Top Tech News: 19th February, 2018

Idea Offering Unlimited Calls and Data with 1GB at Rs.109 for the Validity of 14 Days competing Reliance Jio

The new Idea prepaid recharge plan of Rs.109 offers unlimited local and STD calls which is restricted to 250 minutes per day and 1,000 minutes per week.

Users will also get 1GB of 4G/3G data daily and 100 SMS per day with the validity of 14 days.

Idea is also offering prepaid plan of Rs.93 which will offer the same benefits as the new Rs 109 prepaid plan but with a shorter validity of 10 days.

After Cyber Heist of $81 Million from Bangladesh's Central Bank, Hackers are back to Haunt Indian Banks

Hackers who tried to steal nearly $2 million from India's City Union Bank this month used same method which was used to execute the cyber heist of $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank in 2016 which is unsolved till date.

In the case of Cyber heist which took place at Bangladesh's Central Bank, hackers infected the system with malware that disabled the "SWIFT" printer.

New Indonesia web system blocks more than 72,000 sites for displaying 'negative' contents

Recently, Indonesia has blocked more than 70,000 websites which was displaying 'negative' content on their site such as pornography or extremist ideology in the first month of using a new system to help in removing the harmful materials from the Internet.

The world's most populous Muslim-majority country, Indonesia has taken their steps forward to increase the efforts to control online content which was responsible for rise in hoax stories and hate speech, and controversial anti-pornography laws pushed by Islamic parties.

The new Indonesian web system developed by a unit of state-run Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (Telkom) which was launched in the month of January uses the 44 servers to search internet content and issue alerts on finding the inappropriate material from any website and thus blocks it.

SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Launch Confirms on 21st February

On Wednesday, Elon Musk-run SpaceX will launch its Falcon 9 rocket carrying Starlink broadband satellites and the Paz radar-imaging satellite for Spain.

The launch of Falcon 9 Rocket is scheduled from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

The Falcon 9 rocket will send SpaceX's first Starlink broadband satellites and the Paz radar-imaging satellite for Spain into orbit. The main aim of starlink satellite to provide low-cost Internet access on a global scale.