Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has promised to tackle the trolls on the social networking website that are cyber-bullying users. In recent memos to employees, Costolo wrote that bullying could be driving users away and has promised tough action.
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The impact of SHE teams in the city has become more pronounced with hundreds of citizens informing the team about spots where stalkers lurk. The Inbox and Wall of Cyberabad SHE teams’ Facebook page is flooded with tip-offs and complaints from parents, teachers and victims. The police has arrested 50 eve-teasers in the last 45…
The much awaited high security remote-controlled command system at Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple will be inaugurated by chief minister Oommen Chandy on February 11. The electronic surveillance equipment, part of the second phase security enhancement at the temple, will be switched on by home minister Ramesh Chennithala. Devaswom minister V S Sivakumar will
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It all started with a small, tucked away sentence in Samsung’s SmartTV security policy. The head-scratching string of words was pointed out by a Redditor on Thursday and has since sent websites and experts in debate over smart TV privacy, with opinions ranging from “so what” to quoted text from 1984.
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When the BJP was preparing for its election campaign in Maharashtra last year, the party’s digital war room turned to a two-year-old startup, Mobiliya, to secure its data and communication. The BJP, wary of leaks, used the startup to remotely lock phones, wipe entire data stacks if a phone was lost, encrypt emails and block…
A barrage of damaging cyberattacks is shaking up the security industry, with some businesses and organisations no longer assuming they can keep hackers at bay, and instead turning to waging a guerrilla war from within their networks.
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Utah state officials have seen what they describe as a sharp uptick in attempts to hack into state computers in the last two years, and they think it related to the NSA data center south of Salt Lake City. The increase began in early 2013 as international attention focused on the NSA’s $1.7 billion (roughly…
Soon after we moved to Mumbai a few years ago, we were informed that our dog needed a licence from the municipal authorities. Not wanting the favourite member of the family deemed an illegal alien, we set out to obtain one. We entered the building with trepidation, born out of years of frustrating and mind-numbing encounters in government offices, expecting…
The vision of Digital India has caught the attention of several corporate, not-for -profit organisations as well as educational institutions. Making use of its reach in rural areas, the Information and Communications Technology Academy of Tamil Nadu (ICTACT), supported by the Department of Information Technology, Government of Tamil Nadu, is set to launch its Digital…
To achieve the goal of ‘Digital Haryana‘ and keep pace with rapidly evolving technologies, the Haryana government will launch an Information Technology(IT) mass literacy scheme (Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan), to make the people of the state digitally literate.
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