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Its clear that India faces expanded and more potent cyber threats.

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Fintech, mobile banking and e-commerce could be prime target of cyber...

2019 has seen some significant developments in the industry and also in how financial attackers operate.

30 Dec 2019 8:36 AM IST

Norton had earlier hinted that cyber criminals are looking for a target in bulk, and India suits well to them a large, vulnerable population with money .

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Smaller cities become bigger targets of cyber criminals

The infection rate in Hyderabad was 41 per cent up from 39 per cent recorded in the previous quarter.

24 Dec 2019 1:41 AM IST

Australia has established a security task force to guard against cyber attacks.

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Report details rise in worldwide targeted attacks

SonicWall's patent-pending Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection (RTDMI) identified 74,290 never-seen-before attacks in 2019.

27 March 2019 3:31 PM IST

While the Dirty Secret of Network Firewalls survey indicated that 30% IT managers think their organizations current defenses are not sufficient to block cyberthreats they have seen in the past year.

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Shifting Threats require businesses to rethink security priorities

In 2018, Asia (42.9 per cent) and the Americas (33 per cent) saw the highest number of ransomware threats.

7 March 2019 12:42 PM IST

Small and medium enterprises, especially those that do not use their own domain and hosted email service, are most at risk of cyber security threats. (Photo | WIkimedia Commons - Jaydeep)

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If you're a small business, your email is most vulnerable to cyber...

Ransomware attacks are also rising but one can protect oneself using backup clouds and locking systems, such as multiple...

28 Jun 2020 8:18 PM IST

Chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White briefs reporters at the Pentagon, May 3, 2018. DoD photo by Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith

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Not just the US election, even critical infrastructure faces rising...

Virtual war games are being conducted to sharpen the US Cyber Command's ability to counter online threats.

26 Jun 2020 6:48 PM IST

In the face of these growing cyber threats, organisations are demonstrating far more success in detecting and blocking them, according to the study.

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Cyber threats, spying bigger threat to Canada than terrorism: spy...

Activities by hostile states can have a corrosive effect on our democratic systems and institutions.

5 Dec 2018 12:03 PM IST

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US state officials demand better access to secrets about election...

Some election officials received top secret clearances since December 2016 to view classified material but a gap still...

17 Aug 2018 8:37 AM IST

Infections were detected in more than 50 countries, though the primary target for further actions was probably Ukraine, the site of many recent infections and a longtime cyberwarfare battleground. (Photo: Pixabay)

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FireEye cautions Malaysian firms of heightened cyber risk

Malaysia's political shift and Belt & Road links lead to heightened interest from state-linked.

16 Aug 2018 8:02 PM IST

The kind and the scale of these cyber weapons was such that even the CIA lost control of majority of its hacking arsenal which includes state of the art malware, viruses, Trojans and weaponised zero day exploits which can be worth millions of dollars each in dark web.

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Criminal benefits: profit margin of a DDoS attack can reach 95 per...

Arranging an attack costs as little as $7 an hour, while the targeted company can end up losing thousands, if not...

27 March 2017 5:49 PM IST

Russia, which has denied hacking U.S. systems, has been accused of interference in the U.S. presidential election by hacking American political sites and email accounts. (Photo: Representational Image)

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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...

17 March 2017 11:05 AM IST

$Yahoo disclosed that as part of its investigation into the prior breach, it had received data files from law enforcement \that a third party claimed was Yahoo user data.\$ Technology

German cyber agency chides Yahoo for not helping hacking probe

Yahoo did not respond to requests for comment, while Ireland's data protection agency was not immediately available

11 May 2017 7:50 PM IST