Kerala Cyber Police busted Up loaders and Downloaders of Bachelor Party Malayalam Movie

Kerala Cyber Police and Anti-Piracy Cell has registered a case on 08/09/12 for uploading the Malayalam movie ‘Bachelor Party’ in YouTube and other sites including torrent.  In this regard a case has also been registered against 1000 persons for uploading and downloading the film from the YouTube and other torrent sites.   It is reported that the film was uploaded by a person named Tejas Nair and the software company ‘Tamil Workers’.  Police investigation is in progress.

മലയാള സിനിമയായ ബാച്ചിലര്‍ പാര്‍ട്ടി യൂട്യൂബില്‍ അപ്‌ലോഡ് ചെയ്തവര്‍ക്കെതിരെ പോലീസ് കേസെടുത്തു. 12 പേരാണ് സിനിമ ഇന്റര്‍നെറ്റില്‍ അപ്‌ലോഡ് ചെയ്തതെന്ന് കണ്ടെത്തി. ഇന്റര്‍നെറ്റിലൂടെ സിനിമ കണ്ട ആയിരത്തിലധികം പേര്‍ക്കെതിരെയും ആന്റി പൈറസി സെല്‍ കേസെടുത്തിട്ടുണ്ട്. 1500 ഓളം പേര്‍ സിനിമ ഇന്റര്‍നെറ്റില്‍ നിന്ന് ഡൗണ്‍ലോഡ് ചെയ്തതതായും പരിശോധനയില്‍ വ്യക്തമായി.

16 പേരെ പ്രതിചേര്‍ത്ത് പോലീസ് കോടതിയില്‍ എഫ്.ഐ.ആര്‍ സമര്‍പ്പിച്ചു. 12 കേസുകളാണ് ഇതുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട് രജിസ്റ്റര്‍ ചെയ്തിട്ടുള്ളത്. വിദേശമലയാളികള്‍ അടക്കമുള്ള ആയിരത്തിലധികം പേര്‍ പ്രതികളാകുമെന്നാണ് സൂചന.

ഇന്റര്‍നെറ്റില്‍ സിനിമ അപ്‌ലോഡ് ചെയ്യുന്നത് നിരീക്ഷിക്കുന്ന ജാദുവിന്റെ സാങ്കേതികവിദ്യ ഉപയോഗിച്ചാണ് പ്രതികളെ കണ്ടെത്തിയത്. ഡൗണ്‍ലോഡ് ചെയ്തവരില്‍ ഇതിനോടകം തിരിച്ചറിഞ്ഞ് കഴിഞ്ഞവരെ സൈബര്‍ സെല്‍ ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥര്‍ ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടുവരുകയാണ്. പ്രതിപ്പട്ടികയില്‍ ഉള്‍പ്പട്ടവര്‍ക്ക് നോട്ടീസ് അയച്ചുകഴിഞ്ഞു.

The software used to trace downloaders is agent jadoo.  AGENTJADOO is a unique Anti Piracy Agent developed by Jadootech Solutions Pvt Ltd, Jadootech works in the area of enforcement of wide range of anti piracy protective measures for Digital Media Content Owners on cyber space. It is an anti piracy software it can trace the IP address of uploaders( seeders ),downloaders of the movie.The agent jadoo software will search for the keywords related to the movie and it will join the torrent network then it will record each ip address of persons who download the movie.  It’s features do scanning of all social media sites, torrents, streaming sites, file sharing cyber lockers for illegal contents. Its novel features track down and identify the culprits who have uploaded the illegal digital media content and pin them down to the location.

