Bank of America Loses Tapes of Records of 1.2 Million With Visa Cards

April 12th, 2005 An investigation by the firm's Anglo-Dutch parent Reed Elsevier determined that its databases had been fraudulently breached 59 times using stolen passwords, leading to the possible theft of personal information such as addresses and Social Security numbers. This is the second biggest breach after Bank of America incident.

February 26th, 2008 Steps to apply for Non-Immigrant US Visa from India

May 22nd, 2009 The National Archives and Record Administration has lost two-terabyte of hard drive enclosing degital records from Bill Clinton’s presidency. The  hard drive was reported to have copies of electronic storage tapes from the Executive Office of the President of the Clinton Administration.

June 21st, 2006 The Programmers Guild, an IT worker interest group, has filed 300 discrimination complaints this year against companies alleged to have posted "H-1B visa holders only" ads on job boards. These job ads are accused of disregarding the Immigration and Nationality Act, which makes it illegal to discriminate against U.S.

April 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON - India's software industry has opposed a US bill that seeks to make it mandatory for American companies to fill vacancies with locals before turning to skilled foreign workers. 'The stated objective of the bill is to prevent fraud and visa abuse.

October 7th, 2009 Agents arrest dozens for theft scheme in US, EgyptLOS ANGELES — Authorities said Wednesday they have arrested 33 people in breaking up a crime ring in the U.S. and Egypt in which an elaborate "phishing" scam bilked bank customers out of at least $1 million.

March 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Four Indian IT outsourcers - Infosys Technologies, Wipro Technologies, Satyam Computer Services and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) - dominate the list of companies winning H-1B visas in 2008. The four together used more than 10,000 of the visas for skilled professional limited to 65,000 foreign-educated workers per year, according to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

March 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Four Indian IT outsourcers - Infosys Technologies, Wipro Technologies, Satyam Computer Services and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) - dominate the list of companies who won H-1B visas in 2008. The four together used more than 10,000 of the visas for skilled professional limited to 65,000 foreign-educated workers per year, according to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

May 3rd, 2006 Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer of the prestigious SANS institute said that many of the most popular banking sites may be needlessly placing their customers at risk and I agree with him. The key issue is the user login areas that can be found on banking sites like Chase.com or American Express.com which ask users to submit their user ID and password information.

February 4th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Maytas Infra, owned by former chairman of Satyam Computer Services B. Ramalinga Raju's family, has issued a legal notice to Vendanta Aluminum Ltd for 'fraudulently and illegally' encashing two bank guarantees worth Rs.640 million (Rs.64 crore) and for not clearing admitted dues.

June 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - Nucleus Software Exports Ltd has tied up with Mexican consulting and distribution firm Praxis to market its software products in the Latin American country, the leading IT products firm said Tuesday. As our channel partner, Praxis will distribute our software products in the banking, insurance and financial services (BFSI) sector in the Mexican market and enable us to strengthen our presence in Latin America, Nucleus global sales head Niraj Vedwa said in a statement.

August 2nd, 2005 Christopher Abad, a research scientist with Cloudmark, a San Francisco-based spam filtering service provider spend time lurking (possibly using bots) in phishing communities and gained valuable understanding on their economies and social structure. To summarize the economy is still based on demand-and-supply (no surprise here) - "Phishing economies are self-organized merchants and consumers governed only by the laws of supply and demand".

November 26th, 2005 Smart cards are used for applications including access control, banking, and mobile-phone subscriber identification. Typically the size of a credit card, they contain an embedded microprocessor with a secure operating system that can establish an encrypted connection with a card reader.

August 10th, 2006 The US Department of Transportation has announced that a Dell laptop computer containing names, addresses and social security numbers of 133,000 Florida residents was stolen two weeks ago. The information on the missing laptop included people in Miami-Dade County who hold commercial drivers licenses, Florida residents who have pilot's licenses and people who got their Florida drivers licenses from a facility in Largo, Fla.

July 20th, 2008 Just after announcing its quarterly results Google lost over 16 billion dollar on Friday. The last trade was at 481.32, down from its previous day high of 534.75.