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87% of Indian cos victims of security breach last year: Report – ET CISO

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New Delhi, At least 87 per cent of Indian respondents said their organisations were victims of security breach in the last year, a report said on Thursday. According to Cloud-enabled security solutions provider Barracuda, companies with staff working predominantly from home had a significantly

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Data breach in networks of Indonesian ministries and agencies – ET CISO

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New Delhi, A China-based cyber-espionage threat actor has apparently breached the internal networks of at least 10 Indonesian government ministries and agencies, including the computers of Indonesia’s primary intelligence service, the Badan Intelijen Negara (BIN). The revelation of this invasive cyber-espionage attempt comes at a time when the two countries are

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Apple fixes security hole reportedly used to hack an iPhone – ET CISO

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Apple released a critical software patch to fix a security vulnerability that researchers said could allow hackers to directly infect iPhones and other Apple devices without any user action. Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said the security issue was exploited to plant spyware on a Saudi activist’s iPhone. They said they had […]

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Cyber arms dealer exploits new Apple iPhone software vulnerability; affects most versions: Researchers – ET CISO

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Sept 13 – A cyber surveillance company based in Israel has developed a tool than can break into Apple iPhones with a never-before-seen technique for at least six months, internet security watchdog group Citizen Lab said on Monday. The discovery is important because of the critical nature of the vulnerability, which affects all versions of […]

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25+ ATM users duped of lakhs in 15 days, police stns yet to act – ET CISO

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Nagpur: Police stations of MIDC, Hingna, Wadi and adjoining ones were caught napping as citizens lost lakhs of rupees through ATM skimming in the last fortnight. The victims lost money as their accounts started getting debited due to repeated withdrawals from ATMs in Bihar, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh. CCTV footage in the city captured an […]

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Hackers deface Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha website, post objectionable messages – ET CISO

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LUCKNOW: Just days after a Saharanpur man hacked into the Election Commission of India site and churned out 10,000 fake voter IDs, the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha’s official website was defaced with objectionable messages coupled with a huge blurb of a cough expectorant peddled in Vietnam. The Uttar Pradesh Development Systems Corporation Limited (UPDESCO), which […]

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UN confirms cyberattack in April 2021 – ET CISO

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United Nations, The UN has confirmed a Bloomberg news report about an April 2021 cyberattack on its computers. “We can confirm that unknown attackers were able to breach parts of the UN (communications) infrastructure in April of 2021,” Xinhua news agency quoted Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, as saying on Thursday.

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Hackers access personal data of 79,400 customers of Singaporean communications services provider – ET CISO

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By Gurdip Singh Singapore: A local mobile operator and internet service provider in Singapore on Friday said that hackers have accessed the personal data of its 79,400 subscribers, the latest incident in a string of cyberattacks in recent months. The “unauthorised data access” incident was uncovered on August 29 and the relevant authorities had been […]

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Web threats increased at dual speed in India in Q2: Report – ET CISO

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New Delhi: The number of web threats in India increased at dual speed in the second quarter of 2021, as compared to the first quarter of the year, a report said on Thursday. According to cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, in the period April-June 2021, it detected and blocked around 8.30 crore (8,30,45,576) different Internet-borne cyberthreats on […]

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Russian internet firm Yandex hit by major cyber attack: Report – ET CISO

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MOSCOW: Russian internet giant Yandex said on Wednesday it had been hit by a cyber attack that the Vedomosti daily reported was largest DDoS attack in the history of the Russian segment of the internet, citing sources in the company. The so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, in which hackers attempt to flood a network with […]