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India to see 10 per cent salary increase in 2017: Survey NEW DELHI: Salaries are expected to rise by 10 per cent in 2017, while star performers will attract much more as companies are discernibly prioritising such employees, says a report. According to the 2016 Salary Budget Planning (Q3) Report released by global advisory, broking and solutions company Willis Towers Watson, salaries in India are projected to rise 10 per cent in 2017, same as the actual increase in 2016. Once average inflation for India of 5.7 per cent is taken into account, the projected increase in real terms for 2017 will be 4.3 per cent, down by a fraction from 4.4 per cent in 2016. The report noted that with tighter salary increase budgets, organisations are prioritising their top performers. Similar to trends in the Asia Pacific region, the report indicates that in India, 38 per cent of the budget for salary increase goes to top performers. Another 34 per cent is shared by above-average performers whi

Web of Trust (WOT) Add-on taken down by Chrome & Firefox WOT is one of the most trusted and popular add-ons used by millions of users worldwide to check the safety ratings of the websites. German news site recently reported that the add-on is malicious and can remotely execute the arbitrary commands on any web page browsed by the users including privileged browser pages. While WOT hands over the users’ data in an anonymized form, it can be severely critical. As per the analysis reported by Rob, Security Technology student and AMO editor working on Firefox WebExtensions, WOT can also steal the banking credentials of the users besides installing a malware in their system. Downloaded for more than 140 million times, the extension WOT collects and sells the information like user ID, web address, location, time and date. Among other things, data stored by WOT also include the travel details of users, sexual preferences as well as illness of users. This information is sold