The vital health parameters of veteran communist leader Govind Pansare returned to normal on Wednesday though he continued to be on ventilator support at the Aster Aadhar hospital in Kolhapur. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) asked the chief secretary and the director general of police to submit in four weeks their reports on the…
With three cases of cyber crimes registered during the last one-and-a-half month, Mizoram has witnessed 44 cyber crimes since 2009.
The first case of cyber crime was registered on May 20, 2009, which involved a pastor.
The pastor filed a complaint to the police that his email account was hacked by unknown person(s).
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Kaspersky Lab, the computer security firm has claimed that an NSA-linked spyingteam ‘Equation Group’ has discovered software that enables it to spy on home computers almost anywhere in the world. According to the Independent, Russian researchers at Kaspersky Lab said that the software gave the team the power to listen on the majority of the world’s computers. Read…
At a time when the companies are aggressively bidding for coal blocks being given through electronic auction, the Cabinet Secretariat has asked the Coal ministry to ensure strict compliance of security measures to guard against any possible cyber attacks.
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Iran is concerned by a Russian cybersecurity firm’s report suggesting a new family of malicious programs and worms is infecting computers there and elsewhere in the world, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said today. Without naming the United States as the source of the malware, the report by Kaspersky Lab said one of the programs has elements…
Internet and network security provider Check Point Software Technologies (CKP.N) plans to buy Israeli cyber-security start-up Hyperwise Security for $80 million, Israeli newspaper Calcalist reported on its website on Wednesday.
Israel-based Check Point declined to comment on the report. Officials at Hyperwise Security could not be reached to comment.
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Pune-based cyber security firm Uniken is entering the American market to sell its digital security technology that has been designed to protect large companies from sophisticated online attacks. Uniken has received four requests for pilot projects from large enterprises in the US in the past two months, CEO Sanjay Deshpande told ET, adding that company…
The guidelines, predominantly banning the use of cuss words, haven’t gone down well with filmmakers from across the country who are voicing their concerns about this ban on “creativity and freedom of expression”. Though the CBFC chairperson Pahlaj Nihalani, has said that he doesn’t mind being called conservative if he has to serve the nation,…
Last weekend’s shootings in Copenhagen are a test for Denmark. It’s tempting to argue that Denmark’s soft approach to dealing with radical Muslims has been found wanting. In truth, it’s the country’s conflicted approach to freedom of expression that demands closer scrutiny. In the wake of this year’s terror attacks on cartoonists who have mocked…
The Union government on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that they will withdraw the Look Out Circular issued against Greenpeace India activist Priya Pillai only if she gives an undertaking that she won’t depose before the UK parliamentary committee on violations in the country.
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