India has been ranked as the 5th most affected country by cyber crimes, according to a joint study by McAfee and the Security and Defence Agenda (SDA) based in Brussels. In a report titled Cyber Security: The Vexed Question of Global Rules, states that the country gives low importance to internet privacy, in general. The SDA hopes that these findings would offer useful recommendations and actions to improve the situation. Officials from the National Security Committee claimed at the Cyber Security Summit, which concluded recently in Bangalore, that the government is currently looking at capacity building, as a first step in drafting the national security policy that is being discussed at present...

India is now capable of protecting two cities against airborne attacks, using its newly developed missile defence shield, according to the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). This effectively puts it on par with a very small elite group of nations sporting such technology. The defence organisation has successfully tested and destroyed incoming missiles within a range of up to 2000 km using this system, and has stated that this range will be upgraded to 5000 km by 2016. Prithvi missile variants were used as incoming missiles during the tests. This is a big step forward for the country that successfully tested its first ICBM, Agni-V last month...

As more and more Indians go online for longer time periods, a new report has found that they would rather forgo of a million dollars, in lieu of giving strangers unlimited access to their computers. The survey conducted by Norton across India, found out that 40% of the country's online community values its financial information the most followed by 35% who value account such as emails...