We hear a lot about cyber security these days, most of it bad. Cyber crime and associated cyber security breaches lead most of our technology coverage. Victims of these incidents may not even feel the ravages of the crime until it is far too late. They may already be economically dead, or at a minimum…
Republican and Democratic U.S. senators introduced legislation on Wednesday to give the Department of Homeland Security more authority to protect government Internet addresses, hoping to prevent more cyber attacks like recent massive breaches at the government’s hiring office. Katherine Archuleta, the chief of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), resigned earlier this month after the…
Fortifying Kent D Thomas explains why there is an urgent and dire need for more cyber security professionals in the age of digitisation. The age of digitisation and mobilisation is fast accelerating, and so is the fear of vulnerability to having personal and sensitive information being hacked. The changing trends in mobile usage, social media…
Cars will have to be much better protected against hacking and new privacy standards will govern data collected from vehicles under proposed legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. The Security and Privacy in Your Car Act of 2015 seeks to get a step ahead of what is seen by some as one of…
The most recent website to be attacked by hackers has been cheating website Ashley Madison. Hackers who go by the name, ‘The Impact Team’ claim that to have personal details of more than 37 million cheating spouses and have threatened to release nude photos and sexual fantasies of the site’s clients unless it is shut down. The…
From the very beginning, critical infrastructure networks were designed solely for control purposes and to provide operators with information. Cyber security was not even a distant consideration, as cyber attacks were practically unheard of. The beginning of the 21stcentury brought about a newfound awareness of the potential damage that cyber attacks can cause. Still, cyber…
Even as the Digital India campaign brings about a massive transformation, one cannot ignore the new vulnerabilities and security challenges that it may create Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India campaign is arguably one of the most prodigious programs undertaken by the Indian Government in a long time. With a vision to use technology to…
The Narendra Modi-led government is looking to empanel five consultancies to help it implement the prime minister’s ambitious ‘Digital India’ programme that was launched earlier this month, a tender issued by the National e-Governance Division shows. The consultancies will work on technology and programme management for the initiative at the national level. “To meet the…
Bangalore is the second-largest IT cluster in the world after Silicon Valley, says Srivatsa Krishna, secretary – IT, Biotech, e-governance Karnataka government, implying that the comparison with Hyderabad is unwarranted. In a bid to justify his point further, he says: “Hyderabad took eight years to fructify MoU with Google.” Moreover, he adds that Bangalore now…
Setting aside the penal defamation laws would lead to “anarchy” and no “orderly society” can have a situation where anybody can say anything against anybody, the Centre on Thursday told the Supreme Court, pitching for its retention in the statute book. “Does the freedom of speech and expression necessarily mean that one can say anything…