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."

Cyber crime costs India 8 billion USD :Great Indian financial loss

Kolkata: Cyber criminals are out on the prowl!

The mushrooming cyber crime cases in India are to be blamed for financial losses. More than 42 million people in India have been victimized by cyber criminals since the last 12 months, with approximately 8 billion US dollars in direct financial losses, a recent report said.

These findings form part of the Norton Cyber Crime Report 2012 based on experiences of over 13,000 adult internet users across 24 countries globally, including 1,000 from India. The global cost to cyber crime was estimated at $110 billion, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported.

According to the report, 66 per cent of adults in India have been victims of cyber crime in their lifetime. In the last 12 months, 56 per cent of adults online in India have experienced cyber crime, translating to more than 1,15,000 victims of cyber crime every day or 80 victims a minute and more than 1 a second.

Criminals target women with hi-tech devices

Agencies : Thiruvananthapuram, Mon Jul 30 2012, 15:44 hrs
As many as 80,000 cyber crime related complaints have been registered with police in Kerala in the last one year, of which 50,000 relate to harassment of women through new hi-tech devices, Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan said here today.

The number of cyber crimes are on the rise in the state with 80,000 complaints lodged in the last one year, of which 50,000 were relating to women alone, the home minister told reporters here.

Most victims of these crimes were teenaged girls and women, he said, adding there was a nefarious attempt to trap young girls to indulge in wrongdoing.

The increase in number of mobile phones had also led to more number of cyber crimes, he said.

Kerala now has three lakh mobile phones, he said.