New Delhi: More than 120 representatives from over 50 countries will convene at the Lalit Hotel in New Delhi, India February 5-8, 2012 for The IIA's annual Global Council. Coordinated by IIA Global Headquarters and hosted by the IIA's Indian institute (IIA-India), Global Council brings together top leaders of The IIA from around the world to discuss key matters impacting the global profession of internal auditing.

Mumbai : Bangalore based MetricStream, the market leader in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions, and US head-quartered Qualys, Inc., the leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) IT security, risk and compliance management solutions, has announced the integration of MetricStream IT-GRC Solution with QualysGuard® Vulnerability Management (VM).

Mumbai: Virus Bulletin tested platform was Windows 7 Professional 32-bit, the number of tested products: 54, passes: 33, fails: 21. According to VB report, some well-known paid and free AV brands failed missing viruses In-the-Wild (ITW) and FP (false positive detection).

Pune: BioEnable Technologies Pvt Ltd has announced that Fingerprint Technology being offered by them has won 1st place in FVC (Fingerprint Verification Competition) and extremely pleased that such a prestigious award based on products performance in the face of very strong Global competition has been received. This confirmation of the strength and reliability of the Algorithm has been recognized by such an august Independent body thereby confirming that they have the most accurate and reliable Algorithms in use in Biometrics anywhere in the World.

New Delhi: Planning commission has constituted a Small Group of Experts under the Chairmanship of Justice A.P.Shah, Former Chief Justice, Delhi High Court to identify the privacy issues and prepare a paper to facilitate authoring the Privacy Bill.

Pune : Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) - a Deemed University, recently conducted a workshop on "Challenges in Cloud Computing" at the DAIT campus in Girinagar, Pune. The event was attended by DRDO scientists, leading defence and security experts, students and prominent OEMs.

Mumbai: IT security and control firm, Sophos, has cautioned computer users to be careful while typing the URLs, following the results of a Sophos study into the scale of ‘Typosquatting’.

New Delhi: Dr. Ronald K.Noble, Secretary General, Interpol visited CBI(HQ) on 15th & 16th December, 2011, and held discussions with CBI officers on various issues.

New Delhi: Shri Milind Deora, the Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology informed Rajya Sabha today in a written reply that the Telecom Regulator Authority of India (TRAI) has recently imposed regulations to curb unsolicited calls and messages to mobile phone users by telemarketers and telecom companies. Since coming into force of “The Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2010” from 27th September 2011, the number of unwanted commercial calls/SMS has come down substantially.

New Delhi: Shri Milind Deora, the Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology informed Rajya Sabha today in a written reply that instances have come to the notice regarding use of satellite phones by foreign tourists in India. It has been found by police/security agencies that on few occasions foreign tourists, while visiting India are carrying satellite telephones such as Thuriya, Iridium etc without having any permission for the same.