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Soccsksargen cops to put up more security checkpoints

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Brig. Gen. Alexander Tagum, director of Police Regional Office-12 (PNA GenSan photo) 

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – The Police Regional Office (PRO) 12 (Soccsksargen) will put up additional security checkpoints in the region’s boundary areas in line with its intensified campaign against criminality and terrorism.

Brig. Gen. Alexander Tagum, PRO-12 director, said Friday the new checkpoints would be established in strategic areas along the boundary highways of the region’s four provinces and four cities.

Tagum said the checkpoints would be operated by personnel of the Regional Mobile Force Battalion 12, which is tasked to monitor people and vehicles entering the region.

“This is part of our security preparations for the Christmas season and the upcoming elections,” he told reporters.

Tagum cited the regional police’s newly launched “Oplan Iron Clad” or Integrated and Revitalized Operation of Neighborhood Watch Against Criminality, Lawlessness, and Disasters.

As part of the campaign, he directed all provincial, city, and municipal police stations and offices to ensure the “round-the-clock” security monitoring and law enforcement within their areas of responsibility.

He cited the increased police visibility and the conduct of mobile security patrols 24/7 or 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

He said they would also sustain the implementation of Oplan Bakal-Sita and Oplan Bulabog along the highways, streets, and other public areas.

“This is to further deter the occurrence of crimes and ensure the safety and security of our communities,” Tagum said.

He said these strategies have been proven to be effective in maintaining peace and order and security in the region.

Tagum said the number of recorded index crimes in the area has dropped to 18.75 percent this year from 34 percent in 2016. (PNA) 

 

 

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Krishna cops get top spot in performance- The New Indian Express

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By Express News Service

VIJAYAWADA:   Krishna district superintendent of police (SP) Siddharth Kaushal said the district police stood first in the State in implementing six Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in policing, and gave awards to the respective wing heads here on Saturday. 

At a review meeting on key performance indicators, he praised the officials for topping the list.  Addressing the media, Siddharth Kaushalsaid the indicators–Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS), Investigating Tracking System for Sexual Offenses (ITSSO), Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS), Mobile Security Device Checker (MSDC), SC/ST investigation tracker operated by AP Crime Investigation Department and e-office–plays a major role in day to day policing, and are widely used by both central and State agencies in prevention and detection of crime. 

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Be on the lookout for a hacking attack in Pakistan, MP cyber cops tell the media

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Cyber-attackers who identified themselves as the “Pakistan Cyber Army” have hacked the website of India’s top police agency, officials said on Saturday. The website of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was hacked by programmers who left a message saying that the attack was in revenge for similar Indian assaults on Pakistani sites, Press Trust of India said. The hackers signed their message on the Indian police website: “Long Live Pakistan.”

The spokeswoman said she could not comment on Indian media reports that more than 200 other Indian sites had also been attacked by Pakistani hackers.

CBI authorities said they were working to restore the site, which offered information to the public.

“We came to know the CBI site had been compromised Friday night,” the spokeswoman told AFP, asking not to be named. “It will take us a couple of days to restore the site.”

The CBI has “registered a case” and is investigating the attack, she said.

She said she could not immediately say who was responsible for the attack.

The message posted on the CBI site said the attack was “in response to the Pakistani websites hacked by ‘Indian Cyber Army’,” the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.

“Hacked hahaa funny,” the message said. “Let us see what you investigating agency so called CBI can do” (sic).

Hackers had also infiltrated the server of the National Informatics Centre (NIC), which maintains most of the government’s websites, PTI reported. In August, a group also calling itself the “Pakistan Cyber Army” hacked into the website of independent Indian MP Vijay Mallya, a flamboyant liquor baron, who is also head of Kingfisher Airlines.

The group claims to have hacked a number of Indian websites in recent years, including India’s state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, in retaliation for Indian hackers accessing Pakistan sites. Indian IT specialists have long lamented what they say is a lack of awareness about Internet security across the country, including in the corridors of power.

Sunil Abraham, executive director of the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society, said it would have been easy for attackers to get into the CBI public site as it was…

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Cops allege ‘malware attack’ on MIDC servers; unidentified persons booked

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Mumbai: The Mumbai Police on Wednesday booked unidentified persons for launching a “malware attack” on the servers of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC), which impacted the portal’s database.

As per the complaint, it was a ‘ransomware attack’ and was detected on March 21, when the MIDC’s applications went down at 11 pm.

The servers are hosted in the MIDC headquarters in Mumbai.

“The ransomware ‘SYNack’ impacted the applications and database servers hosted on Cloud DC and DR (ESDS) and local servers hosted at MIDC HQ in Mumbai by encrypting the data stored in these servers,” the MIDC shared in a statement.

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Ransomware is a type of malware that threatens to publish the victim’s data or block access to it unless a ransom amount is paid.

A case has been registered under various sections of the Information Technology Act (IT Act) at the cyber police station.

This is not the first time that a state server has come under a cyber attack. Maharashtra Energy Minister Nitin Raut had informed a few months ago that the major power cut across Mumbai in October 2020 could also be a possible cyber attack on the city’s electrical infrastructure with an intent to disrupt the power supply.

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