Author: Seth Associates

Social networking sites are fast becoming a hotspot for cyber criminals. From morphed pictures to defamatory comments, police officials have their hands full with complaints from users. Many people have already become victims of obscenity on social networking websites. The Delhi police has recorded over 200 complaints in the past one year alone, regarding morphed… Continue reading Orkut, Facebook-users targets for cyber criminals

Trivandrum: The Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KeSCPCR) will present their recommendations to the Government on enhancing the safety of children using Internet as the outcome of an ‘Expert Consultation on Legislative and Executive Action to Improve Security of Children in Cyberspace’ held in Thiruvananthapuram. In her opening remarks, Neela Gangadharan IAS… Continue reading Kerela child rights commission to push for cybersecurity, 2 March 2014

Even as activist Sunitha Krishnan’s #ShameTheRapist campaign created an uproar, the Supreme Court on Friday decided to take the matter seriously. On Thursday, a video of a gang rape in Pakistan came to light. The Pakistan police tried to get the video removed from the WhatsApp network but to no avail. This peer to peer… Continue reading WhatsApp: Criminals’ new fetish  February 28, 2015, 12.16 AM  IST | THE HANS INDIA

“Ransomware” is a type of malware that gets installed on a computer system through downloads or malicious links and then it proceeds to encrypt all the files and sensitive data. Once the data is encrypted, the victims are asked to cough up a ransom to the malware operators to decrypt it. The ransom is mostly… Continue reading Cybercriminals using ransomware to extort money, millennium post, April 16, 2015