WannaCry ransomware cyber-attacks has affected computers in approximately 100 countries worldwide.

A computer malware that has spread across 150 countries appears to be slowing down, with few reports of fresh attacks globally on Monday.

Barring sporadic incidents in a few states, most institutions and industries across India continue to remain insulated from the effects of the ‘WannaCry’ ransomware cyberattack that has affected computers in approximately 100 countries worldwide.
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How to Free Places to Promote Your Website Online

High Profile Directories for Businesses Site

Ranging from the most high-profile website to local directories, these websites cover a range of audience. The flow is pretty much the same – you submit your website URL, as well as additional information about your business or organization. These sites, in turn, integrate your info to their data banks, ensuring that your URL link is there when users are searching your content categories. In addition to the direct display of your content, adding your URL links to these directories improve your site Search Engine Optimization, gradually improving your website ranking on search results. Read More »

Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes demolished: New 500 And 2,000 Rupee Notes That Will Be Issued

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a key announcement in his fight against black money. Addressing the nation on Tuesday evening, PM Modi abolished the currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 denominations. However, there will not be any change for other notes.
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Reserve Bank of India to issue Rs 2,000 notes soon

India is all set to add one more denomination to its currencies shortly. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will be issuing Rs 2,000 currency notes, the highest to come into circulation, even as some experts feel high-value denominations should be discontinued to curb black money.
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Yahoo Says Hackers Stole Data on 500 Million Users in 2014

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo announced on Thursday that the account information of at least 500 million users was stolen by hackers two years ago, in the biggest known intrusion of one company’s computer network.

In a statement, Yahoo said user information — including names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, encrypted passwords and, in some cases, security questions — was compromised in 2014 by what it believed was a “state-sponsored actor.”

While Yahoo did not name the country involved, how the company discovered the hack nearly two years after the fact offered a glimpse at the complicated and mysterious world of the underground web.

Oracle’s Larry Ellison has a new target: Amazon

Every year, Oracle Corp. co-founder Larry Ellison seems to pick a new rival to attack with sometimes lofty comparisons of Oracle’s technological prowess and superiority.

This year, at the company’s OpenWorld user conference in San Francisco, Oracle unleashed a slew of product announcements, and an attack on a new rival: Amazon.com. The new products included an upgrade of its core relational database software. But the arena of cloud computing, Oracle’s new growth engine, was the big focus of all its announcements, and therefore so was the leading cloud infrastructure company, Amazon Web Services. Read More »

New Office 365 Features Help Build a Better Research Paper

Microsoft on Tuesday announced a slew of cloud-powered intelligent services in Office 365 apps that aim to assist research and writing efforts.

Researcher lets users access the Bing Knowledge Graph to find and incorporate sources and content for research papers without leaving Word.

Editor uses machine learning and national language processing, combined with input from Microsoft’s linguists, to make proofing and editing suggestions designed to help users improve their writing