The Supreme Court of India has directed the Government of India to enable e-voting facility for the Indians living abroad. This historical decision will let the NRIs to vote online making things better for the Electorate. Earlier, NRIs used to fly back home to cast their vote during elections but now they can vote for…
The state government has decided to grant more manpower and facilities to the cybercrime cell, which deals with online crimes such as stalking, identity theft, and hacking. Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, in a Tuesday meeting with senior state government and police officials, decided to create 100 new posts in the Mumbai police to deal with cyber crime. A…
Cyber criminals, who send phishing mails in the name of income tax department, are back in business with a new modus operandi. With the ‘refund notification’ trick becoming passé, they have now come up with a ‘tax payment successful’ message which prods the recipients to click on the attachment for downloading the payment challan. Read…
The Union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has referred a plea that called for a ban porn websites to the Cyber Law Division under the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY).
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The government on Wednesday held out the promise that Section 66A of the Information Technology Act would not be used to stifle political dissent, humour that wasn’t vulgar and contrarian views, before a Supreme Court bench that’s re-hearing a batch of petitions challenging the legality of the law which confers wide powers of arrest on…
An affidavit filed by the Cyber Law Division of the Union Communications and Information Technology Ministry before the Supreme Court on January 8 said the search engines did “have the relevant technology and deep-domain knowledge and expertise to block and/or filter words, phrases, expressions and sponsored links which are in violation of the PC-PNDT Act…
If you don’t see traffic police on the road, don’t try to break the signal as violators shall be caught on camera as part of the E-Challan procedure which will be soon made mandatory by the Maharashtra Government.
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Vaultize takes an information-centric (or document-centric) approach to information security by ensuring that corporate information and data always stays in control of IT. It allows end-users to create, access, edit, annotate and share documents irrespective of where they are (within as well as beyond the corporate fence) and independent of the device they use (laptop,…
In an effort to provide social security to the country’s unorganised workers, the government will soon issue smart cards that will help them avail of multiple benefits related to health, insurance, pension and banking.
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The Pentagon’s Centcom had a surprise yesterday when its Twitter account was hacked by alleged Islamic State Cyber Operatives. According to a Reuters report, the Twitter and YouTube accounts for the US military command that oversees operations in the Middle East were hacked on Monday by people claiming to be sympathetic toward the Islamic State militant…