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The five-year cultural development and reform plan released by the party and State Council, or Cabinet, calls for a "perfecting" of laws and rules related to the internet.

China to further tighten its internet controls

Xi has made China's "cyber sovereignty" a top priority in his sweeping campaign to bolster security

07 May 2017 5:41 PM

Last year, Russia blocked U.S. social networking site LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, for violating a law that requires data on Russian citizens to be stored on Russian servers.

Russia blocks Chinese social media app WeChat

Access to China's most popular social media platform has been restricted since May 4

07 May 2017 5:40 PM

Wipro beefs up security after receiving a "threatening letter"

Wipro confirms that it has filed a complaint with the local law enforcement authorities after receiving a threatening letter.

07 May 2017 10:02 AM

Kaspersky Cybersecurity Index users can now view statistics on specific financial losses that have occurred as a result of cybercriminal activity, as well as compare the data for different groups of users.

Kaspersky Index reveals increase in technological expertise among people

The Index, based on an online survey of Internet users around the world, is conducted by Kaspersky Lab twice a year

16 Apr 2017 7:47 PM

Cybersecurity breaches have cost shareholders billions since 2013: Study

Severe cyber security breaches affected since 2013 globally has found.

13 Apr 2017 1:02 PM

Dallas will rely on local media, emergency 911 phone calls, and a federal radio alert system.

Computer hack sets off 156 emergency sirens across Dallas

The breach in the city of 1.6 million people was believed to have originated in the area.

10 Apr 2017 8:21 AM

Among its findings, the report said Lazarus hackers made a direct connection from an IP address in North Korea to a server in Europe that was used to control systems infected by the group.

Cyber security firm: more evidence North Korea linked to Bangladesh heist

Russian-based Kaspersky released a 58-page report on Lazarus, a group linked to the heist in Bangladesh

04 Apr 2017 9:16 PM

TUEs are issued by sports federations and national anti-doping organizations to allow athletes to take certain banned substances for verified medical needs.

IAAF says medical records compromised by Fancy Bear hacking group

Athletes who had applied for TUEs since 2012 have been contacted and IAAF president, Sebastian Coe, apologized

04 Apr 2017 9:13 PM

The most-costly type of incident for financial organizations are threats that exploit vulnerabilities in point-of- sale (POS) systems, in which an organization typically loses $2,086,000. Attacks on mobile devices are the second most costly ($1,641,000), followed by targeted attacks ($1,305,000).

Financial firms hit with million dollar losses per cyber security incident

The staggering figure is revealed as part of Financial Institutions Security Risks 2016, a survey of finance professionals

31 Mar 2017 1:47 PM

The Russian hackers didn't have to work very hard to break into people's email accounts, even those belonging to government officials or powerful executives.

How to elude Russian hackers with decent password security

Details from the Department of Justice show that people are still not taking precautions to safeguard their email accounts

17 Mar 2017 11:05 AM

Higher spending on cyber security is one of the top priorities for the ministry over the next five years.

Attacks on US-linked Polish sites back higher cyber spending - minister

He declined to specify who was behind the attacks, but said they included pro-Russian content

16 Mar 2017 9:20 PM

Kaspersky fraud prevention cloud enables machine learning for multi-channel protection

the new product features a set of cloud-based technologies designed to give banks, financial institutions and loyalty schemes providers

15 Mar 2017 5:03 PM

According to the Financial Institutions Security Risks research from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, security investment is a high priority for banks and financial institutions.

Banks spend on IT security is 3x higher than non-financial organizations

64 per cent of banks admit that they will invest in improving their IT security regardless of the return-on- investment.

15 Mar 2017 1:37 PM

Ormandy said in a Twitter message fired off from @taviso that Cloudflare has been leaking information for months, jeopardising supposedly secure data at major websites including Uber, OKCupid, Fitbit and 1Password.

Private data leaked online by Cloudflare bug

A Cloudflare service used by millions of websites to enhance security and performance.

25 Feb 2017 12:44 PM

Google rolls out AI tool to combat online trolls

The programming tool, called Perspective, aims to assist editors trying to moderate discussions by filtering out abusive "troll" comments

25 Feb 2017 12:19 PM

The US remained the biggest source of spam (12.08 per cent), with second place taken by Vietnam (10.32 per cent), and India in third (10.15 per cent)

2016: a year of ransomware in spam

The volume of spam emails in 2016 increased to 58.31 per cent of overall email traffic, a rise of 3.03 per cent on 2015.

22 Feb 2017 2:31 PM

The workforce shortage facing the cybersecurity industry makes it increasingly difficult to hire and retain employees. These scarce resources make it harder to maintain a coherent security architecture to prevent damage from and minimize the cost of emerging threats while embracing the potential of new open source, digital, cloud and security technologies.

Intel Security mends Cybersecurity Fragmentation with Unifying Strategy

The new unifying approach for the cybersecurity industry that strives to eliminate fragmentation through updated integrated solutions.

17 Feb 2017 3:03 PM

Tech wizards: Rajat Aggarwal, working as a teaching assistant at IIIT-H and Rohan Bhatial, an IIIT-H student.

Answering through tech

The start-ups will receive Rs 1 million as seed funding in exchange for two per cent equity and six months of mentorship from IIIT.

15 Feb 2017 12:17 AM

The hackers accepted the offer from the Federal Security Service, or FSB, the top KGB successor agency: show their spoils before publishing in exchange for protection.

Russian hackers get burned in deal with Russia's spy agency

Group of Russian hackers have been posting letters and documents stolen from senior Russian officials with impunity.

10 Feb 2017 1:45 PM

Giuliani, 72 and a key Trump surrogate, was last year a candidate for secretary of state but subsequently came under scrutiny in the US media over business dealings that posed potential conflicts of interest. (Photo: AP)

Trump picks Rudy Giuliani as cyber security adviser

Giuliani told reporters the aim was 'to create a very vibrant and a very robust cyber defense for both the private sector and the govt.'

13 Jan 2017 1:19 PM

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