Client called nw_connection_get_connected_socket on unconnected nw connection

New Delhi: Technology services provider NTT said on Tuesday that it will give qualified clients a free-of-charge specialized sensor capability, which will enable enterprises and public sector agencies to make an initial determination of their risk and potential means to mitigate attacks related to the recent SolarWinds incidents.A supply chain attack through SolarWinds which is commonly used as network management software, allowed malware to be distributed to a minimum 18,000 organizations around the world last year in December. NTT said that in response to these supply chain attacks, it will provide companies that believe themselves to be at risk of compromise with their 30-day trial of our Specialized Sensor for SolarWinds Detection and Alerting across all platforms other than Azure, at no charge. In this offering, the company will deploy specialized sensors in AWS and Google Cloud Platform environments for the detection of Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) specific to the SolarWinds … [Read more...] about NTT offers Cyber Threat Sensor to clients as result of SolarWinds attacks

Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Tuesday chaired a meeting of the State Wildlife Board and approved a proposal to set up a wolf sanctuary spread over 800 acres of forest area at Bankapura-2 reserve in Gangavathi division of Koppal district, Kalyana-Karnataka region. The forest patches falling within Bankapura and Mallapur villages comprise hillocks and thorny vegetation. The Indian grey wolves inhabit the dry grassland region in the Koppal district. … [Read more...] about Proposal to set up wolf sanctuary in Koppal gets approval

The NGO started operations in Yerpedu mandal of Chittoor district in 2016 and with its community outreach model, brought children of 23 eligible families under its direct care. “The impoverished tribal families are living in vulnerable conditions at Chindepalli tribal colony before we commenced our family strengthening programme. The primary class children were quite irregular and 90% of them dropped out from school after class V, who either ended up as agricultural workers or got stuck in child marriages,” says SOS Children’s Villages of India’a senior deputy national director Sumanta Kar. … [Read more...] about Tribal families get house sites under Illa Pattalu scheme

Addressing the agitating staff members here, Chandrashekhar clarified that the government in effect has accepted eight of the demands as in the case of the ninth demand on implementing Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, the state government had assured only if it gets finance department`s clearance, which means to say that it is still very ambiguous. … [Read more...] about Karnataka transport strike: KSRTC, BMTC call off protest; bus services resume in Bengaluru and other areas

KOCHI: To ensure that healthcare workers (HCW) don’t miss out on their date with Covid vaccination due to glitches in the Co-WIN software, the vaccination centre staff have now started calling the HCWs directly rather than depending on an SMS. To ensure smooth functioning, hospitals are also sharing a daily list of 50-odd HCWs, who have registered for the vaccination programme and are available to get vaccinated on the day, with the vaccine centres.Confirming that now the staff at vaccination centres are manually contacting (with permission from Central government) HCWs in the list, asking them to come for vaccination, Dr Rathan U Kelkar, state mission director, National Health Mission, said, “We want to build confidence among people and not create any anxiety. There is a need to plan sessions but it happens that sometimes we will not be able to get everybody in the list for vaccination. There are times when a lesser number of people turn up for vaccination and therefore we … [Read more...] about Kerala: Health workers to get direct calls to ensure vaccination