Cyber Security Breach

CoinStats has brought its functioning app to a temporary pause after suffering a hack attack over the weekend. Cyber criminals behind the attack lured CoinStats users to click malicious links, falsely informing users of a reward worth 14.2 ETH or $48,128 (roughly Rs. 40.2 lakh). A total of 1,590 crypto wallets have been affected as part of this bre...

Outside the world of open-source software, its likely few people would have heard about XZ Utils, a small but widely used tool for data compression in Linux systems.

After the Union health ministry dismissed reports of a data breach on the CoWIN platform, cyber security firm CloudSEK has said that threat actors do not have access to the entire portal nor the backend database. "Based on matching fields from Telegram data and previously reported incidents affecting health workers of a region, we assume the inform...

A massive data breach that has implications for national security was unearthed by Cyberabad Police here, who arrested seven people of a gang allegedly involved in the theft and sale of sensitive data of the government

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairperson Justice (Retd) Arun Kumar Mishra on Thursday called for a stringent law to deal with "unlawful Internet behaviour and cyber crimes." He was speaking after the inauguration of the 25th All India Forensic Science Conference at the National Forensic Sciences University in Gandhinagar.

The server of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences remained out of service for the eighth consecutive day on Wednesday. After the suspension of two analysts from Delhi more are on the radar for suspension for breaching cyber security, the sources said.

US-based technology industry body ITI, having global tech firms such as Google, Facebook, IBM and Cisco as its members, has sought a revision in the Indian government's directive on reporting of cyber security breach incidents.

India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has released two new rules for crypto, Cloud, and VPN players. These rules need firms to save people’s KYC data for five years, and report any security breach or threat within six hours of identifying. While CERT-In is looking to strengthen India’s cyber security, its new rule has stirred con...

Intelligence agencies have unearthed a cyber security breach by military officials which is suspected to be linked to espionage-related activities by a neighbouring country.

Punjab National Bank has denied claims made in a cyber security firm's report that the personal data of the bank's millions of customers was breached due to a loophole in its system.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has opened a probe into last year's SolarWinds cyber breach, focussing on whether some companies failed to disclose that they had been affected by the unprecedented hack, two persons familiar with the investigation said.

The US government is investigating a hack against federal agencies that began during the Trump administration but was only recently discovered, according to senior US officials and private sector cyber defenders.

India's cyber security agency CERT-In has advised Facebook users to strengthen their account privacy settings after a recent global 'data scraping' incident in the social media platform affected about 61 lakh Indians.

India's cyber security agency has cautioned WhatsApp users about certain vulnerabilities detected in the popular instant messaging app that could lead to breach of sensitive information.

IT services major Infosys said on Tuesday the potential risk in brand value of a data breach to the world's 100 most valuable brands could amount to as much as 223 billion dollars.

CoinStats has brought its functioning app to a temporary pause after suffering a hack attack over the weekend. Cyber criminals behind the attack lured CoinStats users to click malicious links, falsely informing users of a reward worth 14.2 ETH or $48,128 (roughly Rs. 40.2 lakh). A total of 1,590 crypto wallets have been affected as part of this bre...

Outside the world of open-source software, its likely few people would have heard about XZ Utils, a small but widely used tool for data compression in Linux systems.

After the Union health ministry dismissed reports of a data breach on the CoWIN platform, cyber security firm CloudSEK has said that threat actors do not have access to the entire portal nor the backend database. "Based on matching fields from Telegram data and previously reported incidents affecting health workers of a region, we assume the inform...

A massive data breach that has implications for national security was unearthed by Cyberabad Police here, who arrested seven people of a gang allegedly involved in the theft and sale of sensitive data of the government

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairperson Justice (Retd) Arun Kumar Mishra on Thursday called for a stringent law to deal with "unlawful Internet behaviour and cyber crimes." He was speaking after the inauguration of the 25th All India Forensic Science Conference at the National Forensic Sciences University in Gandhinagar.

The server of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences remained out of service for the eighth consecutive day on Wednesday. After the suspension of two analysts from Delhi more are on the radar for suspension for breaching cyber security, the sources said.

US-based technology industry body ITI, having global tech firms such as Google, Facebook, IBM and Cisco as its members, has sought a revision in the Indian government's directive on reporting of cyber security breach incidents.

India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has released two new rules for crypto, Cloud, and VPN players. These rules need firms to save people’s KYC data for five years, and report any security breach or threat within six hours of identifying. While CERT-In is looking to strengthen India’s cyber security, its new rule has stirred con...

Intelligence agencies have unearthed a cyber security breach by military officials which is suspected to be linked to espionage-related activities by a neighbouring country.

Punjab National Bank has denied claims made in a cyber security firm's report that the personal data of the bank's millions of customers was breached due to a loophole in its system.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has opened a probe into last year's SolarWinds cyber breach, focussing on whether some companies failed to disclose that they had been affected by the unprecedented hack, two persons familiar with the investigation said.

The US government is investigating a hack against federal agencies that began during the Trump administration but was only recently discovered, according to senior US officials and private sector cyber defenders.

India's cyber security agency CERT-In has advised Facebook users to strengthen their account privacy settings after a recent global 'data scraping' incident in the social media platform affected about 61 lakh Indians.

India's cyber security agency has cautioned WhatsApp users about certain vulnerabilities detected in the popular instant messaging app that could lead to breach of sensitive information.

IT services major Infosys said on Tuesday the potential risk in brand value of a data breach to the world's 100 most valuable brands could amount to as much as 223 billion dollars.