CBI arrests Indian mastermind behind Hire-a-Hacker service on FBI tip-off

For the first time in history, Indian Law Enforcement Agency 'Central Bureau of Investigation' CBI has arrested a Cyber criminal after getting a tip-off from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI. 33-Year-old Amit Vikram Tiwari, son of an Indian Army colonel and an engineering dropout, who...

Japanese Android developers arrested for infecting 10 million users

Japanese police arrested five mobile applications developers for creating and embedding a virus into smartphone applications. According to The Metropolitan Police Department, Intial reports said that about 90,000 smartphones users were infected with a virus lurking in applications they downloaded...

Kohat Students Charged for Sharing Info with Indian Hacker

Two college students from Kohat, missing since October, have been formally charged by the Federal Investigation Agency FIA for allegedly sharing information about the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan with an Indian hacker, officials and parents have reported. The FIA's Cyber Crime...

Cyber Stalking and Defamation Criminalized in IT Act Amendments

With mobile phones now essentially serving as personal computers, proposed amendments to the Information Technology Act, 2006, specify that transmitting offensive or menacing text, audio, or video can result in two years of imprisonment. This punishment also applies if the content is false and...