The Maharashtra Police Academy (MPA) has decided to adopt 82 training programmes to groom around 2,800 police officers in view of growing cyber crimes and economic offences, its director said. "The training will help to detect many cybercrimes besides aiding to read face and body language for investigation purposes," MPA Director Sanjay Barve told reporters here. MPA n
Quick Heal, a leading anti-virus solution providers, today launched PC2Mobile Scan, claimed to be the world`s first mobile phone virus scan, in Kerala. Company Director and Chief Technology Officer, Sanjay Katkar, said that by using `PC2Mobile Scan Technology one can easily find out if the mobile phone has any virus infection. The mobile can be connected to the PC or laptop usin
WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website, has not yet responded to the demand made by the US last week to return all classified leaked documents on Afghan war, Pentagon and State Department officials have said. "We are still waiting for WikiLeaks to respond to our demands made last week. We have not been contacted by them. We have not got any indication that they intend to comply,"
The Bihar government is building state-of-the-art e-Kisan Bhawan at block level to extend benefits of Information Technology (IT) to the agriculture sector of the state. Construction work of e-Kisan Bhawan is in progress in 324 blocks out of the total 534 blocks in the state, Agriculture minister Renu Kumari told PTI. She added that rest 210 blocks would be cov
China, keen to end India`s dominance in the outsourcing industry, today announced it will not levy operating taxes on offshore service outsourcing business in 21 of its key cities till 2013 to promote growth of the industry. The five per cent operating tax exemption will run from July 1 this year until December 31, 2013, the Chinese government said. The 21 cities covered are Bei
In one of the most sophisticated cyber attacks, hackers have robbed nearly 675,000 pounds from about 3,000 online bank accounts in Britain. The scam was carried out by using a computer virus -- described by experts as the most dangerous malware programme ever created -- that emptied the bank accounts while showing customers fake statements, the Daily Mail reported. Internet secu
Canadian company RIM, the manufacturers of BlackBerry device, has told the United States that there are solutions available on a country-to-country basis to address security concerns regarding its service. Research In Motion (RIM) officials conveyed the message to the US State Department at a meeting on Monday. Following the concerns being raised by countries like India, the UAE
Believe it or not, nearly 34 years after she was told her kids had died in a car crash, a mother has been reunited with her children -- thanks to the Internet, a media report said. According to the `Daily Express`, Vicki Rohring thought her son Scott and daughter Karen had been killed in October 1976 on their way back from staying with their father; but the "crash" was a lie t
Expressing outrage over a US Senator calling Indian IT major Infosys a "chop shop", an industry body representing American firms has said that Indian companies were helping US create value and keep ahead of the global competition. "It is totally outrageous in this day in age, when the world is so interconnected by the Internet, that draconian measures would be floated by
The Indonesian government Wednesday announced that it is blocking access to four million pornography sites on the Internet following continuing calls from the public to protect the nation`s youth from the dangers of smut. The censoring is across the board and encompasses any material deemed pornographic, including nudity, explicit sex whether heterosexual or not, sex organs and pornogra
The Home Ministry has asked the Department of Telecommunication to ensure service providers upgrade infrastructure to intercept calls and SMS of all third generation (3G) mobile services or else stop using the latest technology. In a letter, the MHA has asked DoT to direct state-run BSNL and MTNL, which currently offer the services, to do the needful immediately or else stop the service
Gullible people have been defrauded of over Rs 13 lakh in the past two years by fake emails and SMSes offering them foreign funds, the government said today. "As per the information compiled by the Department of Banking Supervision in RBI, five complaints have been received regarding losing money while responding to fake emails/SMS messages during the last two years. The amo
A National Emergency Telephone Number--2611--has been mooted by a Pune-based Telecom engineer as a versatile communication platform during emergency and disaster management in the country. Dial 2611, a National Emergency Telephone Number system (NETNS,) is designed and developed as a nationwide single telephone number assigned to integrate local, regional and national help lines
Terming a US proposal to increase visa fees as discriminatory, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma today said the increase would cost Indian firms USD 200 million extra a year and make them less competitive. "The Bill will have an (estimated) additional cost implication of over USD 200 million annually and an adverse impact on the competitiveness and commercial inter
Leading IT firms today termed as "discriminatory" the US Border Security Bill which seeks to hike in H1B and L1 visa fees to fund border security and expressed apprehensions over the impact of the hike on competitiveness of Indian firms. "While the full impact of the Bill is yet to be assessed, we think it goes against the notion of free trade and is discriminatory
Extending the pay per use paradigm for its mobile Internet users, Tata Docomo, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices, today launched a tariff plan, which will allow users to pay only for websites they regularly browse. The tariff plan --Pay Per Site-- allows the subscribers to pay only for the websites they surf regularly instead paying hefty monthly rentals for data, Tata Docomo sa
Kerala State IT Mission, in association with Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-Kerala), will conduct a one-day workshop tomorrow on `Crisis Management Plan` to spread awareness on cyber attacks. The workshop will discuss steps that government organisations will have to take to counter these growing cyber threats, an official press release here said. The progra
Saudi Arabia`s telecoms regulator has extended indefinitely a reprieve on a BlackBerry messenger ban as a solution is sought that allows authorities to monitor the service, SPA news agency said today. The regulator "decided to allow the continuation of BlackBerry messenger services" while it "continues to work with service providers to complete the remainder of the
With BlackBerry makers passing on the buck to telecom operators for monitoring its services, the Government has called a meeting of service providers this week to discuss the issue. Official sources said while the onus of giving access to security agencies to monitor the information on these phones lies with the service providers, the Home Ministry will ask them as to which servi
A computer engineer has been arrested for allegedly hacking the Facebook account of a girl and uploading obscene pictures on it, police said today. The accused identified as Vinay Singh (25) was arrested from Guna in Madhya Pradesh under the relevant sections of the IT Act, Cyber crime cell in-charge, Jitendra Singh told reporters. Vinay, who is known to the victim
