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Recently, the International Quality Management System certified Agape’s proprietary product, Agape e Locks. This certification was awarded as our product matched the requirements imposed by European Union Directive No. 73/23/EEC (the Low Voltage Directive).

Thus it has now been certified that Agape e Locks operates in the voltage range of 50 to 1000 Volts AC and 75 to 1500 Volts DC; making sure it does not jeopardize the safety of people, domestic animals or property. During the auditing process the requirements for product marking and declarations of conformity were considered and so were the standards which apply to  different classes of equipments. And thus, Agape e Locks was awarded the certification in Class 1 devices as per the Low Voltage Directives.

The Leading professional data recovery provider - SalvationDATA were on holiday during the past week; but made sure that their customers did not face any problems.

October 1 is the Chinese National Day, hence they were on holiday from September 29 to October 5. However, in order to reply to their customer’s requests on time, their sales and technical support departments were serving the customers as usual, even in the holiday period.

All the customers who contacted SalvationDATA during that period, were happy with the professionalism shown by the company. Some of them even did not know about such a holiday, even though SalvationDATA had made an official announcement about the same on their website. Thus when they were provided the technical support for their queries, they were immensly happy and appreciated the company’s unique step of providing technical support.

We have heard the term bullying when we were in schools/universities. We have encountered many cases, where a senior is bullying his junior or a trickster bullying a simpleton. This act is committed when an individual hates another individual / group and wants to vent his anger.

When this bullying happens on the web, it is referred as - Cyber Bullying. The term refers to a situation when someone repeatedly makes fun of another person online or repeatedly picks on another person through emails or text messages, or uses online forums intended to harm, damage, humiliate or isolate another person. It mostly happens when teens use the Internet, cell phones, or other devices to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person. Cyber-bullies may disclose victims personal data (e.g. real name, address, or workplace/schools) at websites or forums that defames or ridicules them. Educators have observed an alarming rise in the number of school fights being filmed and posted on YouTube. Thus, many researches have started to recognize cyber bullying as cyber crime.

To talk more about this increasing menace, around 200 Bay Area educators met at Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale. Yahoo child safety expert Catherine Titlebalm informed the participants that online unethical behavior can be prevented through education. She also said that kids can be taught of different ways to protect themselves from cyber-bullying. Proper education can definitely reduce the vulnerability of kids being victims of such a menace. But some of the enforcement agencies have already started to take steps to punish the one who tries to bully someone in the cyber space.

Leading professional data recovery system provider - SalvationDATA has recently released an update for HD Doctor. The update beta for HD Doctor for WD includes some enhancements (majorly the support list, now it covers almost all WD drives) and bugfixes. Also this update adds the support for new Western Digital drives and sports a new program interface.

Customers who are interested in testing the 2.50 beta are free to download it from the link given below.

Download Link: HD Doctor For WD V2.50 Beta

For a complete list on all the bugfixes in v2.50, click here

SalvationDATA has been providing data security consultancy and comprehensive solutions for large organization and had recently partnered with Agape Inc to offer their world class solutions to the Indian market.

Recently the Police Department in Detroit shut down its crime laboratory after an audit uncovered serious errors in numerous cases. The audit reported that sloppy work had probably resulted in wrongful convictions.

The closure of the Forensic laboratory in Detroit means that all the pending and future cases will be sent to the Michigan State Police, which operates seven laboratories. While the officials from the Detroit Police Department, will try to determine whether the errors resulted in guilty verdicts against innocent people.

Such a casual approach from any forensics firm can never be tolerated as it can lead to the conviction of innocent people, thereby defeating the sole purpose of why forensic investigation is used in the trials of a crime. But as in this case, at least the city of Detroit has acknowledged their mistakes and doing what it can to correct them. While there have been cases like: Mississippi does blunder, wherein the investigation went horribly wrong and yet it was allowed to propagate further.   

A few days ago, our CEO Dr. Sachin Pandey was interviewed by a national daily - Dainik Jagran. He was asked to provide his expert thoughts on securing a WiFi connection. This comes after the terrorists hacked a WiFi system in Mumbai, to execute bomb blasts in Delhi. He discussed about the usefulness of WiFi and also provided some useful tips on securing the connection, to prevent it from being hacked and misused.

Given below is the snapshot of his interview as it appeared in the e-paper version (in Hindi).

While some researchers point out that consumption of chocolate may provide certain health benefits to the circulatory system and the heart system, further research highlights that it can also pose a security threat, specially if women consume it.

I know it sounds funny, but this fact has been backed by a survey conducted by Infosecurity Europe. They monitored around 580 workers in London and concluded that women were 4 times more likely than men to give out their passwords and other credentials in exchange of a chocolate bar.

While the real value of this ‘research’ is still uncertain, i only wonder how many people gave out a real password and how many just filled in any rubbish for a chocolate treat.

Recently, YCCE college organised a 2 day workshop on robot making. The workshop included other activities as well, like explaining the basics of C. The event was sponsored by Agape Inc, a pioneer in the Information Security and Computer forensics.

The workshop was a huge success as many young engineers, displayed their creativity by making various robots, which could perform various tasks.

Here’s the leaflet of the same.

There have been numerous cases in India, wherein crimes were commited and the criminals went unpunished. Why? Because the IT Act 2000 had many loop holes and the cyber criminals exploited the same. The police and the law enforcement could only watch the criminal executing the crime, but could do nothing. But this scenario promises to change soon.

Recently the Indian government decided to amend the Information Technology Act 2000 by incorporating new provisions. Now, the cyber forensics devices and tools used for cracking cyber crimes  would be treated as evidence in the court of law. The main objective behind this amendment is to develop indigenous cyber forensics technology to make the country self-reliant in combating cyber crimes. The government is also stressing on the development of tools for cyber forensics, state-of-the-art training in cyber forensics and technical services like cyber crime analysis and cyber crime investigation.

These steps by the Indian government promises to combat cyber crime in India to a higher degree, than what it is now.

The forensic laboratory in Kalina completed 50 years in operations. The golden jubilee celebrations started on Monday, with the launch of National Workshop on Tape Authentication & Speaker Identification. Forensic scientists and police officers participated in large numbers as experts from renowned institutes across India delivered lectures on speech, voice analysis and phonetics.

A booklet was released on the occassion which listed the major cases handled by the laboratory. The forensic lab has started techniques like polygraph test, narco-analysis, brain fingerprinting , cyber forensics, tape authentication, speaker identification and forensic clinical toxicology.