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CyberCrime – Price List for Your Credit Card Details

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Jan 202011
 
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So, all you schmucks think your credit card or bank account information is safe?

Ha ha ha.

Think again, fellas.

Security software provider Panda Labs has concluded a study on the CyberCrime black market.

And the results make for very interesting reading.

Here are the CyberCrime black market rates for sensitive, precious information pertaining to your finances:

Products Price
Credit card details From $2-$90
Physical credit cards From $180 + cost of details
Card cloners From $200-1000
Fake ATMs From $3,500
Bank credentials From $80-700 (with guaranteed balance)
Money laundering From 10 to 40 percent of the total
$10 for simple accounts without guaranteed balance
Online stores and pay platforms From $80-1500 with guaranteed balance
Design & publishing of fake online stores According to the project (not specified)
Purchase and forwarding of products From $30-300 (depending on the project)
Spam rental From $15
SMTP rental From $20 or $40 for three months
VPN rental $20 for three months

Source: Panda Labs

Here’s an excerpt from the Panda Labs‘ study:

This cyber-criminal black market caters to buyers’ needs just as any other business, and functions in similar ways. Since there is a great deal of competition in this industry, the rule of supply and demand ensures that prices are competitive, and operators even offer bulk discounts to higher-volume buyers. They will offer free ‘trial’ access to stolen bank or credit card details, as well as money back guarantees and free exchanges.

However, since it is a black market, there are clearly many areas that differ from traditional business. Since anonymity is of the utmost importance, many sellers use underground forums to keep out of sight. Their offices are effectively the Internet, though they even go as far as advertising their ‘office hours.’ Some are more brazen about their activities, and have accounts on Facebook and Twitter which they use as shop windows. To ensure anonymity, contact is always made across instant messaging applications or free, generic email accounts.

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India Digest – Manmohan, Supreme Court, Abhishek

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Jan 202011
 
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* Cabinet Reshuffle – If Manmohan Singh eventually notches up any achievement to his credit, it’ll be for preventing Rahul Gandhi’s easy accession to the throne. A corruption scandal a day and this budda is blithely shuffling around the rickety chairs on the falling deck as if all’s well with the nation.

Maybe, a shot of Viagra will jolt the Sikh fella out of his stupor.

Or, is this the Sikh sick revenge for the massacre of Sikhs following Indira Gandhi’s assassination. What did Rahul Gandhi’s father Rajiv Gandhi say: When a big tree falls…..

* Plunder, eh? Really? – India’s Supreme Court has finally come to the earth-shattering conclusion that Black Money stashed abroad is plunder of the nation. How did these fellas pass their law exams?

BTW, if we’re bringing back Black Money parked abroad, could we pleeze start with the Bofors loot.
(Hindu)

* Non-News of the Day – UAE to support India’s UNSC bid.

How many of you can locate this UAE dot on the map?
(Hindustan Times)

* Abhishek Bachchan, Ha Ha Ha – It’s hard to talk about our favorite Bollywood non-actor Mr.Aishwarya Rai without falling off our chair in sheer ecstasy at his comic antics onscreen and offscreen. ;)

Our little twit is all atwitter, on Twitter, obviously, at encountering Ganesh Ji at a shoe-businessman’s house in Milan, Italy.

No, Ganesh Ji is not a Union minister or Bollywood producer but a statue of the elephant-headed Indian God.
(Times of India).

Ganesh Ji, please give this poor twit a hit. ;)

Now with Ganesh Ji’s permission we’ll get back to our Gin.

India Digest – India Distilled Daily by SI

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How Lazy can Some Schmucks Be?

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Jan 202011
 
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It never ceases to amaze us that some regular readers of SI are too lazy to even bookmark our web site or type the fairly easy to remember URL in the browser.

Each time these folks want a SI fix, they do a search on the major search engines for ‘Searchindia’ or ‘Search India’  to reach at our online home. Newbies do the same too. Worse, some even search for ‘SearchIndia.com.’

No kidding.

Say, how difficult can it be to bookmark us or drag our URL to the Bookmark toolbar in Firefox or IE, or, horror of horrors, to take the trouble to type in the simple URL.

BTW, the name is SI, SearchIndia.com (a la Bond, James Bond).

Hard to understand our people.

Just impossible.

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Queen Oprah as Goddess Kali

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Jan 192011
 
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We’ve never understood the Oprah phenomenon (for all ye schmucks in boondocksville, the fat cow is the QUEEN of American talk show).

But then we’ve never understood a lot of stupid things that the hoi polloi go gushing ooh and aah about.

Sorry, understanding stupidity is just not our forte.

The sight of Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah’s couch and making an ass of himself on her show only served to further estrange us from the fat cow.

But when the latest issue of New Yorker (January 24, 2011) featuring a picture of Oprah a la Goddess Kali reached us today, we were intrigued enough to read the accompanying piece on Oprah’s new cable channel OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) by Nancy Franklin (p.72-74).

Oprah -The New Kali
(Image: New Yorker)

Much to our delight, Franklin slams the new channel:

OWN isn’t about experimentation or risk-taking; it’s about empire-building and image-inflating….From what I’ve seen so far, it’s numbingly unimaginative and middle of the road.

Well said.

But if the past is any guide, there are enough million dolts here who’ll eventually make the channel a success.

For those of you interested in reading the New Yorker piece on Oprah and her OWN channel, here’s the link.

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Siruthai – Ha Ha Ha, Kazhuthai at BO

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Jan 192011
 
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This Karthi fella, sibling of sori padam Surya and son of Monkey dancer Sivakumar, is going the way of his peers – that is taking the trash road to infamy.

No surprise then that the box office numbers of Karthi’s movies reflect that.

Here’s how Karthi’s new film Siruthai fared at the UK box office compared to a few recent Tamil movies:

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Documentary Filmmakers Win $50m Lotto

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Jan 192011
 
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Just in time for the upcoming Sundance Film Festival, Ford Foundation has rolled out a $50 million global initiative called JustFilms to support documentary filmmakers focusing on social issues.

JustFilms intends to invest $10 million a year over the next five years to support documentary filmmakers who lack funding to realize their visions or reach audiences.

Ford Foundation said JustFilms would focus on film, video and digital works that highlight courageous people confronting difficult issues and pursuing a more just, secure and sustainable world.

Different Genre
The documentary as a genre of filmmaking has gained some traction in the U.S. lately thanks to bold directors like Michael Moore but is virtually unknown in countries like India that make tons of films every year, albeit most of it garbage.

Philip Cox has recently made a documentary film set in Kolkata called The Bengali Detective that will be shown at Sundance.

The good news is JustFilms is a global initiative: It plans to leverage Ford Foundation’s global network of 10 regional offices to identify new talent from around the world and to strengthen emerging communities of documentary filmmakers.

Let’s hope some of the moolah goes to Indian filmmakers and that the initiative spurs them into putting out daring documentaries on the countless social problems plaguing the godforsaken country.

Three Paths
JustFilms plans to pursue three funding paths:

* Partnerships with major organizations such as the Sundance Institute, the Independent Television Service and others
* An ongoing open application process that will help JustFilms stay attuned to fresh ideas and stories wherever they may emerge
* Partnership with other Ford Foundation grant-making programs where the introduction of documentary film could help draw attention to an issue or advance a movement

Award winning filmmaker Orlando Bagwell and Ford Foundation executive will direct the JustFilms initiative. Continue reading »

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