iSec 2007, a two-day seminar-cum-exhibition on information security, will be held here from August 10.
It is being organised by the Southern India Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI) in response to a panel discussion held on this topic in September last. …
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An ordinary person who wants to invest in the stock market or a mutual fund, or simply open a saving bank account, is bombarded by ever increasing compliance regulations under the pretext of automation, efficiency, better governance or prevention of money laundering.
Anil Bakle, a tax consultant says, “I currently have a Unique Identification Number (which [...]
Consider this. Having discovered a virus in its mail system, a mid-sized Indian pharmaceutical research company downloaded a free antivirus software from the Internet. It cleaned the viruses and apparently everything was fine. Until it discovered that sensitive information was being passed off to its competitors.
“We discovered that the antivirus had, in fact, silently planted [...]
It was the year when cybercriminals targeted everything from MySpace to Wikipedia, and even a Web site maintained by a Kentucky Boy Scout troop wasn’t safe for casual browsing.
Computer security experts said 2006 was also the year that hacking stopped being a hobby and became a lucrative profession practiced by an underground of computer developers [...]
That e-card in your inbox, wishing you a Happy New Year, is most likely a computer virus.
IT security firm Sophos, says the Dref-V mass-mailing worm, which poses as a New Year e-card, was discovered on December 30, 2006, and by the following day accounted for 93.7% of infected emails. …
Read More @ Consumer Affairs
A Finnish computer security firm Sunday warned of an ‘e-mail worm‘ called Luder-A or Tibs.jy that is spread with a New Year greeting.
The worm has been sent as an attachment named “postcard.exe” (or similar) in e-mail messages with the subject line “Happy New Year!” (or similar), the company F-Secure said.  …
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Social networking sites like YouTube, Orkut and MySpace, that were a mad rage among young netizens last year, may be hot targets for virus attacks this year.
Research by F-Secure tells us about dangerous vulnerabilities in Cross Site Scripting (XSS) that is used on some of these sites.
Niraj Kaushik, country manager, Trend Micro (India & [...]
India remained a Internet hackers’ paradise during the first half of the current calender year with 1,752 websites being defaced, according to an analysis by the Department of Information Technology.
In the first half till June this year, 39 ‘.gov.in’ websites were defaced, which is 15% of the total number of hacked sites in the [...]
Ever noticed transactions of Rs 99 paise or Re 1 in your credit card statement? If yes, then your credit card is being hacked.
‘Bleeding’ or ‘slicing’ of bank or credit cards is becoming increasingly prevalent in India, but customers often fail to notice the small transaction and even if they do, it rarely gets [...]
A notebook that comes equipped with face identification technology.
When Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) in the movie Castaway returns home after spending four years on a lonely island, his girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt) recognises him in spite of his long-hair and beard and other physical changes that madehim an alien to his own men.Â
But [...]