Even cyber criminals offer discounts, lifetime warranty: Kaspersky

Researchers found that the price paid for a single hacked account is lower, with most selling for about $1 per account

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Infosys US Retail sales executive Naresh Ramamurti quits

Ramamurti is an Infosys veteran of nearly 15 years in two stints.

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India pushed draft data protection with dynamism: UK Information Commissioner

Data, according to The UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham, is an asset of the fourth industrial revolution and privacy had emerged at a key aspect globally.

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BharatNet crosses halfway mark, links 1.2 lakh panchayats

The ambitious project, which was originally conceived by the UPA-II government in 2011 as the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) and renamed as Bharat-Net, is being monitored by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) but has missed several deadlines since its launch.

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3 industry bodies moot rollout of 1 mn Wi-Fi hotspots by Sept 2019: Manoj Sinha

These services are proposed to be provided through a common platform to be owned and operated by them.

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15,779 Indian websites hacked during Jan-Nov 2018: Ravi Shankar Prasad

IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the government has taken following measures to enhance the cyber security and prevent cyber attacks in the country.

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2,388 social media URLs blocked or removed in 2018: S S Ahluwalia

In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Electronics and IT S S Ahluwalia said Section 69A of the IT Act, 2000, provides for blocking any information generated, transmitted, received, stored or hosted in any computer resource in the interest of the country.

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