Advocate (Dr.) Prashant Mali's Blog

Google to face Criminal Defamation in a case filed by Vishaka Industries : Google India Private Ltd v Visakha Industries and another.  Criminal Appeal No. 1987 of 2014 Judgment date : 10.12.2019   ‪Indian Supreme Court said No Protection For Intermediary Under Sec 79 of the IT Act, 2000 From Criminal Defamation Before 2009 Amendment which was as a result of Shreya Singhal Case . Visakha Industries filed the complaint after the company said it issued legal notices asking Google India to take down the write-up. Google then moved the Andhra High Court for quashing the proceedings, but did not get any relief. Visakha Industries a public limited company, claimed that it manufactured asbestos cement sheets in all its plants in an environment-friendly manner, but was still targeted by the coordinator of the Ban Asbestos India group. The coordinator wrote a piece against the company, which it claimed injured its reputation.  Google had made it easier than ever before to disseminate the defamat

OTP SMS Bombing : A new type of revenge cyber crime technique  by people who just get sadist pleasure. Victim‘s Mobile Phone will start getting hundred/thousands of SMS in his message box from different SMS gateways like Flipkart, Ola, Uber, Zomato, Goibibo, Redbus etc. It can be from any sms gateway via a website which has 'Forgot Password' option on it.  Earlier, culprits use to run a script which had Forgot Password URLs of 6-7 websites in it and they had to just enter a mobile number of the target victim in the software script, the mobile number gets punched on that website forgot password option for the maximum times the website allows (10 times in many cases). So  now the victim gets 10 OTP messages from that gateway/company whoose 'Forgot Password' link was used and victims mobile number was punched by the culprit several times. Now a days, Black Hat Developers had developed free bombing apps (namely : Bomb-It-Up) which do the same job automatically having a sma