New Delhi: The Cabinet has approved the proposal to provide preference to domestically manufactured electronic products, in procurement of those electronic products which have security implications for the country and in Government procurement for its own use, consistent with our World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments.
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Hyderabad : Worried about the Indian government’s threat to block your favorite websites? Tired of your college, office & government blocking everything cool & fun on the Internet? Deprived of accessing Stock Websites, Facebook and You Tube Videos at work? Slow download speeds, download limits, no access to cricket scores & no chatting with friends, making Jack a dull boy? Cheer up as ANKIT FADIA’s latest book “How to Unblock Everything on the Internet” will show how to unblock just about everything on the Internet.

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.