India UK to hold biannual talk on cyber security

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In a bid to boost cooperation in the cyber security domain, India and the UK today decided to to conduct their Cyber Dialogue on a bi-annual basis to achieve objectives such as reducing the risk of threats from cyberspace to international security and tackle cyber crime.

This was announced after a comprehensive discussion between External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and his British counterpart William Hague on wide-ranging issues, including defence, counter-terrorism and cyber security.

A Joint Statement on Cooperation between India and the United Kingdom on Cyber Issues was also issued on the occasion. The statement noted that as part of the India-UK Strategic Dialogue, it was agreed that their Foreign Ministries would work together on areas of common interest in the cyber domain following which London Conference on Cyberspace in 2011 was organised by the UK. In October this year, the first structured dialogue between India and the UK on cooperation on cyber issues was held.

Both India and the United Kingdom share the core principles of liberty, transparency, freedom of expression and the rule of law which apply in cyberspace, the statement said. The objectives of the dialogue included enhancing international cooperation to reduce the risk of threats from cyberspace to international security and strengthening the bilateral cooperation to tackle cyber crime.

Further strengthening bilateral operational partnerships to identify and respond to threats from cyberspace and raise mutual resilience, collaborating on building skills and capacities to tackle threats from cyberspace and to use ICT for the objective of economic and social development are also part of the objectives, the statement said. It also include using existing cooperation between universities and business communities to develop synergy in research and development on cyber issues and creating a global multi-lateral, democratic and transport.

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A common man was arrested for allegedly duping a teenage girl

A common man was arrested for allegedly duping a teenage girl of Rs 3 lakh in cash and gold ornaments under the pretext of marrying her and creating a fake profile on a social networking site, police said on Wednesday. The accused identified as Rajapathi (31) was apprehended from Bowenpally area of the city and Rs 4,75,000 cash and gold ornaments weighing approximately 18.5 tolas which he had pledged to a gold financing firm were recovered, ADG (CID) S V Ramana Murthy said.

Rajapathi, who is merely 3.5 feet tall, morphed his actual photograph with the image of a handsome youth to create the fake profile on a couple of social networking sites, he said.
Explaining the modus operandi, Murthy said Rajapathi proposed the girl to marry him to which she agreed. Though he avoided meeting her in person, Rajapathi made her believe that his was the genuine proposal, he said, adding the accused asked the girl to fund his medical expenses claiming that he has some kidney ailment.
The accused himself collected Rs 3 lakh in cash and 50 tolas of gold from the victim during January to October by posing himself as friend of Rajapathi, Murthy said, adding he would identify himself as Sreedhar while collecting the cash and would tell the victim that Rajapathi was in hospital.
However, sensing that something was amiss, the girl filed a complaint with the Cyber Crime Police station on October 17 following which the investigation was carried out.
Police said the accused told them during investigation that he had also trapped two girls using the similar modus operandi and confessed to the crime.

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