Apple CEO Tim Cook has used President Obama’s cybersecurity and consumer privacy summit and stressed on a strong need for privacy. Apple will expand encryption in services and products, the CEO said.
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The principal of a top Gurgaon school summoned us minutes before our Internet Safety Students’ Workshop to ask, “What are you going to tell my middle school children, so that they don’t get ideas that were not there before?”
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Even if you have enabled strict privacy controls on WhatsApp, you can still be tracked. A Dutch university student has developed a simple web-based tool that can be used to track WhatsApp users. WhatsSpy Public, the open-source tool, can retrieve anything like the user’s profile photos and status messages. It can also retrieve the user’s…
The Skolkovo Foundation, a Russian innovative industry body, and the Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) of India, have announced a series of measures to boost investments of Indian IT companies in that country.
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Executives in the technology industry are not discouraged by the recent forecast by lobby group Nasscom, which predicted the industry will grow by 12-14% in 2015-16. At Nasscom’s India Leadership Forum, hopes are high on the government’s Digital India mission. They also say more needs to be done to provide the right skills to students…
China’s internet curbs are isolating it from the world and having a ‘highly detrimental’ impact on business, a European lobby said on Thursday, in an unusually strong statement by a foreign business chamber.
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SysTools is an Indian IT company that initiated its services to simplify technology in the year 2007. Lead by the ideas of Anuraag Singh and Debashish Pramanik, the products developed under the brand has marked an evolution in data recovery and digital forensics arena.
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The city recorded a 37 per cent rise in the cyber crime rates in 2014. The number shot up from 479 in 2013 to 655 last year. Offences such as sending objectionable messages and emails were the most commonly record crimes. 105 cases of SMS stalking and e-mails were recorded followed by that of uploading…
President Barack Obama is set to sign an executive order on Friday aimed at encouraging companies to share more information about cybersecurity threats with the government and each other, a response to attacks like that on Sony Entertainment.
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Having issued Aadhaar cards to a majority of the Indian population, the Indian government now wants to make the best use of them. Back in November 2014, the government had proposed a ‘Digital locker’ concept. The locker, it was proposed, would be linked to the Aadhaar card of citizens and would then enable them to…