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China-based hackers luring Indians into fake malicious Tata Motors scam

Jun 10, 2021

“The campaign is pretended to be an offer from Tata Motors but hosted on the third-party domain instead of the official website of Tata Motors which makes it more suspicious,” the research team said in a statement.

Young, Indian, Unvaccinated: the world’s largest inoculation drive falters

Jun 10, 2021

The government expects vaccine supplies to improve substantially from June. It is expecting to produce enough shots by December to inoculate all of its estimated 950 million adults, though those between 18 and 45 years will be the last on the priority list.

Retiring old coal plants can help Maharashtra save Rs 16,000 cr in five years: Report

Jun 10, 2021

Older coal plants are less efficient and more polluting, and will need to meet the 2015 air and water emission norms notified by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change by 2024 at the latest.

Kumar gets 9-month extension as LIC chairman

Jun 9, 2021

Analysts point out that Kumar’s extension as the chairman will help the corporation to handle its mega IPO smoothly during the current year.
Earlier, the government through an approval of ACC had extended the retirement age of LIC chairman from 60 to 62.
Siddarth Mohanty, MD, who is retiring in June 2023, will be one of the top contenders for the chairmanship of the corporation after Kumar retires in March 2022..

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International

Swiss Re launches FLOW, insurance for companies exposed to high or low water levels

Jan 8, 2019

Unlike traditional insurance covers, which often require loss investigations and adjudication, FLOW provides pay-out of fixed amounts based on a defined index, for example each day the index remains below or above the defined index threshold value

Los Angeles releases Earthquake Warning App

Jan 7, 2019

Based on a warning system developed by the U.S. Geological Survey, the app will alert when there’s a quake of magnitude 5.0 or greater in the state.

262 terror attacks killed 595 people in Pakistan in 2018: Report

Jan 7, 2019

“Balochistan was the only region where terrorism-related killings surged, by over 23 per cent, when compared to 2017; most of these fatalities resulted from attacks by religiously-inspired militant groups,” according to the report.

Around 171 attacks in entire Pakistan were perpetrated by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its splinter groups – Jamaatul Ahrar, Hizbul Ahrar and others, which killed 449 people.
Nationalist insurgent groups, mostly in Balochistan and a few in Sindh, carried out 80 attacks, martyring 96 people.

How Big Tech is using Artificial Intelligence to stop Hackers

Jan 6, 2019

Hackers are themselves famously adaptable, of course, so they too could harness machine learning to create fresh mischief and overwhelm the new defenses. For example, they could figure out how companies train their systems and use the data to evade or corrupt the algorithms. The big cloud services companies are painfully aware that the foe is a moving target but argue that the new technology will help tilt the balance in favor of the good guys.

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