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President Xi Jinping has made China's ‘cyber sovereignty’ a top priority in his sweeping campaign to bolster security. (Photo: AP)

Report leaks on China’s new website: ‘Clean internet space’ or cyber vigilantism?

Beijing has been ramping up measures to secure the internet and maintain strict censorship.

19 Nov 2017 1:43 PM

The incident is at the centre of a controversy over whether the company's popular anti-virus really works as described.

Kaspersky lab releases report into upload of NSA documents

Kasperksy Lab will release new details about how its software uploaded classified US documents several years ago.

17 Nov 2017 12:46 PM

Ciaran Martin’s stark warning comes after Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday said Russia was ‘weaponizing information.’ (Photo: AP)

Britain’s cyber security alerts about possible Russian meddling in Brexit

The Times of London reported that Russian accounts posted almost 45,000 Brexit messages in 2016 referendum.

15 Nov 2017 8:33 PM

Banks need to prepare themselves with as much speed as possible as the cyber attackers are fairly more advanced sometimes than the banks. (Photo: AFP)

T expertise at banks' board level a must: RBI Executive Director

Banks need to have a broader organisational framework to prepare for cyber security threats.

09 Nov 2017 6:48 PM

In September, the US Department of Homeland Security banned Kaspersky software from use in federal offices, citing the company’s ties with Russian intelligence.

CEO says Kaspersky antivirus software also takes harmless files

Antivirus software is designed to burrow deeply into computer systems and has broad access to their contents and destroys files that contain virus.

04 Nov 2017 10:09 AM

Kaspersky's anti-virus software had automatically scraped powerful digital surveillance tools off a computer in the United States and the analysts were worried about the data's headers clearly identified the files as classified.

We uploaded US documents but quickly deleted them: Kaspersky

The account provides new perspective on the US government's recent move to blacklist Kaspersky from federal computer networks.

26 Oct 2017 11:27 AM

An alert from the US Department of Homeland Security Computer Emergency Response Team on Monday said the flaw could be used within range of Wi-Fi using the WPA2 protocol to hijack private communications.

Researchers uncover flaw that makes Wi-Fi vulnerable to hacks

CERT New Zealand and CERT India asked users to apply security updates.

17 Oct 2017 10:08 AM

This year’s study reveals promising developments in the importance being placed on IT security. Businesses globally are starting to view it as a strategic investment and the share of IT budgets that is being spent on IT security is growing, reaching almost a quarter (23%) of IT budgets in large corporations. This pattern is consistent across businesses of all sizes, including very small businesses where resources are usually in short supply.

Third party cybersecurity failures cost businesses the most

According to the report: the most costly cybersecurity breaches for businesses of all sizes result from the failures of third parties.

22 Sep 2017 1:41 PM

It is unclear which companies housed those computers, but the data showed that the hackers had gone after networks at major technology companies.(Photo: File)

Hackers used Avast's CCleaner breach to attack technology companies

Hackers who broke into widely used computer utility software in August tried to infect machines at Microsoft, Intel and other top tech firms

21 Sep 2017 9:42 AM

The team explained the underlying idea: have one neural network build something, then use another to determine its quality. This was Ian Goodfellow’s concept, who isn’t part of the research project.

Password guessing just became easier with two scary AI software

A team earlier built a generative adversarial network that is capable of making calculated guesses at what a user’s password could be.

19 Sep 2017 1:24 PM

“Businesses today need to urgently and proactively invest in it,” Sivarama Krishnan, partner and leader — Cyber Security, PwC India, said.

India needs to build local cyber security tools

Businesses need to be proactive and not just comply, says study.

07 Sep 2017 7:49 AM

The breach was eventually linked to BroadSoft, a communications company, whose unit developed the MyTWC app. (Representational image)

More than 4 million Time Warner Cable records exposed in leak

More than four million records of users of Time Warner Cable’s MyTWC app were found unsecured on an Amazon server last month.

04 Sep 2017 11:31 AM

In India, we need to empower the youth and apprise them of offence, defence and response, said expert. (Photo: File)

One cyber crime takes place every 10 minutes in NCR, says experts

Most of the cyber crime offenders are youth and college students, said an expert.

01 Sep 2017 8:33 AM

The malware allows spies to upload and download files, carry out processes, log keystrokes, identify the target’s location, steal personal data, and take screenshots, Symantec said.

India and Pakistan hit by spy malware: cybersecurity firm

In a threat intelligence report that was sent to clients in July, Symantec said the online espionage effort dated back to October 2016.

29 Aug 2017 7:54 AM

The partnership aims to leverage Airtel’s strength in India’s Business to Business (B2B) segment, helping them address the challenges of the Cloud Generation with Symantec’s innovative Integrated Cyber Defense Platform.

Airtel and Symantec announce strategic partnership

Airtel will be the exclusive Cyber Security Services partner for Symantec in India, and will distribute the enterprise security software.

28 Aug 2017 4:05 PM

The network acknowledged the hack in late July, and the thieves have been dribbling out stolen video and documents since then while demanding a multimillion-dollar ransom. (Representational image)

HBO hacker leaks another unaired episode

HBO hackers leak another unaired episode but this time it does not belong to ‘Game of Thrones.’

14 Aug 2017 8:03 AM

The hackers demanded "six month salary," which, according to the video, would be more than $6 million. (Representational image)

HBO offers $250,000 to hackers, here’s why

HBO, a unit of the media group Time Warner, did not respond to a query about the Variety report.

13 Aug 2017 10:06 AM

China's Cyberspace Administration said it was also investigating Baidu Inc's forum site Tieba over failing to comply with strict new laws that ban content which is obscene, violent and deemed offensive by the Communist Party.

China investigates top local social media sites in push to control content

President Xi Jinping has made China's "cyber sovereignty" a top priority.

11 Aug 2017 9:54 PM

This output from a sequencing machine includes the UW team’s exploit, which is being sequenced with a number of unrelated strands. Each dot represents one strand of DNA in a given sample. (Image: Dennis Wise/University of Washington)

Researcher hacks system using malware encoded in DNA

DNA sequencing tools lack robust protections against cybersecurity risks.

11 Aug 2017 8:12 AM

The first phase of National Cyber Coordination Centre, set up to detect cyber security threats, has been made operational now.

First phase of National Cyber Coordination Centre operational: IT minister

The government has also made operational botnet and malware cleaning centre that will detect malicious software and clean them.

09 Aug 2017 4:29 PM

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