DNA 11 July

T.N. reports first case of Zika virus

Key facts 

Cause:Zika Virus disease is caused by a virus transmitted primarily by Aedes Mosquitoes.

Symptoms:Mild Fever,skin rash,conjunctivitis,muscular & Joint pain ,headache.These symptoms last for 2-7 days.

Transmission:primarily transmitted to people through the bite of an infected mosquito mainly in Tropical region. 

Sexual transmission of the virus is possible.

Effects:Zika virus is a cause of Microcephaly and Guillian-Barre syndrome

History:first ientified in Uganda in 1947 in Monkeys 

Cyberattack link to glitches in RJio, NSE under probe 

India is investigating whether last week’s outage of Airtel network in Delhi, alleged data breach of users of Reliance Jio Infocomm on Sunday and the technical glitch at the National Stock Exchange (NSE) on Monday were part of a “possible cyberattack.”

CERT-In

CERT-In (the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) is a government-mandated information technology (IT) security organization. The purpose of CERT-In is to respond to computer security incidents, report on vulnerabilities and promote effective IT security practices throughout the country.

CERT-In was created by the Indian Department of Information Technology in 2004 and operates under the auspices of that department. According to the provisions of the Information Technology Amendment Act 2008, CERT-In is responsible for overseeing administration of the Act.

In the recent Information Technology Amendment Act 2008, CERT-In has been designated to serve as the national agency to perform the following functions in the area of cyber security:

• Collection, analysis and dissemination of information on cyber incidents.

• Forecast and alerts of cyber security incidents

• Emergency measures for handling cyber security incidents

• Coordination of cyber incident response activities.

• Issue guidelines, advisories, vulnerability notes and whitepapers relating to information security practices, procedures, prevention, response and reporting of cyber incidents.

• Such other functions relating to cyber security as may be prescribed. 

NGOs get more time to furnish replies to save FCRA licence

• Nearly 6,000 NGOs could lose their FCRA licences, as the Union Home Ministry has sent them show cause notices for not filing their annual returns and expenditure records for five consecutive years.
• The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) licence enables NGOs to receive foreign donations.
• In May 2017, 18,523 NGOs had been given a one-time opportunity to furnish details of their income and expenses by June 14.
• The associations have been requested to furnish their replies, if any, by July 23, failing which it will be presumed that they have nothing to say and action as proposed will be taken by the Ministry as per FCRA, it said.

Ships and planes arrive, it’s days of war games

• Amid increasing rhetoric between India and China over the border standoff, the Malabar Exercise 2017 among the naval forces of India, Japan and the United States began in Chennai.
• A senior U.S. Navy officer said the U.S. participation in the exercises indicated the country's interests in maritime security in the region, even as the Chinese government hoped that the Malabar Exercise was not targeted at any specific country.
• Senior officers of the three navies denied that the exercise was aimed at China.
• "The underlying theme of Malabar is to understand each other's standard operating procedures and each other's ways of working better, to enhance camaraderie and bonhomie."
• This was the 21st edition of such an exercise.
• The Indian Navy will feature its aircraft carrier,INS Vikramaditya, with its air wing, guided missile destroyerRanvir, and its stealth frigates and corvettes, including one Sindhughosh class submarine.
• The U.S. Navy will feature ships from the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group and other units from the U.S. 7th Fleet. The nuclear-powered warshipUSS Nimitzwill also take part.
• The Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force will be represented by JS Izumo, a helicopter carrier with SH 60K helicopters and JS Sazanami, a missile destroyer with SH 60K integral helicopter.