INDUSTRY

Twitter has come

under hacker attack by a group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army. The

same group seems to have hacked into another website http://www.mowjcamp.org/

and has posted the same message, according to a report by TechCrunch, which

gave a rough translation of the message, apparently written in Arabic:



Iranian Cyber Army

This site has

been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army



iranian.cyber.army@gmail.com

USA think they

control and manage Internet by their access. But they dont. We control and

manage Internet by our power, so do not try to stimulate Iranian peoples

to.

Now which country

in embargo list? Iran? USA?

We push them in

embargo list Take care.

The attack

happened between about 10-11 pm Pacific time on December 17, 2009. The

homepage of Twitter was replaced by a black background page showing a green

flag and with a headline that read, in English: Iranian Cyber Army ... This

Website Has Been Hacked by Iranian Cyber Army.However, the microblogging

site resumed its operation in about an hour. Experts say now it would be a

good idea for users to change passwords of their Twitter accounts as well as

that of other accounts that share the same password as Twitter.

India ranks

eighth in the world for the largest number of illegal peer-to-peer (P2P)

activities (data sharing) with the highest level of film piracy of any

English speaking country, reveals a study based on tracking of downloading

IP addresses on P2P networks. The study was jointly conducted by Motion

Picture Association (MPA) and Dtechnet, an Internet company specialized in

providing software solutions to track and prevent piracy on their digital

content and online.

According to a

data obtained from April-September, 2009, Indian downloaders heavily used

P2P portals such as BitTorrent. About 6.5% of IP addresses located could be

tracked back to Indian IPs, the study said. This placed India as the fourth

largest downloader after the US (17.2%), the UK (10.7%) and Canada (8.3%).

What was surprising and therefore more alarming was that India has a very

low base of Internet penetration compared to the US and the UK. The study

suggests that most downloaders are concentrated in Delhi, Bengaluru, and

Mumbai. For instance, UTV promoted Kaminey is estimated to have been

downloaded just over 3,50,000 times, with around two-thirds of those

downloaders located in these cities.

BSNL officials

have been accused by Namakkal District Information Technology Association (NDITA)

for using a third party to set up broadband connection, paving way for the

person in question to gain monetary benefits by unethical means. NDITA has

also accused that some BSNL employees are making money out of this

word-of-mouth deal.

According to the

association, BSNL sends Sakthivel of Alfa System to the customers place,

who asks for broadband connection. Sakthivel introduces himself as BSNL

officials and is authorized by BSNL to setup the broadband

connection.Sakthivel uses this opportunity for his personal gains, a way to

make money by misinforming customers that their system, which is perfectly

working fine, has some problem with OS, LAN card and also says that the

system is infected with virus, said Ravichandran, president, NDITA.

Through this deal

with Sakthivel, some Namakkals BSNL officials are also getting monetary

benefits, NDITA alleged. Sakthivel affixes Alfa System stickers on the

systems sold by our association members. He also creates some technical

problems purposely that cannot be solved by the BSNL staff, noted

Ravichandran. This issue has become a quandary to the BSNL customers and

our association members as well who are losing their business due to this.

We want BSNL to look into the matter and take stern action immediately.