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MUMBAI: Cyber experts say there should be proper guidelines when the court grants bail to those arrested under the Information Technology (IT) Act and fast-track courts for cyber-related cases will help proper convictions. Procedures currently followed to grant bail in cyber cases are similar to those under the Indian Penal Code. "Most of the accused are techsavvy and know the loopholes in the legal system very well," acyber expert said. Despite efforts by the cops, Rizwan Alsulkar managed to file a bail plea and will be out soon. "The time granted by the court to investigate the case was very less. This is not the first time where an accused caught under the IT Act has gone scot-free . In tech-related cases, the cops should get proper time to collect evidence ," a police official said. He added a person can be sentenced to 2-3 years under the IT Act. "However, conviction rate is very poor across the country, hardly going above 10% in the last 10 years....

BANGALORE: An Information Technology student who is in Bangalore in search of employment has filed a complaint against a youth for harassment. Thyagarajanagar police have registered a case against one Krishna Mohan who hails from Andhra Pradesh under the Information Technology Act 2000. The accused reportedly morphed the girl's photo with a nude picture and uploaded it on various porn websites with her mobile phone number. He also uploaded this information to social websites like orkut.com, police said. In her complaint, the girl has said she hailed from Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh and did her engineering in IT. Police said she met Krishna Mohan through a common friend Chitanya in October last year and he started proposing to her but she rejected him. He then started mailing her pornographic pictures and messages on her email ID. She came to Bangalore in search of job recently and stayed at her relative's house in Thyagarajanagar. She got some telephone calls from stra...

Have you received an email, seemingly from PayPal, declaring that your account has been temporarily limited? Plenty of people have been targeted by an attack which uses the subject line "Your account has been temporarily limited!" and claims to come from what appears to be an offiicial PayPal address. Well, beware opening the attached reactivation form too quickly because you could be passing your personal information to cybercriminals. Because the emails are bogus, and the headers are forged - all with the intention of stealing information from you. Here is part of the text of that we are seeing being spammed out widely right now: Dear PayPal account holder, PayPal is constantly working to ensure security by regularly screening the accounts in our system. We have recently determined that different computers have tried logging into your PayPal account,and multiple password failures were present before the logons. Sounds scary, eh? People on different computers have been tryi...

 SQL Injection Vulnerability in Italian Government 's website ! Site Penetrate By : God_Of_Pain , Lord TittiS , SYSTEM_OVERIDE                           [ 1] Site And Server Info # Website link :  http://governo.it/ # Bug Url:  Can't Publish # Powered By: ASP.NET # Server Detail: Microsoft SQL Server  2000 - 8.00.2039 (Intel X86)  # Server Name: WEB-VSQL1\INST1 # Current DB: chigi_intranet # Database : MSSQL 2005 * [2] SQL Detail # Databases List:       - chigi_intranet              - master              - tempdb              - model (LOCKED)              - msdb              - AAA (LOCKED)              - chigi_mag2006    ...

MISSOULA - Univision Computers, a company based in Missoula, is warning people about a fake antivirus alert pop-ups that could not only damage your computer, but could pull personal information from it. The FBI says it's called "scareware" because criminals try to frighten you into buying fake antivirus software with a seemingly genuine security warning. And here's how it works: a pop-up message comes up saying you have a virus. And to fix the problem, all you have to do is install the software. "Frequently they'll ask you for a credit card for payment and promise that they will fix whatever's wrong with your computer. Clients who do that discover that they have a charge on their credit card, their credit card information is out there for the crook who invented the scareware and their computer is often even further infected and sometimes completely disabled," says Penny Lyons, Univision Computers Customer Service Representative. Using this virus, th...