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India tells Twitter to comply with order to block accounts – sources

Twitter blocked dozens of accounts in India on Monday after the country’s Home Affairs Ministry complained that users were posting content aimed at inciting violence, a government had previously told Reuters.

But it later unblocked some of these accounts, prompting New Delhi to write to the U.S. social media giant demanding that it obey the government order, the technology ministry sources, who declined to be named as the notice to Twitter was not public, told Reuters.

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93,000 cybercrimes related to sexual exploitation, hate in 3 years: MHA

As per data maintained and published by the National Crime Records Bureau, 21,796 cybercrimes were registered in 2017, 27,248 in 2018 and 44,546 in 2019.”The motives behind cyber crime in the country include personal revenge, fraud, sexual exploitation, inciting hate, spreading piracy, stealing information etc,” Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said in a written reply to a question.

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RBI appoints firm to audit HDFC Bank’s IT infra in view of service outages

“RBI has issued an order dated December 2, 2020, to HDFC Bank Ltd with regard to certain incidents of outages in the internet banking/ mobile banking/ payment utilities of the bank over the past two years, including the recent outages in the bank’s internet banking and payment system on November 21, 2020, due to a power failure in the primary data centre,” HDFC Bank had said in a regulatory filing.

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No violation of data privacy under National Digital Health Mission, Rajya Sabha told

Providing the current status of roll out of health id under NDHM, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey said the pilot phase of the mission is active in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Ladakh, Lakshadweep and Puducherry.

As on January 21, as many as 6,30,478 Health IDs have been generated. The selection of vendors for NDHM is compliant with various applicable rules and policies of the government, he said.

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Insutech Trov to launch cover for fully electric London-based fleet

“This partnership with UFODRIVE is the first of, hopefully, many for Trov within the UK market and highlights the vital convergence of the future of transportation with the future of insurance. We’re delighted to help them manage their holistic risk effectively, so they can focus on bringing more sustainable transport options to consumers and businesses in London and beyond,” said Ed Axon, Global Head of Business Development at Trov.

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Suspected Russian hackers gained edge through tech firm attacks

“Attackers are getting more sophisticated, and pursuing persistence over time instead of smash and grab techniques,” said Jim Jaeger, a former U.S. Air Force brigadier general who is now president and chief cyber strategist at the cyber investigations firm Arete Advisors LLC. “Now they’re aspiring to use cyber-security tools to get inside our networks. They’re taking our safeguards and using them against us.”

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  IRDAI chief cautions India Inc on Cyber Risks, 14 general insurers issue 38,000 individual cyber covers

Khuntia was addressing “ The Global Cyber Insurance Summit 2021”,the first -ever such international event organised virtually, on Friday,by GIC Re, Data Security Council of India and City of London Corporation, to identify and discuss leading cyber risks faced by corporates

According to a senior Marsh India official , not more than 400 to 500 Indian corporates that have bought cyber policies 

The average policy size of a cyber insurance policy, in the BFSI segment, ranges from $ 1-50 million while a few have taken covers for $ 300 million and the largest policy size in this segment is at $ 400 million. 

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