Digital arrest: How India’s fastest-growing scam uses fake investigations and video calls to siphon off croresThey pose as the police, put you under ‘digital arrest’, and tether you to a video call till your savings are gone. How India’s fastest gro...
08 Jun, 2026, 11.13 AM IST
Bengaluru techie quit his Rs 30 lakh job to chase a dangerous dream, only to end up being arrestedDelhi Police have arrested a 31-year-old Bengaluru-based software engineer, Ravi Rathore, for allegedly running a fake online trading racke...
12 May, 2026, 07.45 PM IST
War without borders: The rise of cyberattacks beyond the battlefieldCyber conflict has escalated beyond borders following US-Israeli strikes on Iran, with hacktivists and state-backed actors launching global...
10 May, 2026, 09.04 PM IST
Mother's Day Special: How AI, apps are empowering women to manage finances, improve health, build careerWomen are learning to keep pace with the ubiquitous apps and AI, shrugging off dependence on their kids for financial transactions, online ...
04 May, 2026, 06.30 AM IST
Millions of Rockstar Games business records stolen, hacking group saysA hacking group named ShinyHunters claims to have stolen millions of business records from Rockstar Games, the maker of Grand Theft Auto. T...
14 Apr, 2026, 07.52 AM IST
Complete deployment of crime tracking software by March, PM Modi tells Bihar“Governments of Bihar, Manipur and Rajasthan should complete data digitisation and migration of old records quickly. Deployment of CCTNS so...
05 Feb, 2020, 08.53 AM IST
Cyber criminals hide in the ‘dark web’ to remain anonymousThe most significant feature of this world is that the identity of its users is hidden and cannot be tracked
02 May, 2019, 10.59 AM IST
Over 90 per cent police stations logging FIR details in national databaseAbout the 14,243 police stations, out of 15,640, are now entering 100 per cent FIRs through CCTNS, which is 91.06 per cent," a Home Ministr...
16 Sep, 2018, 02.11 PM IST
Secured data connectivity in over 15,000 police stations: Hansraj AhirMinister of State for Home Hansraj Ahir said during the Question Hour that secured data connectivity, as part of the CCTNS project, was ava...
02 Jan, 2018, 02.30 PM IST
Police verification for passport to go online within a yearThe police agencies can conduct 11 searches with the national crime & criminal database and also track 46 crime analytics reports for data-...
22 Aug, 2017, 09.19 AM IST
13 states, UTs registering 100 per cent FIRs online under CCTNSHowever, so far no FIR was registered in Bihar, Rajasthan and Lakshadweep under the CCTNS despite 1,771 police stations of the two states a...
26 Jan, 2016, 06.08 PM IST
Kerala to commission 'CyberDome' to fight online crimesCyberDome is envisaged as a primary monitoring unit for the internet & nodal centre for policing social networking sites and anti-terror ac...
16 Oct, 2015, 03.15 PM IST
PM Modi interacts with Bengaluru police station on digital policingShowing keen interest, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought details of the state-of-the art digital policing put in place at the Cubbon Park...
31 Aug, 2015, 03.31 PM IST
Gujarat constable Dilip Thakor's crime-fighting software go nationalDilip Thakor, a constable with Ahmedabad police, has developed more than a dozen software aimed at helping the police in crime prevention a...
20 Jun, 2015, 12.29 PM IST
- Police use hi-tech to stalk criminals
Security agencies are taking crime-fighting to the next level helped by sophisticated information technology solutions like predictive anal...
06 Jan, 2011, 07.21 AM IST
- More tools developed to crack cyber crimes
Law enforcing agencies are now armed with more software tools to fight cyber crimes with a premier centre claiming to have developed them.
24 Aug, 2008, 05.39 PM IST
- IB, CBI get e-tool to tackle cyber crimes
In a move to tighten cyber security, India’s law enforcement agencies (LEAs), such as CBI and IB, are set to deploy an advanced IT forensic...
08 Mar, 2007, 01.56 AM IST