Cyber crime is no longer an alien term for anyone today. We have been hearing about it, reading about it and talking about it, quoting examples of some victims or fraudsters. With advancements in technology, criminals and their ways of commiting crimes are also getting advanced. To tackle this menace, we need some strong cyber crime prevention measures, may be in the form of cyber cells or cyber activity monitoring services. In India, we have very few cyber cells that can be easily counted on fingers. Of course this is not enough to address the enormous issue of cyber crime.
Recently, Mohali police took a lead in getting the state’s first cyber crime police station-cum-forensic science laboratory. The Rs 8-crore state-of-the-art project will end the Punjab Police’s dependency on forensic science laboratories in other states for various tests.
The building — which will house a cyber crime police station and laboratories in Physics, Texilogy, lie-detection, Biology, Chemistry and Ballistic, as part of forensic science — will come up within two years. The Punjab Police Housing Corporation (PPHC) is the executing agency of the project. Also, a training institute, the Punjab Police Training Institute for private security guards at Jahan Khelan is expected to complete by June 2009. The institute, which is worth Rs 10 crore, will provide training to 4,000 security guards every year and with the implementation of the Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2005.
This project is a step forward for the Punjab Police towards becoming cyber-savvy and a hi-tech police force with effective investigation of crimes through advanced modes. Such steps are what is needed to ensure that the technology does not harm people. Such steps indicate that India is getting ready to tackle hi-tech crime.
New way of fraud and internet scam (Internet Service Provider Consortium fraud)
This is to aware the chief executives of every company about the new way of fraud and internet scam. They might receive an mail (sample given below) which is scam and completely trying to compromise the system as well as network. The sender poses itself as a part of Internet Service Provider Consortium fraud team.
Here’s how the email would look like:
From: Monitoring Team Date: 11/08/08 08:33:29
To: client Subject: Your internet access is going to get suspended
Your internet access is going to get suspended.
The Internet Service Provider Consortium was made to protect the rights of software authors, artists.
We conduct regular wiretapping on our networks, to monitor criminal acts.
We are aware of your illegal activities on the internet which were originating from
You can check the report of your activities in the past 6 month that we have attached. We strongly advise you to stop your activities regarding the illegal downloading of copyrighted material of your internet access will be suspended.
Sincerely
ICS Monitoring Team
The analysis of cases reveal that these are new way of social engineering techniques to enter into the secure network or system. They provide attachment which is Trojan dropper, which will install after opening the detail attachment. After installation system will be in a compromised state and the whole information of the system will be sucked passively.
Remedial method to safeguard yourself from such an email is by deleting such an email straightaway. Also do not open the attachments.
For further assistance please mail to advice [at] agapeinc [dot] in
How many times have we seen companies suffer huge losses for the simple reason of security lapse! Traditionally security is perceived as an expenditure that erodes our bottom lines and budgets. Such an approach towards security needs to be reinvented to keep pace with the dynamic changes in our IT security landscape. To answer such various security threats, a 3 day conference began yesterday in Singapore that would conclude tomorrow.
The annual event called Governmentware 2008, is presented by The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Singapore. This year’s theme, “Positive Security: Empowering Business Models of the Future”, highlights the need for all players in the infocomm ecosystem to adopt a more forward-looking paradigm in confronting IT security issues. The conference will be filled with action-packed demos with an attempt to encourage participants to embrace IT security as an opportunity to solve critical problems.
The conference program aims to highlight on the following points:
Security Issues related to Electronic Identities
Personal Digital Protection in the New Cyber Universe
Latest Cryptography and Biometrics
Critical Infocomm Infrastructure Protection
Database Security
Secure Wireless Sensor Devices
Wireless Security
Secure Collaboration Framework
nline Forensics
DIVA (Dynamic Isolation of Virtualised Applications)
It’s a sensible initiative that is being taken by many Indian states to empower its law enforcement officers with forensic training. With the evolving technologies, criminals are making full use of them to execute their criminal activities. And in such a scenario, the law enforcement’s old methods fall flat as they are not acquainted with the technology and thus many crimes go unnoticed.
Recently the Karnataka state government announced a scheme to train police constables in forensic science, with a view to curb terrorism and major crimes, particularly in the light of the recent serial bomb blasts in Bangalore. This is part of government’s effort at modernising the State police and ensuring that they are tuned to the changing nature of crimes. After the completion of the training, the police constables will be designated as crime scene investigators.
Around 876 police constables would be trained under the program which is set to be launched on October 13. The second batch of the same program would begin after the first batch is over and would consist of police constables from various police stations, railway police, women police and the traffic police. It is worth noting that Karnataka, which is a leader in forensic science among the police forces of the country, is the first State to evolve such a system. As an extension to the training programme, around 1000 CDs of the training module would be provided to all police stations in the state.
The increase of IT systems in the pharmaceautical companies has not only accelerated their growth, but has also posed new challenges. The biggest challenge for each of such companies is the supply chain fraud threat.
Here is a report that provides more insight on the same.
Every time we hear the word ‘CRIME’, we only think of robberies, murders and detectives examining the crime scene, interrogating witnesses and finally nailing the guilty. But we never think outside these instances because we feel that crime is bound only to these boundaries. But this is not true at all. Today, cyber crime accounts as the most troublesome crime, troubling individuals and corporations alike. All the detailed information on the importance of cyber forensics is provided in the article below.
Tips + Case Study + Valuable Information @ computer forensics. That’s what the links for today are all about.
1. Ray Weikal feels criminals are increasingly using the P2P and FTP file sharing protocols for executing their tasks. He discusses the road to cyber safety. Read more
2. Why is FBI stumped after recovering a secret audiotape? Read more
3. Technology is changing and so are the crimes related to it. This increases the need for the computer forensic experts, but what are their responsibilities? Read more
In the past week i had presented the top 10 security threats for the year 2008. Below i am mentioning a detailed report on those threats and the issues related to them. This report has been made by our Fraud Management expert: Mr. Prabhat Tiwari.
Today, i am presenting links which are mostly information based, but very useful at the same time. The links provide effective tips which everyone should know, to avoid being caught in a major internet security breach disaster.
Dating can be dangerous in the cyber world. Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner Linda Kelly explains the right way. Read more
How to prevent cyber cops from ringing your doorbell. Read more
Ensure your data is recovered before a disaster occurs. Read more
We have been providing an array of services to our clients over the past years. From data recovery to vulnerability testing, from forensic investigation to support for proprietary products; we have been doing it all. Through this we have gained valuable experience and expertise in various projects. Also this has resulted in providing more services which are complex in nature and require expertise.
Mentioned below are the services that we currently provide.
