Seqrite, a cybersecurity consultant and the enterprise arm of Quick Heal Technologies, said a suspected Pakistani group has started a wave of sophisticated phishing attacks targeting India’s cricial infrastructure such as power and telecom. According to the IT security consultant, the initial intrusion chain begins with a spear-phishing email — an email that is designed […]
Signal, the open source messaging platform, has become extremely slow and even unresponsive in several parts of India after a sudden rush of new users looking for a more secure alternative to WhatsApp. Global interest in Signal app has jumped by around 50 times since WhatsApp announced changes to its terms of use last week. […]
The case filed by TikTok against its ban in India has been dismissed by the High Court of Telangana, the central government informed the Rajya Sabha today. “Tiktok had approached Honorable High Court of Telangana on 20.07.2020 challenging the ban imposed by the Government of India. The court after detailed hearing disposed the matter in […]
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, today clarified that it has not conducted any sort of study to check if Chinese-made smartphones used in India are sending sensitive data to their country of origin. “Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has not conducted any such study,” said Minister of State Sanjay […]
The Chinese embassy in India has called the Indian move to block 59 apps from China as ‘discriminatory’ and ‘against the general trend of international trade and E-commerce’. India blocked the apps yesterday in response to China ratcheting up its military presence on the Indian border, ostensibly in preparation for an attack on India. The […]
As the China’s People’s Liberation Army continues to amass weapons at the Indian border, Government of India has sought to secure the country’s IT infrastructure by banning all the major and popular Chinese apps available in India at present. The following is the full-text of the statement given by the government of India explaining the […]
Telecom Analytics Solutions provider Subex Limited said that it has partnered Spanish multinational telecommunications company Telefonica on a new cybersecurity venture focussed on Internet of Things (IoT) security. IoT security refers to safeguarding connected devices and networks in the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT involves adding internet connectivity to devices and machines and animals to […]
Social and mainstream media is abuzz with headlines that scream that the Aadhaar database has been ‘leaked’ or ‘breached’ by miscreants and that the UID Authority of India has been caught napping. “Personal data of a billion Indians sold online for £6”, screams the Guardian. “Local Indian newspaper was able to access the private data […]
There was a massive 54% increase in the number of records stolen by cyber criminals across the globe in 2016, and the expanding adoption of connected devices is increasing the danger of hacking, Wipro Ltd said in its State of Cybersecurity Report. The report found that the emergence of smart devices like connected cameras, cars, […]
Incidents of fraud and theft involving credit and debit cards have fallen sharply in the current financial year, according to data for the first nine months provided by the Reserve Bank of India. While the exact reasons for the sharp decrease is not known, banks in India have been putting in more and more precautions after […]
The rapid increase in Internet penetration in India seems to be having an unintended consequence, an equally fast rise in the instance of spam originating in the country. According to Kaspersky Lab’s annual spam report, India and Vietnam were almost tied for second place in terms of the number of spam emails sent out in […]
Cyberinc, an Aurionpro solutions company, said it will launch a malware isolation product ‘Isla’ in India on December 1st. “Cyberinc’s Isla web malware isolation system protects organizations from the most advanced web borne threats by isolating all web content outside the network perimeter,” said the company. “This approach will help eliminate the risk of drive-by-downloads, […]
Darktrace, a British cyber security company, said it partnered with AGC Networks, an India-based technology solutions provider to expand the market for the company´s self-learning technology. “This partnership allows more and more organizations to benefit from Enterprise Immune System technology across Asia, helping defend against today’s advanced cyber-threats,” said Sanjay Aurora, Darktrace Managing Director, Asia-Pacific. […]
HP said smartwatches with network and communication functionality represent a new and open frontier for cyberattack, quoting results of a study. The study conducted by HP Fortify found that 100 percent of the tested smartwatches contain significant vulnerabilities, including insufficient authentication, lack of encryption and privacy concerns1. In the report HP provides actionable recommendations for […]
Over five lakh jobs in cyber security are opening up while there are hardly 2,000 trained for this job, said leading business chamber ASSOCHAM at a workshop on “Cyber and Network security” organized here at New Delhi. Dilip Chenoy MD and CEO, National Skill Development Corporation said this was an underestimate. ”With some 44 million […]
