150 layers of info: GIS to help map Bengaluru’s wards

There is hope for planned development of Bengaluru yet. Taking forward a development model being set up in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat and in Arvind Kejriwal’s Delhi, India’s IT city will have a centralised databank comprising all details including population density, infrastructure and existing facilities.This will enable proper allocation and prioritisation…

Lenovo to stop pre-installing controversial software

China’s Lenovo Group Ltd, the world’s largest PC maker, said it will no longer pre-install software that cybersecurity experts said was malicious and made devices vulnerable to hacking. Lenovo had come under fire from security researchers who said earlier the company pre-installed a virus-like software from a company called Superfish on consumer laptops that hijacked…

Virus posing as ‘The Interview’ movie link hits cyberspace

After triggering a cyber world conflict between the US and North Korea, a potent virus masquerading under the pseudonym of Hollywood movie ‘The Interview’ has been seen prowling in the Indian cyberspace to attack and damage Android-based smart phones. Cyber security sleuths have detected the activity of this ‘Trojan’ category virus in the domestic Internet circuit which falsely leads…