Mr M K Narayanan told The Times that his office and other government departments were targeted on December 15. A ‘Trojan’ virus was embedded in an e-mail PDF attachment. The virus was detected and officials were told not to log on until it was eliminated. This was not the first instance of an attempt to hack into India’s computers. People seem to be fairly sure it was the Chinese. China has denied any role in the hacking attacks. Read full story »
McAfee said that, the recent cyber attacks on Google and 20 other businesses in the US exploited a previously unknown flaw in Internet Explorer browser.All recent versions of Internet Explorer for the Windows operating system, including Windows 7, are vulnerable. Using Internet Explorer in “protected mode” with security settings at “high” would limit the impact of the vulnerability. Read full story »
In a recent blog post titled A new approach to China, Google announced that, Google may shut down their Chinese search engine Google.cn and close down their operations in China. This decision was taken in the wake of the recent cyber attacks on Google and a few other organizations, to get information from Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. The attacks were originated from China. In mid-December Google faced highly sophisticated and targeted cyber attacks on their corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. Read full story »
In China’s Henan province, citizens who send three or more erotic / sexy text messages (sexting) will be detained for a maximum of 10 days in jail and pay a fine of 500 yuan (approx. INR 3500). Liaoning province passed a regulation early this year saying that erotic text messages can be part of a sexual harassment charge. Read full story »
