status bar (if the developer supports it), and that color is then shown in the header when you open the app switcher. OEMs love to skin the app switcher, but doing so now will mean taking away useful new UI cues, so why bother?

Delhi gets its first internet de-addiction centre

                                                                 

                                                                                                NEW DELHI: In the post-digital world, here's a first for the capital. Worried over the complete lack of socialization arising out of an internet-driven lifestyle among children, an NGO has launched Delhi's first internet de-addiction centre.

The centre operates from the ground floor of a three-storey building in South Delhi's Sarvodaya Enclave, where counsellors and psychologists guide children as young as 10 years old to participate in activities such as indoor games and engage in conversations with each other.

Experts at the centre say the cases coming in were diverse but the underlying problem was common — a pathological addiction to internet among a growing number of children in the capital.

Take the case of this 14-year-old boy, whose academic performance has seen a steep decline in recent months. The boy's parents blame his obsession with Facebook for his low grades.