Monday, 10th June, 2013

NATIONAL NEWS

• India gets ready to roll out cyber snooping agency
  • Indians using the Internet might be worried over the U.S. spy agencies snooping into their accounts and online data, but the government has set the ball rolling for creating its own multi-agency body — National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC) — that would carry out “real-time assessment of cyber security threats” and “generate actionable reports/alerts for proactive actions” by law enforcement agencie
  • “The NCCC will collect, integrate and scan [Internet] traffic data from different gateway routers of major ISPs at a centralised location for analysis, international gateway traffic and domestic traffic will be aggregated separately ... The NCCC will facilitate real-time assessment of cyber security threats in the country and generate actionable reports/alerts for proactive actions by the concerned agencies,” says a secret government note.
  • Before the NCCC comes into being, the National Information Board (NIB) has mandated the Operational Group on Cyber Security to have dialogue with stakeholders and share information to prepare a road map for setting up the cyber monitoring agency.

• Article on India – Nepal relationships

OPINION/EDITORIALS

• Article on casteism
• Article by Hardeep Singh Purin on the Syrian Issue
• Article on pack journalism
• Editorial on the issue of snooping calls by the NSA