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Web Securities And Internet Crime: Imagine walking out of your front door and leaving it open, whilst you jet off on holiday for a week. Or parking your car in central London and leaving all of the windows open and your laptop on the front seat. Or even walking around town with your wallet hanging out of your pocket and your iPod on so loud that you couldn’t hear an airplane, let alone a pick pocket walking behind you.

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Police arrested Vladislav Horohorin, 27, at Nice airport in France on a US arrest warrant as he prepared to board a flight for Moscow.

The Ukranian-born fugitive, described by the US Secret Service as “one of its five most wanted cyber-criminals.

In the world”, is wanted for the trafficking of stolen credit card information on a “global scale”. Michael Merritt.

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According to data compiled using the Trend Micro's Smart Protection Network technology, there were more than 740,097 active infected machines across the GCC in the month of April, representing a 116% rise in less than a year.

"The numbers of compromised machines are a key indicator of how well the cyber criminals are doing in stealing from this region.The visible infections have more than doubled in less than one year. The bad guys are winning because in this region we are not taking security seriously," said Ian Cochrane, marketing manager, Trend Micro Middle East and Africa.

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Imagine walking out of your front door and leaving it open, whilst you jet off on holiday for a week. Or parking your car in central London and leaving all of the windows open and your laptop on the front seat. Or even walking around town with your wallet hanging out of your pocket and your iPod on so loud that you couldn’t hear an airplane, let alone a pick pocket walking behind you.

You are probably thinking, “Why would I do that, I am not stupid! “.

It is true to say, the majority of us would never do any of the things mentioned in my opening paragraph, because they are the basic security measures of life. Lock your front door, keep your windows closed when away and don’t leave anything worth pinching in your car.

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Taking a serious note of cyber crimes, the Bombay High Court has asked the state government to consider transferring to the Cyber Crime Cell from Amboli police station the investigation of a cheating complaint lodged by a senior citizen.

A division bench of Justices B.H. Marlapalle and Anoop Mohta on Friday asked the government to decide within a week whether it could transfer the complaint lodged by Cavas Majai. Majai, a Bandra resident who owns two petrol pumps, filed a petition alleging that the police did not act on his complaint last December against an employee of a mobile service provider.

Pradeep Havnur, Majai’s advocate, said that on November 30, 2009, Majai’s cellphone went dead and flashed the message ‘Unregistered SIM’. When Majai went to the BPL Loop Gallery on December 1 to get another SIM card, he was told that it had been reissued the previous day itself from their gallery in Jogeshwari.

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If you didn't know it, May was actually dubbed "Quit Facebook Day" and over 30,000 people quit using Facebook and cancelled their accounts. The user base for Facebook is estimated by some to be over a half billion users. I don't think too many of them knew about Quit Facebook Day. If anything manages to kill Facebook, it will not be privacy concerns. It will be scams on its naïve users. Right now nobody is quitting Facebook. And if they do quit they will probably be back. I, for one, decided never to join Facebook in the first place. It seemed like a slicker MySpace targeted at people who cannot figure out how to get an online presence any other way. But I should use it anyway. (MySpace and MarketWatch are both divisions of News Corp. /quotes/comstock/15*!nws/quotes/nls/nws  (NWS  15.37, +0.00, +0.01%) ) (You should note that there is a John C. Dvorak Facebook page, but it was done by someone posing as me.

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With more people using the internet, and the availability of the internet on every street corner, there has been a drastic increase in cyber crime. These can be committed against large companies, and individuals. It is easy for large companies and large wallets to stop cyber crime, but what about those on limited budgets? What is the solution for those who have fallen victim to cyber crimes?

First it is important to understand what cyber crime is. Cyber crime is a crime committed online via emails, or chatrooms or any other form of interaction that can take place online. It does not vary much from the same criminal misconducts committed in real life. The only difference is the fact that it is much harder to pursue these types of criminals, because they transcend the typical borders associated with countries and the jurisdictions of various law enforcement agencies may clash as a result.

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With just a few weeks to go before the football world cup kicks off in South Africa, my inbox is already starting to fill up with related spam and press releases. I’m a Rugby Union man through and through, a very happy one as it just so happens that I’m a Leicester Tigers fan, and have very little time for anything to do with soccer. Unless it’s the type you spell SOCA, that is. When the Serious Organised Crime Agency gets serious about organised criminal gangs participating in British cybercrime to the tune of £3.5 billion a year, anyone with an interest in online security has to sit up and take notice.

SOCA has warned that the bad guys are endlessly inventive, even going as far as impersonating SOCA officials themselves in order to perpetrate fraud recovery scams where victims are counselled with help to recover lost money, but in actual fact just end up getting fleeced all over again.

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If the unlimited virus concerns are troubling you, then there’s more. Now, botnets are available on rent for as cheap as $67 for 24 hours or $9 for an hour. This empowers anyone to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, sell fake antivirus software and relay spam to unsuspecting email users via millions of compromised PCs.

The cyberpunks are unanimously, hawking their wares via online forums and banner advertising. This readily reduces the barriers to entry for criminals who can't code, empowering relatively unskilled cyber criminals to inflict major damage and financial loss. "Organizations need to be wary of the fact that their critical online applications or services could be taken down in under a day by a criminal renting services from bot herders," said Rick Howard, director of intelligence at iDefense, a VeriSign's security intelligence service. It was an iDefense report that highlighted the entire botnet selling picture.

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1. Synopsis Of The Article.
Information Technology solutions have paved a way to a new world of internet, business networking and e-banking, budding as a solution to reduce costs, change the sophisticated economic affairs to more easier, speedy, efficient, and time saving method of transactions. Internet has emerged as a blessing for the present pace of life but at the same time also resulted in various threats to the consumers and other institutions for which it’s proved to be most beneficial. Various criminals like hackers, crackers have been able to pave their way to interfere with the internet accounts through various techniques like hacking the Domain Name Server (DNS), Internet Provider’s (IP) address, spoofing, phishing, internet phishing etc. and have been successful in gaining “unauthorised access” to the user’s computer system and stolen useful data to gain huge profits from customer’s accounts.

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