New Delhi : Union Commerce & Industry Minister has said that the final draft of the National IPR Policy has been circulated for inter-ministerial consultation and will be put up to the Union Cabinet for approval after getting the comments.

New Delhi : Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar in a written reply to Shri Prof. M. V Rajeev Gowda in Rajya Sabha today stated that Government has taken a number of steps to protect confidential information pertaining to Defence Sector from Cyber-attack including setting up of Cyber Operation Centres for threat management and mitigation as part of Framework for Enhancing Cyber Security of Indian Cyberspace. To protect important and confidential data from Cyber-attack, the operational networks of the Armed Forces are air gapped from internet.

New Delhi : Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down the Section 66 A of the Information Technology Act calling it unconstitutional and untenable. The section gave powers to police to arrest a person for posting allegedly "offensive" content on websites and made it a crime punishable by jail up to three years.

The first PIL on the issue was filed in 2012 by a law student Shreya Singhal, who sought amendment in Section 66A of the Act.

Mumbai : DBS Bank India today launched ‘Action against Cyber Theft - (ACT)’, a consumer led education initiative. With this series, the bank aims to promote steps that the consumer can take to avoid being a victim of cyber thefts and practice responsible banking.

New Delhi : As per the information reported to and tracked by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) a total number of 21699, 27605, 28481 & 32323 websites were hacked by various hacker groups spread across the world during the year 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. These also include a total number of 308, 371, 189 and 155 Government websites hosted under ‘gov.in’ & ‘nic.in’ domains during the year 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

The comprehensive measures taken by Government to tackle the problem include: