India to get new, ‘robust’ cyber security policy soon, says PM Modi

 New Delhi: India will soon have a new cyber security policy, announced Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his speech on India’s 74th Independence Day Saturday.

Modi said that his government is aware of the threats emanating from cyber space and how they had the potential to impact India’s society, economy and development. 

“Cyber security is a very important aspect, which cannot be ignored. The government is alert on this and is working on a new, robust policy,” he added.

The announcement was made in the backdrop of the government’s initiative to connect 1.5 lakh gram panchayats through optical fibre network, thereby increasing the country’s internet connectivity. 

Peeking At ‘Privacy’—A Call For Better Cyber Laws Against Crimes Online

While India advances towards abolishing an array of draconian offences embedded in its Penal Code inherited from its colonial ancestors, the likelihood of shedding its age-old skin of punitive measures wrinkled in the criminal justice system as it exists today stands far away from reality. Nevertheless, the disparity between an effort to evolve into a better criminal system and its failure to evolve is hard to ignore.

While we live in the era of demolishing the State’s right to infringe the privacy of an individual’s right to consensual acts of sexual pleasure, the normalcy and nature of which emerges from an interpretation of self-expression into the right to life, the same era breathes and bellows upon us those acts of sexual pleasure that resurrect from the deviant behavior characteristics buried in the mentality of sexual predators online over which the State takes little to no interest.

Fight cybercrime with the Budapest Convention!

A new report from the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) lays out the benefits and impact of the Budapest Convention on law making, domestic and international investigations, public/private cooperation and the strengthening of criminal justice capacities on a global scale.

Practical experience shows that the Budapest Convention is more than a legal document. Backed up by the T-CY and the C-PROC specialised Cybercrime Programme Office for global capacity building, it is a framework that allows hundreds of practitioners worldwide to share experience and create relationships that enhance cooperation in specific cases, including in emergency situations, beyond the specific provisions foreseen in the convention.

As treaty membership keeps growing, capacity building programmes are expanding and the treaty is further evolving through the future 2nd Additional Protocol on enhanced international cooperation and access to evidence in the cloud. The Budapest Convention is therefore likely to remain highly relevant and make an impact worldwide for many years to come.

Cyber Criminals Target Teachers by Filing Fraudulent Unemployment Claims

Cyber criminals have been targeting teachers across the state during the pandemic. Spectrum News has learned hackers used personal information from teachers to file fraudulent unemployment claims and the crime has apparently spread to other employers.

The hackers apparently broke into into virtual teaching portals, which were set up to make things easier while schools were shut down during the pandemic. To register to use them, teachers provided personal information.

One detained for cyber crimes in Tbilisi

Police have detained a Georgian citizen for cyber crimes in Tbilisi, Interior Ministry reported yesterday.

The ministry said the individual, identified only as A.B. and born in 2000, fraudulently accessed the Facebook accounts of 25 people between December 2019 and May 2020.

Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring

When law enforcement agencies tout their latest cybercriminal arrest, the defendant is often cast as a bravado outlaw engaged in sophisticated, lucrative, even exciting activity. But new research suggests that as cybercrime has become dominated by pay-for-service offerings, the vast majority of day-to-day activity needed to support these enterprises is in fact mind-numbingly boring and tedious, and that highlighting this reality may be a far more effective way to combat cybercrime and steer offenders toward a better path.

Cyber crime in India: COVID19

The COVID 19 virus has affected most countries in the world.  Security of companies is at stake as all data such as financial information, trade secrets, customer information and such other confidential information of the company is accessible to the employees from their homes with a click of a button. It is essential for employees to take utmost care of the company’s data and secure it from other members of the family and friends in order to avoid misuse of data or breach of confidential information. Apart from company’s information, personal sensitive information and financial information of an individual is also at risk in view of the increase in the Cyber Attacks.