In what seemed to be the latest technological feat, scientists have developed a laptop which can shout 'stop, thief!' when stolen.
What about when you go to different countries, and have to change from US Dollars to Pound Sterling to the Euro? Fazed by all the rates of exchange? Not quite sure how much you're losing with each transaction? Don't lose heart. In these times of instant cash and virtual travel, the multi currency card might just be the ticket.
Scraping, which implies lifting content from the original site and placing it on some other site without authorisation of the original developer, has consistently proved a sore point for Indian gaming companies since it robs them of potential revenue. Now, however, with clever use of technology, online flash game advertising firms like MochiAds, Inviziads and Gamejacket are putting game developers back in control of their content.
'It was only relatively recently that Subhash Kapoor was able to secure the sources in India, Afghanistan and Cambodia, that allowed him to get the really highest level objects, and that helped propel him in recent years up the ranks.'
The programme permits visa free travel for 20 mn visitors per year.
'Our corporate nabobs often milk their companies by appointing procurement and distribution agents, by under- and over-invoicing imports/exports, evading taxes, indulging in insider trading, and dressing up balance-sheets. Satyam fits this pattern, which is widely prevalent in most brick-and-mortar companies.'
The Association of Payment Clearing Services said that the 25 per cent initial rise in fraudulent use of British credit and debit cards in three years was mainly due to stolen and counterfeit cards used abroad. Card fraud overseas rose by 77 per cent last year to 208 million, 39 per cent of the total. There have been several instances of British consumers reporting money withdrawn from their accounts in India, The Philippines, Australia and Canada.
In early 2017, Amit A Shah warned Nara Chandrababu Naidu that Narendra D Modi was not like Atal Bihari Vajpayee to yield to pressure tactics. Soon, Naidu was to discover this for himself.
The devastation caused by the current deluge has damaged hundreds and thousands of homes and vehicles.
The ESET Smart Security 6, which consists of anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, firewall, parental control, anti-phishing and a social-media scanner, also includes an anti-theft module.
A federal grand jury in Omaha, Nebraska, has indicted three Indians on charges of hacking into online brokerage accounts of others using stolen usernames and passwords for making big time profit.
Tokenisation acts as an additional layer of security as it masks sensitive card data such as the 16-digit account number, expiry date and security code. However, the security level of the app and the customer's mobile itself also needs to be taken into consideration, say experts. Nikhat Hetavkar explains the whole idea of tokenisation, how it is enabled, its impact on card transactions and related security guidelines.
'The corporate tax cuts will obviously result in lower tax payments by companies,' says Central Board of Direct Taxes member Akhilesh Ranjan who retires after 37 years in government service.
More arrests are likely in this case, being probed by the elite crime branch, in the next couple of days.
Here's how you are most likely to get ripped off in cyberspace--and how to protect yourself.
Around 81 per cent of the workers constitute the unorganised sector - devoid of any social security cover and outside the purview of a complex set of labour laws.
The initiative comes in the wake of allegations in the US and the UK that the country's call centre workers have stolen and sold data processed by local outsourcing/BPO firms.
Cyber thieves have been using RBI logos to send out mails to cheat customers
The prejudices the Chinese carry with them mean they are not natural global managers.
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Can call centre thefts end India's flourishing BPO business? Do such deeds give India a bad name? Tell us what you think.
Businessworld stole a lead over Business Today in All India Readership as per National Readership Survey 2006.
In a blogpost, Adobe said its security team discovered sophisticated attacks on its network, involving the illegal access to customer information as well as source code for numerous Adobe products.
Outside Rampur, Azam Khan's name may be an alias for controversy. But Rampur's voters believe that all the improvements in their constituency has been accomplished only by the man they have elected 8 times to the state assembly.
Broker Hiten Dalal and Canara Bank Mutual Fund's former General Manager B R Acharya have been sentence to one year imprisonment.
India plans to phase in cash transfers of food and kerosene subsidies from September, saving 10-15 per cent of the $21 billion in annual outlays on the benefits by eliminating fraud, a senior finance ministry official said on Thursday.
The EC's actions remain to be seen on 'money-hoarding and transportation' for poll-time use. The question remains if the polity in the state would push the EC so far as to use the countermanding option. Even then EC would have to push its constitutional powers to find a way to prevent 'money-power' in the state's elections, says N Sathiya Moorthy
oaring crime gave Venezuela the horrific title of being one of the most violent countries on earth. Inflation ran into tens of thousands per cent, impoverishing nearly all of the country's 31 million people.' Yet, says Radha Roy Biswas, she sees hope for the beleaguered nation where she spent her childhood years.
Report holds Hitachi responsible for debit card data theft. When the data theft came to light, Hitachi had denied that its systems were compromised.
'Gully Boy is a pulsating salute to the new angry India and its youth,' says Aseem Chhabra who watched Zoya Akhtar's movie at the Berlin film festival.
Cyber crime wing has been receiving 4-5 complaints every day involving impersonation
'Rafale is an open and shut case and there is only one man who has done corruption'
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The scheme would cover incidents like robbery and dacoity.
The scam has offered Lalu Prasad an opportunity to point fingers at Nitish Kumar and Sushil Kumar Modi.
We are optimistic about the Indian offshoring story gathering pace, but we feel the biggest beneficiaries will be companies that have proven execution capabilities.
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