India has not been able to identify the criminals behind cyber attacks against government establishments that were used to transmit classified information to overseas servers. “It may be noted that due to complexities of the cyber domain, it has been difficult to identify the exact beneficiaries of these attacks,” Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth wrote to…
Calling the destructive cyber-attack on Sony Pictures “a game changer,” a top White House official on Tuesday announced a new intelligence unit to coordinate analysis of cyber threats, modeled on similar U.S. government efforts to fight terrorism.
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Facebook, Yahoo and other technology firms announced the creation of a “ThreatExchange” to share information to help thwart cyberattacks. “ThreatExchange is built on the existing Facebook platform infrastructure… So that partner companies can query the available threat information and also publish to all or a subset of participating organizations,” the social network said in a…
In the wake of the Sony Pictures Entertainment cyber hacks that took place last year, the US government is forming a new agency to monitor cyber security threats, pooling and analyzing information on a spectrum of risks.
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According to Twitter’s latest transparency report, India government authorities requested for removal of only 15 posts from Twitter for the period of July to December last year. Google, on the other hand, received 2,794 data requests from the government agencies from January to June 2014, a number that has increased every reporting period since the…
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court today observed that malicious and defamatory statements in the name of freedom of expression could not be justified. The court was remitting a case challenging the order of a sessions court, which directed two persons in the case to pay a fine of Rs.9,000 each instead of…
Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today sought private participation in the ambitious Smart City project as it requires massive resources. Building Smart City is a challenge for the states, urban local bodies and corporates but it is also a great opportunity as well, he said at the conference on Smart City organised by the…
Sub-standard education in government schools, delayed infrastructural projects, migration from villages and towns, lack of employment skills in the youth — these were a few problems that Union secretaries cited in their reports to the PMO after they visited the districts from where they had started their Indian Administrative Service careers.
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A silent e-revolution is sweeping across UP’s hinterland. Riding high on the e-wave, rural UP in particular has performed exceedingly well in switching over to the government’s online services, despite facing an acute crisis of power and trained manpower.
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As India is going to achieve a 25% share in global mobile phone manufacturing by 2019, the industry expects that the Union Budget will encourage domestic manufacturing with policies like tax holidays and interest subsidies and help the Indian telecom sector reach new benchmarks. The mobile segment in India has immense potential and can be…