A new book by Amrita Chowdhury, country head of Mills and Boon subsidiary Harlequin India, is a blend of cyber crime, medical ethics and IP laws. Set in Mumbai, Washington and Guangzhou against the race to patent a new cancer drug, Breach is about ambition and revenge, hacking and ethics, youth and crime, love and heartbreak. Read…
The National Law School of India University (NLSIU) has suggested the introduction of cyber security as a component in schools and colleges for students often oblivious of online dangers, which includes them flouting India’s sometimes ambivalent cyber laws. The recommendation is part of the law school’s 9-point guideline submitted to the Union Ministry of Information…
Many people in the IT industry know what a source code analysis is. It refers to an extensive quality process that involves the combined tools of tests and analysis in preventing cyber crime. The so-called static code analysis process is the ultimate proven method that covers the whole code base, and identifies the areas in…
Indirapuram – Ramandeep, An Engineer working with a MNC in Gurgaon and living in Indirapuram has been cheated by the cyber criminals. On Tuesday evening, he received a phone call asking for his debit card number. The caller pretended to be from the HR Department of the company he works for. Since the call was…
The 11th edition of the ITechLaw Asia-Pacific Conference started on Wednesday in the city.
The event, ITechLaw, organised by the global forum for technology lawyers, is one of the largest annual lawyers’ conferences in India with 300 lawyers and 50 speakers from India and abroad participating, said forum president Sajai Singh.
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In what appears to be a disturbing trend, a number of students from Meghalaya studying in Delhi have approached police alleging that someone has hurled racial abuses at them on a social networking site in the past few months. According to the complainants, a particular Facebook page titled, “Save the Hindus of Himalaya”, has carried…
The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), Government of India, in association with the Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India and Government of Gujarat, is organising the 18th National Conference on e-Governance on January 30-31, 2015 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Senior Officers from the Government, Industry, academicians, technical experts and NGOs will participate in the…
An Aadhaar card can be issued a person anyone residing in the country for more than six months continuous provided he/she submits one of the 18 identity cards listed and an address proof, officials Venkat Somachar, chief coordinator, Centre for e-governance, and B. Shwetha, technical assistant, has said.
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has written to the Chinese government with some suggestions about cyber security policy making that might impact on precious source code. The firms, which are underneath an umbrella that includes the American Chamber of Commerce in China and 17 other such outfits, are asking for “urgent discussions” in which they expect to have some influence…
In a first, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today chose to address his remarks to the 18th National Conference on e-Governance via Twitter. The Prime Minister was supposed to attend the conference in person, but since he was unable to do so, he tweeted out his opening remarks. The Prime Minister in his Twitter conference said…