With a conviction rate of 0.5 per cent, the cyber crime cells in India paint a poor picture.
The Election Commission has called for a meeting with websites on November 18 to discuss the use of social media by political parties and candidates in the ongoing five-state elections.
The latest developments from the violence-hit valley.
The suspect behind a pro-Islamic State Twitter account followed by foreign jihadis has been arrested in Bengaluru, senior police officials said.
Gullible bank customers are getting fooled by callers who scare or lure them.
Engineering student Arun Suresh Kumar reported two significant security-related bugs to Facebook.
Australian police on Saturday it had foiled a terror strike planned for Mother's Day on Sunday and arrested a 17-year-old for plotting multiple bomb attacks in the heart of Melbourne.
Cyber espionage operations dated back to at least 2005
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch his dream 'Swachh Bharat' campaign on Thursday.
The use of Aadhaar on Skype Lite and LinkedIn will allow Microsoft to bring on board millions in small towns and rural areas lacking e-mail IDs.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday that at least 72 people have died due to Cyclone Amphan and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the affected districts and provide help to 'rebuild those areas from scratch'
During the meeting, it was impressed upon Twitter representatives that they should improve their system of response to investigation-related legal requests.
The attorney general told the apex court that the invasion of privacy was very minimal in Aadhaar and it may not even be considered as an invasion.
More than 250,000 gram panchayats are yet to be connected through broadband.
The parliamentary committee on IT has recently been in the news for asking global representatives of Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram to present their views on misuse of social media platforms and its impact on citizens.
'Although I am from a different party, I would support this government if they draft an unambiguous section to replace 66A. That is the need of the hour, not from the government's point of view, but from the netizens's point of view,' says former IT minister Milind Deora, in this column exclusive to Rediff.com
It is important to approach the belief of people in ancient India's achievements with a sense of proportion, balance and empathy, argues B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
Ambassador Natarajan Krishnan and Ambassador Shankar Bajpai helped shape Indian foreign policy at a glorious, but difficult, time in history, recalls Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
Digital campaigns compared to billboards or even print ads not only have the power to reach wider audiences but also reduce the campaign costs. The focus on social media by political parties at election time, therefore, is hardly misplaced.
The decision to rethink the ban on porn Web sites is the latest reversal of decisions by the Modi Sarkar. Has the Modi Sarkar become a regime of U-turns, asks Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
The chief of America's Federal Communications Commission is not a fan of net neutrality. So what's his vision of communications and digital policy in these times?
The call centre works round the clock attending to calls ranging from domestic violence to suicide attempts to seeking medical help.
Comey said from the investigations so far it is not entirely clear at this point just what terrorist group he aspired to support.
'Some of his decisions were not so good, but his intentions were always guided by a deep national interest.'
Desolate streets with security personnel and a communications lockdown has left the Valley cut off from the world.
Farmers said a big reason for the anger was the sudden stopping of wheat procurement by the state government in some places, which had caused the prices to dip below the minimum support price.
Army was on Friday called in for deployment in eight districts of Haryana after one person was killed and 21 were injured in police action as Jat stir for quota turned violent and the rampaging mobs set ablaze the house of state's Finance Minister besides several government and private properties.
The removal of over 54,000 accounts was the largest such removal yet.
Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in New Delhi onto participate in the fourth round of Indo-US strategic dialogue even as US announced to invest $100 million in India's burgeoning clean energy sector.
From June 1 to October 4, the call centre scam mastermind collected Rs 12 crore from just one call centre.
Fake or exaggerated news against the forces and the administration are feeding public anger, often leading to violence.
With Sundar Pichai becoming the CEO of Google, India has one more reason to cheer its prowess in the global IT sector.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar discusses five issues pivotal for the success of Digital India
There is discrimination against women in insurance cover. As a flood of insurance companies tap the capital markets with public issues, there is however, hardly any reference to this asymmetry. Subhomoy Bhattacharjee reports
Journalists all over the world have been disappearing and some have never been heard again, says Narain D Batra.
ICICI Bank says it blocked all UPI transactions made through PhonePe due to security concerns.
Mehbooba Mufti said that incidents like the ones at Handwara and Nathnusa are "unacceptable" and come as a major setback to the efforts of the state government in consolidating peace dividends in the state.
In a bid to allay global outrage after the leak of the United States snooping programme, President Barack Obama has put an end to the surveillance of "foreign leaders of friendly nations" but ruled out scrapping the controversial programme altogether.
Saipov was charged with providing material support to the Islamic State group and violence and destruction of motor vehicles.
India is world's third-largest smartphone market with over 100 million smartphones sold last year.
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