Cyber criminals targets mobile devices now
The findings from 2012 Norton Cybercrime Report revealed that cyber criminals are increasingly targeting mobile devices now and 21 per cent of the respondents have been a victim of either social or mobile cyber crime. The Internet safety advocate & director, Asia of Norton by Symantec, Effendy Ibrahim said 18 adults become a victim of cyber crime every second, resulting about 556 million adults across the world experienced cyber...
Malaysia brings topic of National Sovereignty in Internet era to ITU 2012
The rapid development in Internet has brought threats to the sovereignty of a country through cyber criminals and this have made our Information, Communications and Culture Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim raised the issue at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) World Telecom 2012 Conference and Exhibition which held in Dubai for 5 days. Yatim said that this issue should be discussed globally to ensure an understanding...
Police raids five illegal online gambling premises in Sarawak
Five illegal online gambling premises masquerading as cyber cafes were raided by police this week in Sarawak. Total of 23 persons were nabbed and 67 computers were seized by the police in the operation and will be investigated under the Common Gaming Houses Act 1953, The Borneo Post reported. According to the police, these premises were securely locked an equipped with close-circuit television (CCTV) and only regular customers are...
Court finds a waitress guilty of credit card fraud
A 23-year-old Malaysian will enter jail for 2 months in Singapore after she pleaded guilty for criminal misappropriation and cheating. According to Straits Times, she fraudulently used a restaurant customer’s credit card which she picked up from the floor when she was working as waitress there. by Terry Brown
A mother of five kids pleads guilty on credit card fraud
A 37-year-old married woman was charged in Magistrate’s Court for credit card fraud. When she was nabbed in Kuching, she possessed 29 credit cards which she had applied fraudulently from 7 card issuing banks, by using the names and details of loan applicants without their knowledge since last year. She will be jailed for 58 months with a fine of RM14,500 after she pleaded guilty on the credit card fraud in the Court. by Alice...
Online gaming spoils your life
Total of 444 Malaysians have borrowed about RM30 million from illegal moneylenders or shark loans for online betting activities in the past nine months, MCA Public Services and Complaints bureau reported. The bureau head Datuk Michael Chong commented that the problem is getting worse because only 480 people came to them for assistance on RM20 million debts last year. Most defaulters were involved in online roulette and card games,...
WorldPay launches its mobile version payment page
WorldPay, the global leader in payment processing, risk and alternative payments launched its Mobile Payment Pages, a mobile version of Hosted Payment Pages which is designed to provide the perfect mix of optimisation and secure, easy-to-use payment processes for mobile devices. Besides supporting 3D Secure services (Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode) as one of its security measures, Worldpay’s Mobile Payment Pages comes with...
.my DOMAIN REGISTRY launches privacy policy
.my DOMAIN REGISTRY launched its Privacy Policy which can be found at http://www.domainregistry.my/en/privacy-policy.php, to compliant with The Personal Data Protection Act 2010 in the country. Under the new act, The Personal Data Protection Department of Malaysia was officially launched on 9th February 2012 by the Minister of Information, Communications and Culture, YB Dato’ Seri Utama Dr. Rais Yatim. by Alice...
Vietnam – The fastest growing Internet market in Southeast Asia
According to the InternetWorldStats.com, Vietnam is the fastest growing Internet market in Southeast Asia with more than 30 million Internet users in the country, just behind Indonesia as second largest market in term of number of Internet users in the region. Indonesia was reported to have over 50 million Internet users to date. by Terry Brown
Report says mobile shopping is growing
A report from Juniper Research projected the number of online shoppers via their mobile internet devices will increase by nearly 50 per cent over the next two years, from 393 million this year to 580 million by the end of 2014. Greater consumer confidence in the mobile content browsing and mobile payment mechanism are the key factors that drive the growth of mobile shopping globally, according to the report. by Alice...
