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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)

New Russian-speaking hacking group hunts for financial organizations

This is exactly the case with Silence Trojan which compromises its victim's infrastructure via spear phishing emails.

3 Nov 2017 1:04 PM IST

Cyber Hack. (Representational Image/AP)

Third party cybersecurity failures cost businesses the most

The most costly cybersecurity breaches for businesses of all sizes result from the failures of third parties.

25 Sept 2017 4:23 PM IST

Brute force attack is when hackers repeatedly try to gain access to systems using a range of different passwords.

Hackers were snooping inside Equifax as of march

The attackers then essentially cased the Equifax system for several weeks, the Journal reported.

21 Sept 2017 10:16 AM IST

Avast said little about the breach, posting nothing on its Twitter account in the 12 hours after the announcement and displaying nothing on its main web page.

CCleaner hacked, 2.2 million PCs affected

Only the cloud version could be updated automatically to remove the bad code.

19 Sept 2017 9:31 AM IST

The files, more than 600 gigabytes in size, were discovered on Aug. 24 without a password by researchers of Kromtech Security Center, the technology news website reported.

More than four million Time Warner Cable records exposed in leak

About four million Time Warner Cable records containing details of its customers were found unsecured on an Amazon...

2 Sept 2017 9:25 AM IST

In much of the nation, especially where tech expertise and budgets are thin, the companies effectively run elections either directly or through subcontractors. (Photo: AP)

US election integrity depends on security-challenged firms

The businesses also face no significant federal oversight and operate under a shroud of financial and operational...

30 Oct 2018 9:32 AM IST

This collaborative analysis suggested an evolution of IoT botnets, from a nearly exclusive use case of launching DDoS attacks to more sophisticated activities such as ransomware distribution and crypto-mining. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mirai botnet hacker ordered to pay USD 8.6 million in damages

Paras Jha was one of three people responsible for the Mirai Botnet, a network of more than 100,000 infected...

29 Oct 2018 8:13 AM IST

Gemalto profusely regrets on its Breach Level Index Report 2018 and the subsequent press release issued in India on 15th October where it has by mistake taken into account an unverified news article about alleged Aadhaar data breach.

Update: Data breaches compromised 3.3 billion records in first half of...

Gemalto has withdrawn the alleged AADHAAR data error from the Breach Level Index.

19 Oct 2018 10:56 AM IST

The cases that are often registered include phishing, online fraud, cheating, stalking on social media, email abuse, hacking and copyright violations.

Data breaches compromised 4.5 bln records in Q1/Q2, 2018

Almost 1 billion records were compromised in Aadhar breach incident.

15 Oct 2018 7:01 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.

Cyber attacks: 31% Indian organisations to be victims in future

We need to collaborate to stay protected from cyberthreats, increase our resilience over a period of time.

15 Oct 2018 6:51 PM IST

The breach allowed attackers to access millions of users location and history.

How to know if you were a victim of Facebook's big data breach

Facebook confirmed that 29 million people were victim to the September 18 data breach.

13 Oct 2018 10:36 AM IST

Within two days, we closed the vulnerability, stopped the attack, and secured peoples accounts by resetting the access tokens for people who were potentially exposed, said Facebook.

Facebook shares details about the cyber attack

The attackers already controlled a set of accounts, which were connected to Facebook friends.

13 Oct 2018 9:36 AM IST