Threat of attacks on the cyberspace cannot be fathomed without accepting the fact that the internet, by definition, is an entity without any borders. What this implies is that cyberspace of a particular country or region cannot be excluded from the global network, which affects the latter and vice-versa. Cyberspace’s growth directly proportional to cyber…
Sachin Bansal, CEO of Flipkart, has extended his support to rival e-commerce marketplace Snapdeal, which has come under attack by users for its affiliation to Bollywood actor Aamir Khan. “This is flawed logic. Brands don’t buy into brand ambassador’s personal opinions. Snapdeal should not face this,” Bansal tweeted on Wednesday. Snapdeal brought in Khan as…
Cyberattacks on the private sector are an increasingly important risk in corporate credit analysis, US ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service said. The threat of computer hacking varies from sector to sector and remains hard to measure because intrusions often go undetected or are not publicly disclosed, Moody’s said. Likening cyberattacks to natural disasters, the agency…
The government said on Wednesday that there has been an improvement in the menace of call drops in Delhi as telecom companies spruced up their mobile infrastructure, but added that operators still remain short of the optimum quality benchmark mandated by the regulator. Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, however, said that the government does not…
Google today is celebrating the 94th birth anniversary of the ‘Milkman of India’ — Verghese Kurien. The doodle shows Verghese Kurien with a milk can in his hand, next to a buffalo with a looped rope on the ground spelling ‘Google’. Born on November 26 1921 at Calicut, Verghese Kurien graduated in Physics from Loyola…
The Royal Bank of Scotland is making Facebook at Work, the latest enterprise product from a company known for its consumer offerings, available to more than 100,000 employees. If you’ve never heard of Facebook at Work, don’t worry. Facebook is trialing the software, which competes against Slack (a buzzy messaging client for teams), email, Microsoft’s…
Syrian Electronic Army broke the news via a tweet saying, “Sorry @TrueCaller, we needed your database, thank you for it.” The hackers openly released TrueCaller’sdatabase host ID, username and password via another tweet. TrueCaller app is available on Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry andSymbian platforms. The app’s databases have access codes to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn…
Mark Zuckerberg today through a Facebook post announced that all Reliance subscribers across India can now access free Internet, for limited basic services, via Facebook’s Free Basics. In October last year, Facebook had launched Internet.org to provide basic Internet services for free of cost to Reliance customers in six Indian states- Tamil Nadu, Mahararashtra, Andhra…
VENUE: Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA), 1, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi, Delhi 110001. DATE: 10TH DECEMBER 2015 TIME: 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM ORGANISED BY : Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) DEF IMPACT team is launching the Country Research Report titled “Limited Access Restricting Expression” celebrating the human rights day on 10th December 2015. It will…
The Times of India has reported how a Nigerian fraudster duped a Hyderabad city based techie to the tune of Rs 1.4 lakh(about $2,200) by stealing his bank account details after infiltrating his mobile phone with a malware MMS – `greeting’. The victim is Srinivas, 28, a software engineer from Kukatpally. The Indian newspaper gives…