Vishing - The New Internet Crime

March 31st, 2009 Be prepared to protect your data in the internet or else you may land up in serious trouble. With our increasing dependency over the internet, the crimes have taken a steep hike too.

January 19th, 2009 This is such a simple trick that if I tell you how, you will laugh your hearts out. But its extremely useful nonetheless.

November 5th, 2006 Batman has grown old, very old. Most of his crime-fighting colleagues have passed on years ago.

August 10th, 2006 Nearly one in 10 people in UK believe they have fallen victim to identity fraud, according to a survey of 2,200 adults by YouGov. People aged under 30 are most prone to falling victim because they are the poorest at protecting personal details, the survey suggests.

December 22nd, 2005 On this website Internet Explorer users have snatched back their majority share. Internet Explorer users comprise 49.08 % of total users.

August 18th, 2005 Asia leads in world in total number of people using the internet. 34.5 % of the world's internet users are Asian.

July 14th, 2006 Butera & Andrews, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm filed suit against IBM in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

September 3rd, 2006 A Kolkata girl, Sulagna Ray, was arrested on Friday morning from her Behala home for using stolen credit card details of US residents, whom she served during her work at a call center selling DishTV, to buy goods worth $4, 500. The call centre, where Sulagna worked, does the back-end operations of another e-commerce site in the US.

December 7th, 2007 Microsoft was the sole leading browser (all versions combined) in 2002-2003 with over 85% of market share. The earlier leader Netscape had by then sunk into oblivion.

January 12th, 2006 U.S. continues to lead with nearly 200 million Internet users at the end of 2005, China and India are now in second and fourth place among Internet users. India boasts 50.6 million internet users.

December 14th, 2004 Occassionally Google Desktop Search contacts internet, even when I am not using it. This makes me nervous.

November 8th, 2006 Internet search engine leader, Google has warned Australia (why does Google start sounding like Microsoft with each passing day?) of going back to "pre-internet era" if the proposed changes to Australia's copyright laws are legislated. "Given the vast size of the Internet, it is impossible for a search engine to contact personally each owner of a web page to determine whether the owner desires its web page to be searched, indexed or cached," Google said Tuesday.

October 21st, 2005 I use and test my web applications and blogs primarily on Firefox these days. I do however occassionally look at Internet Explorer.

February 17th, 2006 5 years in slammer seems a bit too much punishment for simply playing online poker, isn't it? The Internet Gambling Prohibition Act proposes to make it illegal for Americans to use the Internet for gambling and would authorize law enforcement officials to stop credit card payments and other forms of electronic payments. Violators would be subject to up to five years in prison.

August 30th, 2007 He Ling from China has the best solution. Jiang Ming of Chengdu city promised his dear wife, He Ling, that he would not go on the Internet anymore and would spend more time at home to take care of their newborn son.