Wednesday, 20 July 2011

India, US join hands to tackle cyber crime...

With cyber-crime becoming a common phenomenon in recent times, India and the US have joined hands to tackle the global menace. The two nations have signed an accord on cyber security under which they will intensify exchange of information on threats to networks and computers. They will work together on developing technologies against cyber-attacks. The two allies will also work on a software platform to make available non-sensitive government data to the public.The data sharing platform will be similar to the US data.gov project. It may be recalled that the US had launched www.data.gov web-portal in May 2009 with some 47 data sets. The web portal presently provides access to information related to the US on about 4 lakh parameters. According to reports, India will soon...

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