New Delhi: Websites of all government organisations will move to the new Internet Protocol (IP), IPv6, by the year-end, the communications and information technology ministry said Wednesday. "A direction has been issued to all the government organisations to migrate their websites to IPv6 by December 2012," the ministry said in a statement. "As IPv6 is not backward compatible with IPv4, the transition to IPv6 is likely to be a complex,...
10:27 AM, Jun 07, 2012
Los Angeles: Facebook's website suffered sporadic outages on Thursday (Friday in some time zones), anywhere from half an hour to two hours according to various blogs, tweets and affected users, but the company said the problem has been fixed. "Earlier today, some users briefly experienced issues loading the site. The issues have since been resolved and everyone should now have access to Facebook," company spokesman Michael Kirkland told Reuters. The...
02:43 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed a plea by Facebook India to drop its name from a civil suit filed against certain websites for hosting "objectionable content". The internet company argued that its India office merely provided technical support to the parent company, based in US, and did not host any content. The court, however, said that prima facie there was enough evidence to implicate Facebook in the...
05:05 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: Computer security analysts have issued an alert for Internet users and operators against hackers attempting to target websites of "reputed" government and private organisations. Cyber security agencies have also asked Internet users to deploy adequate firewalls and security measures to combat these attacks originating through Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). "It is observed that some hacker groups are launching distributed denial of service attacks on websites of government...
10:19 AM, May 27, 2012
Detroit/New York: Facebook may only have itself to blame for why General Motors rained on its IPO parade this week. GM announced the decision to drop Facebook paid ads on Tuesday in what was the first highly visible crack in Facebook's strategy and illustrated doubts about its perceived advantage over traditional media. GM's decision followed Facebook officials' failure to convince top marketing executives at the US automaker of the benefits...
02:06 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: A number of Internet service providers had blocked access to popular video sharing websites such as Vimeo and DailyMotion as well as major torrent search services including The Piratebay and isoHunt apparantly following a court order obtained by Copyright Labs, a Chennai-based online anti piracy service provider. According to Copyright Labs, ISPs were asked to block specific websites but in a repeat of earlier instances they ended up...
07:08 PM, May 17, 2012
Bangalore: Pinterest, the increasingly popular online bulletin board, raised $100 million in a financing round that values the US start-up at $1.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. The funding is led by Japanese e-commerce site Rakuten, with Pinterest's existing venture-capital investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, FirstMark Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners also participating, the report said. Pinterest could not immediately be reached by...
01:09 PM, May 17, 2012
The CBSE Xth and XIIth Board examinations' results, 2012, will be declared any time now and here are some of the websites which students can visit to know how they have fared. The official CBSE website, http://cbseresults.nic.in/, powered by the national informatics centre, will put the results up but increased traffic may lead to its unavailability. In that case, students can visit http://cbseresults2012.co.in/. Another website, http://cbse.examresults.net/, has a service by...
10:35 AM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: Following the controversy over a 63-year-old BR Ambedkar cartoon by K Shankar Pillai the government assured Parliament that no political cartoons would be allowed in school textbooks. Finance Minister Pranab Mukerjee also announced that all the objectionable material would be withdrawn. But the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) book at the centre of the storm - India Constitution at Work, a part of the Class...
06:58 PM, May 14, 2012
London: Britain's largest abortion provider said Thursday that thousands of attempts have been made to hack its website following a high-profile security breach when personal details of 10,000 women were stolen. Last week a judge jailed a computer hacker for breaking into the website of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service and stealing the data. The service said that in the five weeks since the man's arrest, it had recorded around...
01:14 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Kolkata: In wake of controversy surrounding the arrest of a professor for allegedly posting an internet cartoon of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress on Monday ruled out setting up a mechanism to monitor social media. "Let me categorically state that the Trinmool Congress never had nor does it intend to have any cell to monitor social media," Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien said. On reports that the party...
04:10 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Kolkata: Even as the controversy surrounding the arrest of Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra over a cartoon on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is still afresh, the West Bengal Police has also started probing a complaint of defamation against social networking sites, including Facebook. The complainant alleges malicious campaigning against Mamata Banerjee on social networking sites. The case was handed over to the CID on Wednesday. The police is now tracking...
09:00 AM, Apr 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Google India's name was on Friday taken out from the suit for trial of various social networking websites for allegedly hosting offending contents, after it was pointed out to a Delhi court that it is merely a software developing firm. Administrative Civil Judge Praveen Singh dropped the case against Google India agreeing with its plea that it does not operate any social networking website. The court also...
11:50 AM, Apr 13, 2012
"Rajnikanth once tried logging into IRCTC at 8 AM and... failed," tweeted an exasperated user. The sluggishness of the IRCTC website is no ...
06:25 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Beijing: China was struggling Thursday to restore several government websites that international hacking group Anonymous says it attacked in an apparent protest against Chinese Internet restrictions. On a Twitter account established in late March, Anonymous China listed the websites it says it hacked over the last several days. They include government bureaus in several Chinese cities, including in Chengdu, a provincial capital in southwest China. Some of the sites were...
12:33 PM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: The US-based Internet giant Yahoo Inc, accused of hosting allegedly objectionable content on its site, on Wednesday got relief from a Delhi court which removed it from the list of accused parties. Administrative Civil Judge (ACJ) Praveen Singh allowed the application of Yahoo Inc for removing its name from the list of accused websites after Santosh Pandey, counsel for plaintiff Mufti Aijas Arshad Quasmi, gave his no objection...
07:17 PM, Apr 04, 2012
London: Online passwords are so insecure that one per cent can be cracked within 10 guesses, according to the largest ever sample analysis carried out by a Gathes Cambridge scholar at the university. The research carried out by Joseph Bonneau will be presented at a security conference held under the auspices of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in May. Bonneau's research has featured in The Economist, a university...
02:15 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Shanghai: Chinese authorities shut 16 websites and detained six people accused of spreading rumors of unusual military vehicle movements in Beijing, state media reported, after the political downfall of one of the ruling communist party's senior leaders. Authorities closed the websites for spreading rumors of "military vehicles entering Beijing and something wrong going on in Beijing," Xinhua news agency said late on Friday, citing a spokesman with the State Internet...
11:10 AM, Apr 01, 2012
New York: Indian military research bodies and Tibetan activists have been targeted by hackers based in China, with a former graduate student at a Chinese university emerging as a key figure responsible for the cyber breach, according to a report by a computer security firm. In its 24 page report, Tokyo-based Trend Micro said the hacking campaign, dubbed 'Luckycat' targeted Indian military research institutions, entities in Japan as well as...
02:20 PM, Mar 31, 2012
