As cybercrime rises in Navi Mumbai, rape cases go up too: The cyber crime cell of the Navi Mumbai police commissionerate has informed that there is a disturbing trend of heinous crime against women like rape, after the victims were first threatened and blackmailed online through various social networking sites, emails by the culprits. Read More
Rise of Conservative Religious Ideologies’ Causes India to Fall 10 Spots on EIU Democracy Index: At a time when the political discourse on how essential dissent is for a democracy has become a mainstay in conversations, India has slipped to 42nd place from 32nd on the Economist Intelligence Unit‘s annual Global Democracy Index and remains classified among “flawed…
Take help of Facebook, Google to block porn: SC: In a bid to block porn sites on the Internet, the Supreme Court directed the government and the Information Ttechnology department to take the help of Google and Facebook to block objectionable sites that strea, child pornography. The Apex Court has suggested that the government should…
Cybercriminals tug at heartstrings to loot women: Panaji: Online fraudsters continue to find innovative means of duping people and the latest to fall victim are helpless women on matrimonial sites. The cyber crime cell of Goa police said that an average of eight cases are reported every year of women being swindled on the pretext…
27,482 cybersecurity threat incidents in India till June 2017: CERT-In: India witnessed more than 27,000 cyber security threat incidents in the first half of 2017, according to Minister of State for Electronics and IT P P Chaudhary’s reply in Rajya Sabha. Threats reported include phishing attacks, website intrusions and defacements or damages to data as well…
Indian consumers comfortable in sharing personal data online: report: Brands need to be more responsible with data as Indian consumers are far more trusting than those in other countries when it comes to sharing their personal data online if it improves their user experience, according to a study by consulting firm Kantar TNS. Read More
Google Maps to become smarter, can be accessed offline on weak data connection: The Indian story in 2017 seems to have been good for Google. Google Maps is seeing a 100% year-on-year growth in India now. “Thanks to larger data plans, people are not really concerned about bandwidth anymore and as a result, we see…
Kashmiri Journalists and Activists Face Twitter Censorship at Indian Government’s Request: Dozens of people who have tweeted about the conflict in Indian-administered Kashmir or shown sympathy for Kashmiri independence movements online may soon be censored on Twitter, at the request of the Indian government. The US-based social media company sent notices to users explaining that the Indian government had…
Bhopal: Fake social media accounts turning out to be a ban for women: Fake profiles running on social networking sites bother us all and we try to avoid entertaining any strange person on such sites to avoid trouble. However, in a profession where we are supposed to accept friend requests of strangers, what can one…
Despite low connectivity, slow speeds Indians can’t imagine life without internet: Though internet penetration in India has been relatively low, this has not stopped its people from falling in love with staying connected online. Most amount of people who said they ‘can’t live without the internet,’ stemmed from India, a report by Statista said on August 29.…