With malware makers aiming to create as many as 6,000 new pieces of malware per day, the growth of malicious software continues to accelerate.
The economy is yet to recover and it's evident at management institutes where the pre-placement scenario is still sluggish. It's nearing the end of July and time for Indian B-schools to start getting pre-placement offers or pre-placement interviews from companies.
Job portals like Monster.com and Naukri.com affirmed the observation.
RSA, the security division of EMC, points out that the evidence of this trend lies in the fact that several Indian banks came under attack in 2008, and there have been over 400 phishing scams in the last few months. However, more alarming is the fact that these attacks are likely to increase in future.
Wipro BPO, the business process outsourcing arm of soaps-to-IT services player Wipro Ltd, plans to expand its operations in China and the Philippines by opening two more centres in these countries by the end of this year.
As part of the initiative, the group will launch around 100 courses, both professional and vocational, to cater to people in small cities. The company hopes that the initiative, which is at the the planning stage currently, would begin by the year-end.
The Business Process Outsourcing companies in India appear to be handling the impact of the global economic crisis much better than IT firms
Ads are used by all websites to monetise and can be seen on every webpage, which makes them a very soft target for malware authors. Compounding the problem is the fact that a single malicious advertisement may only appear once every 1,000 page views or only to viewers from a certain geographic region, thus making it more challenging to detect and eradicate.
These infected drives are used to steal data and leak confidential information. Most of the data theft happens in the banking, financial services and insurance space but medical research and manufacturing are the new additions because these have expensive and valuable intellectual property, templates and patents. Customer information like credit card information and intellectual property are another area of theft.
Among the ways of sweetening deals are cost-saving assurances, doing portfolio assessment or feasibility studies for free, opting for fixed-price contracts, picking up smaller engagements with existing clients and offering more services for the same money.
The kind of spam mails visible around election times are those encouraging voters to view websites of various electoral candidates, sending party manifestos, requesting for votes and party propaganda mails.
From 'just-for-fun' kind of viruses, the attackers moved to crimeware or Trojans. Now, even as the number of virus attacks has increased, the duration of the assaults has decreased, making it all the more difficult to detect, leave alone kill them. In all years cumulative from 2002 through 2007, internet security firm Symantec created a total of 800,000 unique malware signatures. However, in 2008 alone, this went up to 1,800,000.
The economic slowdown has forced many students to take up entrepreneurship because of lack of jobs in the market.
Blogs may be good to read but the blog you just visited and commented on, could be a storehouse of spam having links pointing to pages that use social engineering tricks and infect your computer.
The DIT will have the software ready by end of September which will help decode 22 languages recognised by the Constitution.
"Gmail users can both search and apply on Naukri but if you are not registered on Naukri with a Gmail id, you can still search for jobs and view job descriptions, but can't apply," said Vibhore Sharma, senior vice-president, Product and Technology, Info Edge (India). The user may note the jobs he wishes to apply to and can then log on to his Naukri account whenever he wants to apply.
Indian IT-BPO firms have stepped up investments by around 30-70 per cent on training and education of employees despite the economic slowdown.
Representatives of Symantec, an internet security firm, said that the adult spam for February stood at 7 per cent
Faced with budget constraints and margin pressures, Indian IT services providers such as Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro and HCL are moving more work offshore (to India) rather than onsite (at the client's site) in a bid to contain costs.
Job portals are perhaps feeling jobless as the economic slowdown is making recruiters defer and limit their hiring plans.
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