‘Make in India’ a national programe announced by the government last year is intended to be a game changer for the Indian economy. To make it a success, the government needs to undertake extensive reforms that facilitate the ease of setting-up of a manufacturing facilities in India. Steps, such as single window approvals for registrations…
Until recently, most western countries thought of India as a land ruled by age old traditions, and foreigners visited the country to understand this. However, the 1990s saw India awakening to the world of economic liberalisation and undertook structural reforms that attracted foreign investments, unlocked entrepreneurial aptitude and led to the emergence of a neo…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious plan to build I-ways to digitally empower people is floundering, with the government meeting just about 12% of its 2014-15 target to connect 50,000 villages through a national optic fibre network by the end of January.
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People can be forgiven for believing this week’s revelation of the world’s biggest heist — $1 billion — to be an April Fool’s Day prank, had that date not been too far away to be blamed for the audacious crime.
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Amrita Chowdhury is a technology wizard who holds seven US patents in semi-conductor manufacturing. She is the author of Breach, an intriguing, multi-layered narrative that explores the realms of cyber crime and intellectual property rights. Here she discusses with Zehra Naqvi the need to be cagey in the virtual world and how women are coming…
Some 16 million mobile devices have been infected by malicious software globally as of the end of 2014, according to the latest security report by Motive Security Labs, Alcatel-Lucent’s security arm. Such malware is used by “cybercriminals for corporate and personal espionage, information theft, denial of service attacks on business and governments, and banking and…
The first month of 2015 concluded with an extremely high rate of cyber crime – which increased by more than 200 per cent as compared to January 2014. According to experts, were banks more inclined to take action against cyber crimes, the number would only have been higher.
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In potentially the largest bank heist on record, an Eastern European hacker ring is stealing an estimated $1 billion from banks by infecting computers with malware and siphoning money. But how the hackers infiltrated these banks speaks to a much bigger problem: The current security standards (or lack thereof) at major financial institutions are so bad, it only takes opening…
Hackers are continuing to target mobile devices which has led to an increase in infections and also threatens personal information. According to a report by security firm Alcatel-Lucent, malware infections affecting mobile devices increased by 25 percent in 2014, compared to a 20 percent increase in 2013.
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Nearly all the fancy hardware in your connected home is inherently flawed when it comes to security. That’s one of the painful takeaways from a new report by Synack, a subscription Security-as-as-Service (SaaS) startup in Menlo Park, California. The company’s analysis will be a rude awakening for anyone who thinks they have a bullet-proof home-security…