Instead of morphing Internet into a monster, parents need to guide their children through the labyrinthine digital world The ubiquitous internet makes its presence felt 24×7 in our life but so do its attendant fallouts. Just this week witnessed suicide by a 21-year-old college student in Salem. Not because she failed in exams or was […]

NEW DELHI: It was a phone call that woke TV news anchor Ravish Kumar from deep slumber on the night of December 10. “I almost didn’t pick it up but when I did, I was shocked,” Kumar recalls. His email account had been hacked. Kumar’s account was hacked by a group of people who call […]

You’re in a rush, you double park your car near a store, duck in to run some errands and return to find a parking ticket for your trouble. When you go online to rage against the local traffic cops, you aren’t cheered by a horde of others who’ve faced a similar fate. Instead, this 21-year-old […]

In May, news reports about Mumbai-based entrepreneur Vijay Nair being cyber stalked by a woman had flooded social media. Nair recounted how an acquaintance stalked him online and harassed him through WhatsApp and text messages, often using multiple international numbers, for months at end. What drew public attention was Nair’s assertion that despite evidence of […]

Is children accessing the Internet a boon or a bane? It can become a bane if a child is victimised through cyberbullying or faces other kinds of online victimisation. The recent incident of a 12-year-old boy bullied online by Facebook users, with comments and pictures circulated on the Internet, has alarmed the social media community […]

From fighting black money to leading the nation into a cashless era, the government’s demonetization drive has taken a sharp turn, plunging the nation into troubled times      ~By Karnika Seth Gone are the days when criminals would attack their victims physically. They have now found internet and computers a safe haven for committing crimes. […]