Cyber issues have come to dominate global and local headlines this week in a quite unprecedented way. First there was the worldwide outcry following news that the American government is spying rather indiscriminately on individuals around the world. From India alone, the US government collected 6.3 billion pieces of communication, the reports said.

Now, there’s the much smaller matter of Rs 13 lakh going missing from 29 Axis Bank accounts. Several Mumbai policemen are among the victims.

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These are some of the ads which regularly fill our cell phones and e-m

Hackers on Monday attempted to break into different websites of Andhra Pradesh Government departments even as a security audit was being conducted at the State Data Centre maintained by Wipro here.

A sensitive conference call between FBI and British police's cybercrime investigators was recorded by the very people they were trying to catch, officials and hackers said on Friday.

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