An INTERPOL notice is one issued by INTERPOL to share information between its members. There are seven types of notices, six of which are known by the colour in which the Interpol logo is printed, different colours denoting notices carrying different types of information.
Red Corner Notice:
An Interpol red notice is issued at the request of a country's law enforcement authority. The requesting country asks for a red notice to be issued when a criminal evades arrest and escapes from the country. Interpol's role is to assist the national police forces in identifying or locating those persons with a view to their arrest and extradition.
Two types of red notices can be issued:
1. Based on an arrest warrant and is issued for a person wanted for prosecution
2. Based on a court decision for a person wanted to serve a sentence.
Black Corner Notice:
The Black Corner Notice contains information related to unidentified dead bodies, specifically those related to individuals suspected to have died while using a false identity. This notice carries photographs of the dead body, time and circumstances related to its discovery, distinguishing features of the body, etc.
Blue Corner Notice:
It is an “International Request for Information Notice”. This notice is primarily used for tracing and locating a person when the decision to extradite has not yet been made. It may also be used to verify a person’s identity, to obtain particulars about his criminal record or to locate witnesses to criminal activity.
Green Corner Notice:
A Green Notice is an International Alert Notice that is used to provide warnings and criminal intelligence about persons who have committed criminal offenses, and are likely to repeat these crimes in other countries.
Yellow Corner Notice:
The Yellow Notice is an “International Missing Person Notice”. This notice is used to help locate missing persons, including children, or to help identify persons who may not be able to identify themselves such as a person suffering from amnesia.
Orange Corner Notice:
To warn police, public entities and other international organizations about potential threats from disguised weapons, parcel bombs and other dangerous materials.
INTERPOL-United Nations Special Notice:
Issued for groups and individuals who are the targets of UN sanctions against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. It was created in 2005 at the request of the UN Security Council. This is the only notice that is not issued with a coloured logo. When I enquired why, UN said they are against colour discrimination.A wonderful gesture indeed :-D.
Trivia:
Wonder what would be the colour of notice issued to its employees for termination?
Ans: The Pink (you were)Corner(ed) Notice inspired by the IT Companies in India. LOL!!!!!
Definition:
Pharming is a practice in which malicious code is installed on a personal computer or server, misdirecting users to fraudulent Web sites without their knowledge or consent. It is an attack by the hacker, aiming to redirect a website's traffic to another, bogus website
Phishing:
In phishing, the perpetrator sends out legitimate-looking e-mails, appearing to come from some of the Web's most popular sites, in an effort to obtain personal and financial information from individual recipients. This is done by luring the individuals to visit the websites by clicking on the links in the e-mail, which is more often due to the user's consent and interest due to the attraction, unlike in Pharming.
Pharming:
In pharming, individuals are not enticed like in Phishing. They are taken to these bogus Web sites without any notice. Larger numbers of computer users can be victimized in this case because it is not necessary to target individuals one by one and no conscious action is required on the part of the victim. In one form of pharming attack, code sent in an e-mail modifies local Host Files on a personal computer. The host files convert URLs into the number strings that the computer uses to access Web sites. A computer with a compromised host file will go to the fake Web site even if a user types in the correct Internet address or clicks on an affected bookmark entry. Some spyware removal programs can correct the corruption, but it frequently recurs unless the user changes browsing habits.
DNS Poisoning:
A particularly ominous pharming tactic is known as Domain Name System poisoning, in which the domain name system table in a server is modified so that someone who thinks they are accessing legitimate Web sites is actually directed toward fraudulent ones. In this method of pharming, individual personal computer host files need not be corrupted. Instead, the problem occurs in the DNS server, which handles thousands or millions of Internet users' requests for URLs. Victims end up at the bogus site without any visible indicator of a discrepancy. Spyware removal programs cannot deal with this type of pharming because nothing need be technically wrong with the end users' computers.
Consequences:
Once personal information such as a credit card number, bank account number, or password has been entered at a fraudulent Web site, criminals have the information and Identity Theft can be the end result.
For all the busy Air-travelers and dreamers, here are a few interesting facts and fundas. The following is a gist of the highs and lows in the Indian Aviation. So let’s begin on a positive note.
The Good:
Indian airports are facing heavy congestion, especially at the top rated airports. Oh! Oh! This is not bad news folks. This congestion comes as good news, at least in one way if not any other. The aviation growth in
However, as we know, a bright day is always followed by a dull evening and that is what we are going to look at now.
The Bad:
The congestion that brought us some good news did us more damage than good. According to a few analysts, this air congestion could have been stopped or at least reduced had they only seen the growth in the industry at the beginning of 2003. This coupled with the bitter verity that the navigational services and systems at most Indian airports are outdated by over 10 decades as compared to other airports worldwide. What is the expansion of any purpose, if the systems being used are from the age of the Christ?
If this is not enough for one bad day, what follows is like adding insult to injury.
The Ugly:
Wouldn’t it be delightful if
Forbes, in association with FlightStats, has released a list of “The Most Delayed Arrival Airports in the World for 2008” as reported by TOI (Times of
Lets hope the day only gets better for us.
