VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Trishala Dutt on her 33rd birthday goes on a road trip with Sanjay Dutt:  On Trishala Dutt's 33rd birthday (August 10),   Sanjay Dutt   shared an old photo of the two of them in which the actor is seen holding his little daughter in his arms. Sharing the photo, Dutt wrote, "Life gave me the most wonderful gift in the form of you when I became a father. Even though you live so far away, we know that our bond has just been growing stronger. Happy Birthday, my little girl,   @trishaladutt ! (sic)," followed by a heart emoji.   The father-daughter duo went for a road trip in California. Trishala took to Instagram to share pictures and videos from her birthday celebration. In a photo, they are seen twinning in white. Going by the pictures and videos, it seems they had a lot of fun... Read More

Route Mobile chairs Bhaskar Pramanik as Additional and Independent Director:  Route Mobile   announced the appointment of   Bhaskar Pramanik   as an Additional and Independent Director on the Board of the Company on August 10, 2021.   Pramanik is a seasoned entrepreneur and a tech disruptor with a career spanning over 45 years. He has held key national and global leadership positions in leading multinational technology companies, across India, Singapore, and the US. Pramanik was also on the Executive Committee of  NASSCOM , the National Committee of CII and AMCHAM, and has been a former Board member of the State Bank of India, former Chairman of Microsoft India and Managing Director at Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems in India. He was also the Global VP for Commercial Systems at Sun Microsystems Inc., based out of Menlo Park, CA.   Rajdipkumar Gupta , Managing Director and Group CEO, Route Mobile Limited, said, “We are delighted to welcome Bhask...

Accenture confirms hack after LockBit ransomware data leak threats:  The   LockBit ransomware -as-a-service (RaaS) gang has published the name and logo of what’s purportedly one of its latest victims. However,   Accenture   says it recovered just fine from backups.   Accenture is one of the world’s largest tech consultancy firms: It employs around 569,000 people across 50 countries. Accenture, the global business consulting firm with an insider track on some of the world’s biggest, most powerful companies.   The ransomware group added a note that said, "These people are beyond privacy and security. I really hope that their services are better than what I saw as an insider. If you're interested in buying some databases, reach us."   Through our security controls and protocols, we identified irregular activity in one of our environments. We immediately contained the matter and isolated the affected servers. We fully restored our affected systems from bac...

Norton buys Avast for over $8 billion:  US cyber security giant   NortonLifeLock   and   Avast  has signed for a deal worth more than $8 billion to address the growing concern on the   ransomware . All credit to the continued pendemic, which has fuelled the online activity. It is a huge step forward for consumer cyber safety and will ultimately enable us to achieve our vision to protect and empower people to live their digital lives safely",   Norton chief executive Vincent Pilette   said in a joint statement.   Avast, which was founded in the  Czech Republic , has been creating software for consumers and small businesses for 11 years, and acquired AVG five years ago. At the same time, Norton antivirus has existed in various forms since 1991, and has remained a popular option for consumers for 30 years.   Ondrej Vlcek, chief executive of London-listed Avast , said that amid increasing global cyber threats, the tie-up would allow for...

Versa Networks Earns Black Unicorn Award for 2021:  Versa Networks , a SaaS company and the leader in secure access service edge (SASE), today announced that it has earned a   Black Unicorn Award for 2021 .   Versa Networks competed against many of the industry’s leading providers of cybersecurity products and services for this prestigious award. The term “ Black Unicorn ” signifies a cybersecurity company that has the future potential to reach a $1 billion dollar market value as determined by private or public investment. These awards showcase those companies with this kind of incredible potential in the cybersecurity marketplace.   “It’s exciting to see Versa Networks has been named among other cybersecurity industry leaders in our third annual Black Unicorn awards,” said Judges Robert R. Ackerman Jr. of  www.allegiscyber.com , David DeWalt of  www.nightdragon.com , Dr. Peter Stephenson of Cyber Defense Labs and Gary Miliefsky of ...

Hackers steal more than $600m in Ethereum and other Cryptocurrencies:  Hackers   were able to breach the blockchain-based platform   Poly Network   and extracted more than $600 million in   cryptocurrencies   on Tuesday, the company announced on Twitter, marking the biggest hack ever in the decentralized finance space that’s heating up among investors. About $267million of Ether currency has been taken, $252m of Binance coins and roughly $85 million in USDC tokens. Poly tweeted, disclosing that hackers had transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to separate cryptocurrency wallets.   Tether froze more than $30 million in response to the hack; Tether Chief Technology Officer Paul Adroino tweeted.   Poly Network is a cross-chain protocol for swapping tokens across various blockchains. The founder of  Chinese blockchain project Neo  launched Poly Network in partnership with Ontology and Switcheo. Poly Network has asked digital asset exch...

RBI to impose fine on banks whose ATMs run out of cash from October 1st: I In a big relief for the common citizens, the   Reserve Bank of India   has decided to charge penalties on banks for non-availability of cash in   ATMs . The RBI has launched the ‘ Scheme of Penalty for non-replenishment of ATMs ’, which will come into effect in October. Under the scheme, a penalty of Rs 10,000 per ATM will be levied if they are out of cash for more than 10 hours per month. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has directed all banks and white label automated teller machine operators to ensure that ATMs never run out of cash.   Explaining why the new rule will be implemented, the RBI said in a statement: “A review of downtime of ATMs due to cash-outs was undertaken and it was observed that ATM operations affected by cash-outs lead to non-availability of cash and cause avoidable inconvenience to the members of the public. Therefore, been decided that the banks/  White Label ATM O...

Zomato's Q1 consolidated net loss widens to Rs 356 cr:  Zomato   said its consolidated net loss widened to Rs 356 crore for the quarter ending June 30, 2021. Zomato got listed on stock markets last month, is backed by China's   Ant Group , reported a net loss of Rs 99.8 crore in the year-ago period. The   Covid pandemic   has hurt the company's dining-out business and it incurred higher expenses in June quarter. Zomato said a second wave of Covid infections in India significantly impacted the dining-out business and reversed most of the gains the industry made in the previous quarter.   Consolidated revenue from operations rose 217% to Rs 844 crore as against Rs 266 crore a year ago. Non-cash employee stock ownership plan expenses increased in the first quarter and also affected results, the company added. Zomato's total expenses more than tripled to Rs 1,260 crore.   In a stock exchange filing, the company said, "Revenue growth was largely on the back...