Category Archives: Privacy

Adverse effect of Computer Games on the society

The barbaric incidents of sexual violence seen in Delhi recently has raised a question on the effect of Bollywood, TV and Computer Games on the psyche of people and whether they are contributing to the growing violence and sexual assaults … Continue reading

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Hackers hold Australian Health records hostage

A group of Russian hackers are reportedly holding medical records of an Australian Clinic hostage and demanding a ransom of Australian $400 million. The cyber criminals hacked into the server of the clinic and encrypted the records and demanding ransom … Continue reading

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When you pick up a glass of water…

Next time when you pick up a glass of water in some body’s place, be careful, your finger print could be picked out of the glass and used to impersonate you. Social engineering attacks in future may therefore start with … Continue reading

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e-authentication framework for Government projects

The Department of Electronics and Information Technology, GOI (DeitY) has released a document called “e-Pramaan: Framework for e-Authentication”. This is intended to serve as the guiding document for all Central and State Ministries, departments and government agencies for implementing an … Continue reading

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Facebook to introduce “Paid Message Delivery”

Facebook has started an test for delivering messages to Facebook users from people other than public against payment of money. Refer here I see an advantage in the service to deliver legal notices to the Facebook users who might have … Continue reading

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Instagram service rules changed

Instagram is a service which is supposed to make sharing of mobile pictures on Social networking sites easy. However the privacy rules attached to the service had raised a ruckus recently as it was felt that the private photographs shared … Continue reading

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