According to the Kaspersky Lab spam report, in April 2011, India and Brazil are the most popular sources of spam. India accounted for 12.76% of the total volume of spam, followed by Brazil with 7.15%. In April, the amount of spam in email traffic increased by 1.2 % points and averaged 80.8% when compared to… Read More »
The Indian Home Secretary has stated that terrorists are using Internet media to rope in youths of India and conduct ant-social activities. Most of the terrorist attacks were facilitated by communications from the handlers. The Indian government is taking measures to improve data security by reviewing and updating the strategies of national cyber security. It… Read More »
Microsoft India has launched new Internet Explorer 9 version in 11 Indian languages including Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjab, Tamil and Telugu. This is not the first attempt from Microsoft, to get closer to Indian audience. Tools designed by Microsoft like Indic language input tool, phonetic keyboard that has language support,… Read More »
According to the US officials, the US state is having close relationships with India on issues related to cyber security and the state wants to expand the relationship with India. US had many meetings with Indian officials on how to exchange information, cooperate in securing networks, fighting against cyber crime and reaching agreement about these… Read More »
In the month of April 2011, Ministry of Information Technology and Communications issued new rules and regulations on Internet usage in India called as “IT rules 2011”. Many criticisms are being raised by Internet access providers and social networks, as severe threat is being posed by these rules to the freedom of speech. Since the… Read More »
The GOI (Government of India) has taken the authority itself to switch off the Internet during the time of national emergencies. This made the country to become one of the first few countries to assume such a far reaching authority. Even major developed countries like US and other Western nations are still debating on the… Read More »
In India, first time spam emails in Hindi script and Devanagri script are being circulated. In the month of May 2011, Symantec the E-security firm has identified spam e-mails using the ‘419’ or ‘Nigerian’ technique in Hindi. Earlier the same messages were in English. This change in language states that the spammers are specifically targeting… Read More »