ഐ.പി അഡ്രൈസ് വഴിയാണ് പ്രതികളെ കണ്ടെത്തിയത്. വിദേശരാജ്യങ്ങളിലടക്കം സിനിമ ഇന്റര്‍നെറ്റിലൂടെ കണ്ടവരുടെ വിവരങ്ങള്‍ ശേഖരിച്ചുവരുകയാണ്. സി.ഡി റിലീസായി രണ്ട് ദിവസത്തിനുള്ളില്‍ ഇന്റര്‍നെറ്റിലീടെ ചിത്രത്തിന്റെ വ്യാജപകര്‍പ്പ് കണ്ടത് 33,00 പേരാണ്. മലയാളികളല്ലാത്തവരും ചിത്രം ഡൗണ്‍ലോഡ് ചെയ്തതായി ആന്റി പൈറസ് സെല്‍ കണ്ടെത്തിയിട്ടുണ്ട്.

Kerala Cyber Police traced a Missing Person

The Kerala State Cyber Police have successfully tracked a missing person solely with the help of Internet. A 33-year-old man, who was missing for the past 12 years, has been traced by Kerala Cyber Police after tracking his activities on an Internet social networking Site. This was the first case in the country where a missing person was tracked down with the help of Internet.

The Cyber Police, Thiruvananthapuram, which tracked down Jimmy Koruth, a then final-year degree student from Pandalam who went missing since November 1998. A man missing case was registered at the Pandalam Police Station. In January 2010, one of Jimmy’s relatives came across an Orkut profile named after Jimmy. The information was passed on to the Pandalam police immediately, which, in turn, handed over the case to the Cyber Cell.

The Cyber Cell contacted Google International in the US for tracking Jimmy’s email details and found out that the profile was created at a cyber cafe in Chennai in October 2008. The police obtained Jimmy’s address from the identity proof he had given in the cyber cafe. His father V.V.Koruth identified him from the images recorded by the security camera at the cafe.

Cyber crimes have been steadily on the rise in Kerala and the numbers may cross 50,000 this year (2010) said by Mr. Jacob Punnoose IPS, Kerala DGP recently.

Two held on Orkut Abuse against Sindhu Joy, SFI State President.

The Kerala Police have arrested two persons on the charge of defaming Ms.Sindhu Joy, SFI State President through Orkut, one of the most famous social networking website in India, with the help of Kerala Police Hi-Tech Cell.

The students’ leader, who has been successfully using the friendship network portal to interact with SFI activists and spread the message of the Federation among her other friends, has approached the Cyber Cell of Kerala Police with a written complaint against activities on Orkut that are derogatory to her. In the complaint filed at the Cell, Sindhu Joy specifically mentioned two communities in Orkut that she felt were formed with the intention of tarnishing her image. “One of the communities ‘I hate Sindhu Joy’ has several messages to defame me. I don’t know who is behind this community,” Sindhu Joy told. She first took up the issue with Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, who advised her to approach the Cyber Cell.

The case was enquired by the Hi-Tech Cell Team and identified the suspects as Prasobh Kumar (Age 32), a lecturer of the Centre for Management Development at Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram and Asok Kumar (Age 29), a project staff of the same centre, a Hi-Tech Cell official said. He also said that the suspects had used their office computers to create fake and defamatory communities of Sindhu Joy on Orkut. The case was then transferred to Thiruvananthapuram City Police for investigation.

Cyber Cell find out the creator of the defamatory community ‘I Hate Sindhu Joy’ as ‘A new Thought.!!!’ on 21 Oct 2007 and the second community ‘Sindhu joy time to defend’ was created by a user ‘Proper action’ on 19 Oct 2007. They traced the details of the creators of the two communities using Cyber Forensics software tools and information collected from Google Inc. and Internet Service Providers. The two fake communities were created from the computers of Center of Management Development, Thiruvananthapuram, an official said.

Thiruvananthapuram City Police arrested the accused persons and seized the computers that are used to create the communities and fake profiles from the Centre for Management Development at Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram. The seized computers are being sent to C-DAC (Center for Development of Advanced Computing, Thiruvananthapuram, for forensic analysis, a City Police official said.



