HCL, Symantec - Current Affairs Questions and Answers

1)   Who has been appointed HCL(Hindustan Copper Ltd) CMD w.e.f. 14th Aug 2017?

a. Santosh Singh
b. Santosh Sharma
c. Santosh Mehta
d. Santosh Kumar
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Santosh Sharma

Explanation:
Santosh Sharma was on 14th Aug 2017 appointed as chairman and managing director (CMD) of Hindustan Copper Ltd (HCL). He is currently director (operations) in the same company.

The appointments committee of the cabinet (ACC) has approved his appointment to the post for a period of five years, an order issued by the department of personnel and training (DoPT) said.

Emandi Sankara Rao has been appointed as managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) of Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI) Ltd.

He is at present working as director and CEO of IIFCL Asset Management Company Ltd. Rao has been appointed to the post for a period of three years, the DoPT order said.

The ACC has also approved appointment of Debasis Jana as CMD of Andrew Yule and Co. Ltd (AYCL), Kolkata. He is working as director (planning) in the same company. He will hold the post for five years.

Hindustan Copper Limited: Know More

  • Hindustan Copper Ltd. is a Government-owned corporation in the Central Public Sector Enterprise under the Ministry of Mines (India), Government of India.
  • HCL is the only vertically integrated copper producer in India engaged in a wide spectrum of activities ranging from Mining, Beneficiation, Smelting, Refining and Continuous Cast Rod manufacturer.
  • HCL shares are listed at Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta, Chennai, Ahmedabad exchanges.
  • On 31 July 2015, the government of India announced a 15% stake sale in Hindustan Copper Limited, reducing its stake from 89.5% to 74.5%.
  • The headquarters of this company are in Kolkata. It is also located in Delhi and Bengaluru.
  • Its website is www.hindustancopper.com
2)   IT major Symantec released an automated solution to counter which cloud bug?

a. Cloudburst
b. Cloudbleed
c. Cloudbust
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Cloudbleed

Explanation:
Symantec on March 6, 2017 released an automated solution to identify and resolve potential exposure to 'Cloudbleed' - a bug that compromised millions of user accounts in cloud applications.

The company has released the solution to current Symantec 'ProxySG' customers.

The solution leverages integrations between its 'CloudSOC Cloud Access Security Broker' (CASB) and the broader Symantec security portfolio.

Discovered on February 17, 'Cloudbleed' is a security bug that leaked data from the content delivery network Cloudflare.

Following the incident, Symantec analysts mapped the vulnerable 'CloudBleed' web URLs to specific cloud applications and 'CloudSOC Audit' identified more than 2,000 applications that were potentially affected by CloudBleed.

As a result, 'CloudSOC Audit' now tracks the CloudBleed vulnerability as an at-risk attribute for cloud applications.

'CloudSOC Audit' tracks intelligence on over 20,000 cloud applications based on 90-plus different risk attributes, now including the 'CloudBleed' vulnerability.

CloudBleed: Know More

  • Cloudflare, which is used by more than 5.5 million websites leaked mass amounts of sensitive user information from those sites.
  • This is including passwords, private messages, hotel bookings, and more between September 2016 and February 18th of this year.
  • The leak has been called ‘Cloudbleed’.
  • Security researcher, Tavis Ormandy, discovered the vulnerability, which is the result of a software bug in their code.
  • This is technically known as a buffer overrun.

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