Page 5 - Cyber Security

India needs better defences to be a digital superpower after data breach

I suspect the government is right and CoWIN is not currently being accessed by hackers. Even so, it seems likely that outsiders have penetrated some aspect of India's digital public infrastructure

G20: Experts deliberate on cyber security exercise for banking sector

The Deputy Governor in his address stressed that managing cyber risks has become a key driver for ensuring financial stability

RBI announces draft cyber security norms for payment system operators

Seeks feedback on draft norms from payment system operators by June 30

RBI releases draft on cyber resilience, digital payment security controls

According to the RBI's release, the central bank has invited feedback from the shareholders on the same

WhatsApp launches global security centre to further safeguard users

The security centre will be available in English and 10 languages -- Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi, Urdu and Gujarati

Cyber attack in Greece disrupts high school exams, causes political spat

Greece's Education Ministry says it has been targeted in a cyberattack described as the most extensive in the country's history, aimed at disabling a centralised high school examination platform. It said the distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks aimed at overwhelming the platform occurred for a second consecutive day Tuesday. The attack involved computers from 114 countries, causing outages and delays in high school exams but failing to cripple the system, the ministry said. The cyberattacks prompted a judicial investigation ordered by a Supreme Court prosecutor, to be assisted by the police's cybercrime division. It is the most significant attack ever carried out against a Greek public or government organisation, the Education Ministry said, describing the incidents on Monday and Tuesday as large scale and of sustained duration. End-of year high school exams in Greece are administered using an online platform known as the Subject Bank, designed to to set a uniform stand

Bots now make up nearly half of all internet traffic, study reveals

With the introduction of Google's Bard and OpenAI's ChatGPT, the researchers fear that bot activity will rise even more this year

47% of Indian CSPs now prioritise upgrading firewalls as hacking rises

The report found that 100 per cent of the Indian service providers expect to see traffic volumes rise in the next 2-3 years

50% of firms fell victim to ransomware attacks in 2022, shows report

The survey was conducted among 569 cybersecurity leaders from 31 different locations around the world, including the US, UK, France, India, and Japan, among others

UPSRTC ticketing website hacked, may take up to 10 days to restore it

Cyber thugs hacked the ticket booking website of Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC) early Wednesday and it will take up to 10 days to completely restore it, the government said. The website was hacked by foreign hackers around 2 am due to which the ticketing system was affected and efforts are underway to restore it, the government said in a statement. M/s Orion Pro, the company managing the website, has deployed a team of experts to recover data from the website and has sought a week's time to set up a new server to restore the online ticketing services, it said. The company has also filed a case in this matter at its headquarters in Navi Mumbai. The online ticketing system will be restored in all 20 areas and 115 depots of UPSRTC in a phased manner over the next 7-10 days, the statement said. "The transport corporation's buses are being operated through manual ticketing, so that the operation of the buses is not affected. Regional officers have been asked to

Indian CISOs face challenges in securing support to combat cyber attacks

Indian CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers) said they struggle at some level to get support from the executive board for the resources needed to maintain cybersecurity strength, new report said

Twitter account of crypto exchange KuCoin hacked, over $22.6K stolen

Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin has said that its Twitter account was hacked, allowing threat actors to promote a fraudulent giveaway scam

US keen on alliance in connectivity, solid waste management with Mizoram

The Minister also asserted the prevalence of HIV/AIDS, Cancer, Malaria, TB in the state and called for better cooperation to eradicate such diseases from the state

About 52% of organisations suffered data breach in past 2 years globally

Nearly 48 per cent of Indian organisations say their security stack is too complex, compared to 28 per cent in the rest of the world

Cryptocurrency phishing attacks have grown by 40% in one year, says report

According to cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, the financial threat landscape has seen significant changes in 2022

Bug bounty hunters rake it in as incidence of cyber attacks shoots up

Last year Google paid $605,000 to ethical hackers to detect and fix vulnerabilities

Technology firms' engagement with ethical hackers at all-time high

As cyberattacks shoot up, tech firms are engaging with independent researchers more than ever

Govt's new security testing plan targets pre-installed phone apps

Smartphone players often sell their devices with proprietary apps, but also sometimes pre-install others with which they have monetisation agreements

Up to 300% spike in YouTube videos with malware to steal key users' data

The videos contain deceptive tactics that mislead users into downloading malware, making it challenging for the YouTube algorithm to identify and remove them

TMS Ep380: Rise of Jio, cyber security, consumer appliances, passive funds

What's behind Jio's rise to world's second strongest telecom brand? Will cyber security create jobs? Is it time to bet on consumer appliance stocks? What is a passive fund? All answers here