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Cyber Crime Prevention Call Centre & Webportal will launch by Kerala CM

Cyber Crime Prevention Call Centre & Web Portal will launch by Kerala Chief Minister on 30th July 2007 by 10.30 AM at PR Chamber of Govt. Secretariate Thiruvananthapuram. This programme is one of the project of Kerala State IT Mission with the technical help of the Cyber Forensic Division of C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram to detect cyber crimes, its prevention and to given advice to the general public. Kerala Police Hi-Tech Cell is also linked with this programme. The web portal will give awareness about cyber attacks, virus, torjan, various security tips & tricks. It will also has a forum to discuss about various cyber related matters by the genral public, IT expert and law enforcement officials. The Call Centre will give advice to the general public about the cyber crimes and its prevention and reporting of cyber crimes incidence.

Source: PRD Govt. of Kerala.

Kerala Chief Minister's fake profiles in Orkut.com

Cyber Police have received a number of complaints against social networking sites like Orkut that’s teeming with fake profiles of women and Ministers of Sate.

In a recent development, the State Police have requested ‘Google’ to provide the IP address and other details of fake profile creators. This will stop cyber crimes to a great extent. Fake profiles inviting the company of women have been the major attraction in Orkut recently.

The first complaint registered by the Police was from Adarsh, a web developer in Kochi. He found that another profile has been created with his name, photograph and phone number. The issue became grave when he found that the other person has been posting obscene pictures and messages in this profile. The Police was successful in tracing the culprit.

There’s another group targeted by fake profile-makers - ministers. Profiles of Co-operation Minister G Sudhakaran - describing him as a friend and a man of eccentricities - are already in Orkut. This is in addition to a number of communities (groups of members on specific topics) on him.

While some of them merely give his personal profile, a few have gone to the extent of terming him a ‘lunatic’. Profiles of the Chief Minister are also available online.

Even though there has been a flood of Cyber Crimes, Police find it difficult to deal with them as only a few complaints come under the Information Technology (IT) Act. ‘‘Section 65 of the IT Act identifies hacking as a crime. In Section 66, unauthorised access is a crime and Section 67 identifies exhibition of pornographic materials as a crime.

Source: Newindpress

CM's website hacking: State Police to sent ‘Letter of Rogatory’

The State police are planning to sent a ‘Letter of Rogatory’, a formal request by a Court to the Interpol, to get certain details pertaining to the Chief Minister's website hacking case.

Though the State police had earlier sent a request to the Interpol Wing attached to the CBI seeking the details through their counterparts in the US, Russia and China, they refused to had over the requests for want of a ‘Letter of rogatory’.

They have however preserved the electronic evidence including log files required by the State Police to crack the case.

The State Police are concerned that this would delay the investigation. The State Police would prepare the draft ‘letter of rogatory’ and send it to the Interpol wing of CBI who will forward it to the External Affairs Ministry.

The letters would be later produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate and letter would be forwarded through the court.

It may be recalled that the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau had initiated a ‘letter of rogatory’ for collecting certain details from a French company involved in the Brahmapuram power plant corruption case.

Chief Minister's website ‘www.keralacm.gov.in’ was hacked and inserted objectionable contents. The police had found that the site was hacked from Internet Protocol addressed located in the US, Russia and China following the help of Interpol was sought.
Source: newindpress

Hacking of CM's Website - Kerala Police sought INTERPOL help

The Kerala Police have sought the assistance of the International Police Organisation (INTERPOL) to track those who behind the hacking of the official Website of Kerala Chief Minister www.keralacm.gov.in.

Hackers had inserted links to objectionable contents in the CM’s Website. New topics were created in the Discussion Forum and links to certain websites with objectionable contents are inserted.

The Website was hacked by unidentified persons four times recently. The Hi-Tech Crime Enquiry Cell of Kerala Police with the help of C-DAC Cyber Forensic Division Experts traced the IP (Internet Protocol) Addresses. These addresses are located in the US, Russia and China. Meanwhile, the official Website run by C-DIT has been pulled out from the World Wide Web for an overhaul.

Source: Newindpress