New Delhi : Beginning tomorrow (1st September 2012) India will be among the select few countries in the world to have stringent EMF( Electromagnetic Frequency) Radiation Standards, established in the interest of public health, for mobile towers and mobile handsets. Indian standards would now be 10 times more stringent than more than 90% countries in the world.

The following are the highlights of the Standards :

New Delhi : The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has approved and notified two important frameworks to ensure effective citizen engagement and communication with all stakeholders using various offline as well as online channels including Social Media.

New Delhi: The mobile subscribers in the country are facing threat of SIM card cloning. Milind Deora, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology stated in Lok Sabha today.

He also gave Licence Service Area wise details of number of cases reported so far regarding SIM cloning - Gujarat 1, Delhi 18547, Karnataka 16, Mumbai 11, Punjab 1738.

New Delhi: Defence Minister A.K. Antony informed Rajya Sabha today in a written reply that only one instance of attempted hacking on computers belonging to Defence sector has come to notice in the past three years. There were intelligence reports in November 2011 about the probable compromise of computers of Eastern Naval Command based in Visakhapatnam. However, none of these computers were found to be compromised. The Defence Services have a robust defensive mechanism in place.

New Delhi: IT professionals face many daunting challenges, from thwarting cyber crime to ensuring mobile device security. ISACA's two-day Asia-Pacific Computer Audit, Control and Security (CACS)/Information Security and Risk Management (ISRM) conference in New Delhi, India, on 14-15 September 2012, will bring together global experts to help enterprises face the latest threats that keep them up at night.