CyberSecurity

India witnessed 4.3 lakh cyber attacks from China, Russia and US, reveals report

According to F-Secure's honeypot data, Russia, the US, China, the Netherlands and Germany targeted India with 436,090 attacks. This is nearly 12 times more than which originated from India.

Nov 12, 2018

Hackers selling stolen private Facebook messages for 10 cents per account

Facebook is back in the news with another data breach incident involving thousands of accounts and private messages shared on the platform. Read more about it here.

Nov 3, 2018

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India has the most number of internet shutdowns across the world, says report

The data, which was compiled by Software Freedom Law Centre, showed that there were 121 instances till date this year when the government authorities shut down the internet.

Nov 2, 2018

Cathay Pacific hack: Passport details and credit card information of 9.4 million passengers stolen

The Cathay Pacific breach includes details such as passengers' names, dates of birth, telephone numbers, nationality, email and postal addresses, travel history, passport numbers and credit card information.

Oct 24, 2018

North Korean hacker group Lazarus stole $571 million in mutiple crypto attacks

Lazarus was behind 14 hacking attacks on cryptocurrent exchanges since January 2017 -- stealing $571 million.

Oct 21, 2018

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Karnataka Police ties up with Infosys to build state-of-the-art Cybercrime Investigation Training & Research Centre

As part of the MoU, Infosys Foundation in collaboration with Karnataka Police will set up the Centre for Cybercrime Investigation Training & Research (CCITR) and offer hardware & software tools in addition to training the police officers and more in Bengaluru.

Oct 3, 2018

Facebook security breach affects 50 million users: How to know if your account has been hacked?

The breach was discovered on Tuesday and the company had informed the police.

Sep 29, 2018

Watch out Mark! Hacker claims to delete Zuckerberg's Facebook page on live broadcast

A Taiwanese hacker claims to delete Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page while broadcasting it live on Sunday.

Sep 28, 2018

Indian govt develops own game app in bid to counter rising cyber crimes against children

The game has been developed amid rising cases of suicide by children due to challenges like 'blue whale' and 'momo'.

Sep 23, 2018

China shuts down over 4,000 pornographic, gambling websites in clean-up campaign

China keeps the internet under tight control and has been cracking down on a range of illegal online activities including pornography, gambling, religious proselytising and even "spreading rumours".

Sep 23, 2018

Twitter bug may have compromised messages of 3 million users

The bug ran from May 2017 and within hours of discovering it on September 10, Twitter said it fixed the bug to prevent data from being unintentionally sent to the incorrect developer.

Sep 22, 2018

National security at risk with Rs 2,500-worth patch capable of unverified Aadhaar enrolment

Is Aadhaar as safe as the Modi-led government claims it to be? Not anymore, say several analysts of a patch that bypasses critical security features.

Sep 11, 2018

If you have an iPhone, chances are high that you may fall prey to this popular phishing attack

If you are someone who does not pay any keen attention to the authenticity of text messages, then you may easily fall prey to a popular phishing attack targeted on Apple users.

Sep 8, 2018

Top paid utility Mac app Adware Doctor steals user data; sends it to Chinese server

Apple, despite being aware of this since a month, hasn't pulled down the app.

Sep 8, 2018

Micromax, Karbonn, Spice Launch Google Android One Smartphones in India; Price, Specifications Details

Android Wi-Fi bug exposes location details of phone users; Google to fix only Pie-powered mobiles

Google has acknowledged the Wi-Fi bug, but won't be fixing the issue in Android 8.0 Oreo and older phones.

Sep 3, 2018

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