The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) said that more than one crore youth are annually joining and benefitting from the Skill India program.Delivering further information about the scheme, an official release said that this year, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) completed its4 successful years, since its inception in 2014.

Publication : The SME Times 

According to the report, ransomware, exploits, potentially unwanted application and adware, infectors, and worms remained popular attack methods for cybercriminals, but what was interesting to note was the growing threat posed by cryptojacking (hijacking a internet enabled device to run crypto currency mining software in the background).

Publication: Business Standard 

In a hyper-connected India, Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to reach an estimated 2 billion connections, according to a joint study by Assocham-EY. The joint report highlights that while India holds huge potential, this promising market currently lags behind the US, China and South Korea in connectivity via the optical fiber. As demand for 4G and subsequently 5G grows, networks will become “denser and deeper” making fiberisation an imperative, the study said.

 Publication : Zee News 

In anticipating the major cybersecurity and privacy trends for the coming year, you can find plenty of clues in the events of the past 12 months. Among the now familiar forms of attack, cyber hacks of major corporate systems and websites continued in 2018 and will inevitably be part of the 2019 cybersecurity scene. Many well-known organizations around the world suffered significant breaches this year. The single largest potential data leak, affecting marketing and data aggregation firm Exactis, involved the exposure of a database that contained nearly 340 million personal information records.

Publication : Dataquest