Questions around latest developments in IT and Tech

1. Converge
Quiz 25 March

2. Q1: Connect
This organization was founded by 30 former NASSCOM members, led by two key
people behind it who were leading Nasscom’s product initiatives earlier.
It aims to be a ‘think tank’ dedicated to promoting existing Indian software product
companies. Their three focus areas will be to draft and take policy proposals to
government officials; create reusable ‘playbooks’ from successful companies that
can be applied by others; and create ‘self-help communities’.
Name the organization

3. Q2: Connect

4. Q3: Straight shot
5473 deliveries (over 900 overs ) without bowling a single wide in ODI
cricket.
Name the bowler.
Hint: Also called Whispering death

5. Q4: Connect
Shaheen Dhada and Rinu Shrinivasan from Mumbai
A tourism officer from Varanasi
Ambikesh Mahapatra, a Jadavpur University professor
Devu Chodankar from Goa
A class 11 student from UP
A man from Puducherry

6. Q5 Connect
Flame
Fire
Shamoon
Heartbleed
Prinimalka
Stuxnet
Duqu

7. Q6: Guess
Following the revolutionary vote by the Federal Communications Commission on net neutrality, President
Obama thanked this community of open-Internet advocates who flooded the FCC with comments on the
proposal supporting the agency's rules

8. Q7: Connect
● One of the largest indian business houses in its league
● Mentioned in a Newseek editorial in march 2015
● Got 600+ web pages banned under Sec. 66A
● Promoter is the best selling author of “Count your chickens before they
hatch”

9. Q8. Identify
Recently a lot of major controversies linked to this bank were exposed. One of
the ingenious schemes being was run like this:
In France, a manager, Nessim el-Maleh, was able to run a cash pipeline in
which plastic bags full of currency from the sale of marijuana to immigrants in
the Paris suburbs were collected. The cash was then taken round to Banks’s
respectable clients in the French capital. Bank accounts back in Switzerland
were manipulated to reimburse the drug dealers.
Name the Bank

10. Q9. Identify
An international hacking ring was in news for stealing as much as $1 billion
from more than 100 banks in 30 countries. The scheme, uses a unique
malware so sophisticated that hackers have used it to dispense cash from
ATMs without any physical contact with the machines, according to the report
by Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky Labs.
Name the Malware.

11. Q 10. Identify
BlackBerry and X are partners that provide data and voice encryption to
Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security. Even Chancellor Angela
Merkel was said to be a user of the pair’s tools. Name X.