IT-BPO firms on alert

The swine flu outbreak has forced the IT-BPO companies here to issue travel advisories to their employees

Phishing is the next wave of outsourcing

This disturbing trends has seen phishing attacks being outsourced as a service by cranks and hackers.

Lok Sabha OK's IT Act Amendment, 2006 Bill

Publishing and transmitting obscene material in electronic form besides other e-commerce frauds is made a punishable offence under the amended IT Bill

Cyber attacks rising 15 percent annually

About 57 per cent of the organisations experienced compromised systems in 2007, a two-fold increase from the year 2000.

IT industry must focus on data security: Experts

IT and ITeS industries must consider the security centre as a revenue enhancer and not an added cost.

Beware of who joins your social network

Although the ability to share information and multimedia files are among social networking sites’ greatest strengths, hackers see these assets as new vectors to attack unsuspecting users.

Wipro makes a pitch for security co-sourcing

It avoids the dangers of outsourcing and increases the clients’ control over sensitive data, says Wipro Infotech.

Indian firms wake up to disaster recovery norms

Sadly though, many firms still do not accord the due importance to DR and put their operations at peril.

The five top areas of cyber security concern

Data would remain the prime target for cyber crimes in 2009 as well, says the report.

US moots privacy survey to counter terrorism

Poor-quality data are a major concern in protecting privacy because inaccuracies may cause data-mining algorithms to identify innocent people as threats.

Satyam denies World Bank ban on offshoring

The news article cites misinformation from unattributed sources and leaked e-mails that are taken out of context.

Breach of trust, the Chinese model

a Chinese messaging and voice-over-IP client that uses the Skype protocol logs chat conversations based on certain keywords.