Delhi police to augment its cyber units: New Delhi, May 9 (PTI) The Delhi Police is planning to strengthen its cyber units at district levels with more manpower and equipment, police commissioner Amulya Patnaik today said. The officer was speaking at a workshop on cyber safety awareness for school teachers organised by the police’s Economic…
Social media banned in Kashmir Valley: Bizmen, students question motive, say it will impact economy: The Jammu and Kashmir government has directed service providers in the Valley to block 22 websites, including popular social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, to contain the rising student unrest. Read More
India’s Poor Human Rights Record Under Scanner at the UN: The Universal Periodic Review Process(UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday, 4th May, 2017, scanned India’s human rights records. India faced the music from various countries, who talked about India’s recent track records in human rights violations. Starting from repealing…
Social media emerging as the most valuable target zones for cyber attackers: MUMBAI: Next time you post details about your workplace and job description on social media websites, be careful you could emerge as the potential target of hackers and cyber criminals. Cybercrime experts and forensic consultants say that hackers scour through social media database…
Will blocking social media apps replace Internet shutdowns in India?: The recent instance in Jammu and Kashmir, where 22 social media apps have been blocked, could be a start of a new trend: blocking specific apps instead of blocking access to the entire Internet. According to a tracker from SFLC.in, the Internet has been shut…
World Press Freedom Day: Indian Mainstream Media Still Doesn’t Get It: Today, 3 May 2017, is World Press Freedom Day. Many ‘eminent’ journalists of India have tweeted about it, lamenting the fact that India’s ranking for press freedom dropped by three points in 2017. Apparently, India now stands at the 136th position, behind countries like…
The Internet Ban In Kashmir Is A Clear Violation Of Human Rights And No One Seems To Care: Kashmir continues to bathe in the blood of its own people, falling prey to ‘stray bullets’ and ‘non lethal pellets’ fired from the guns of the Indian armed forces. Since July 2016, Kashmir has lost over 100…
Kashmiris find VPN way out of social media ban: Kashmir was back on social networks before the state government removed controls, courtesy Virtual Private Networks or VPNs. A user facing Internet censorship can use VPNs to create a secure connection to a more permissive country and browse the Internet as if he was situated in that…
India ranks 4th in online security breaches: CHERNNAI: As the risk of cyber threats looms over enterprises going digital, a Symantec study reveals that India ranks fourth when it comes to online security breaches, accounting for over 5% of global threat detections. The US and China occupy the top two slots and together make for…
India Bans 22 Social Media Sites to Calm Tensions in Kashmir: (SRINAGAR, India) — Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have banned 22 social media sites in an effort to calm tensions in the disputed region after videos depicting the alleged abuse of Kashmiris by Indian forces fueled protests. But the sites remained online Thursday as the…