Cybersecurity Issues

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued an advisory regarding multiple vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft’s Windows operating systems. Two separate vulnerabilities were found in various builds of Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server, the company’s platform for running network-based applications. The cybersecurity...

CrowdStrike, the US-based cybersecurity firm, caused a global outage on July 19 after an update resulted in Windows laptops and desktops crashing and getting stuck in the boot loop. After fixing the issue, the company published a post-incident report highlighting that its artificial intelligence (AI) system dubbed Falcon sensor caused an error. Now...

Airline systems across airports, which were impacted due to a global IT outage on Friday, have started working normally, and all issues are likely to be resolved by noon on Saturday, Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu said. The ministry is constantly monitoring the operations at airports and airlines to ensure travel readjustments and refunds...

CrowdStrike on Friday announced that it has deployed a fix for an issue that caused a global tech outage impacting airlines, banking, healthcare sectors, while cybersecurity company's CEO apologised for the incident on Friday. Meanwhile, Microsoft also resolved the underlying cause for the outage of its 365 apps and services, as systems continue to...

US cybersecurity agency CISA has issued a warning that hackers are trying to take advantage of Microsoft outage for phishing and other malicious activity.

CrowdStrike, the Texas-based cybersecurity company, caused one of the biggest global outages in recent times when it led to the disruption of several Microsoft services following an update to one of its products on Friday. As the curtain draws to a close on a certainly eventful day, here are 5 things to know about the Microsoft global outage.

A cyber outage related to an issue at global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike and Microsoft hit media, retailers, banks, airlines and telecoms companies across Australia and New Zealand on Friday.

Bharti Airtel has issued a statement refuting the claims of data breach on its servers. The telecom operator said that it did not find any evidence of a breach after a thorough investigation. It further claimed that the allegation by the threat actor was a “desperate” attempt to tarnish the brand’s reputation. Earlier, multiple reports claime...

CERT-In has issued a security advisory that warns users of security flaws affecting smartphones running on recent versions of Android. Google and Samsung have issued security patches for multiple several vulnerabilities that affect recent Android versions, and the cybersecurity agency has asked users to update their smartphones to the latest securi...

Tech experts have issued a warning for smartphone users to delete some "dangerous" financial apps from their phones as they have been found to be infected with malware.

The government's cybersecurity agency CERT-In has started its investigation into the issue of the Apple threat notification received by several opposition MPs, and a notice has been sent to the company, IT Secretary S Krishnan said on Thursday.

CERT-In recently warned users to update their iPhone and iPad models to the latest version of iOS to remain safe from noteworthy security flaws. The nodal security agency tasked with handling cybersecurity threats in the country issued a vulnerability note that warns of security flaws affecting some models running on iOS 16 or iPadOS 16. Users can...

China's cyberspace regulator said on Tuesday it has issued draft rules to oversee the security management of facial recognition technology in the country. It said facial

US computing giant Microsoft said Friday that it had identified Iranian state actors as those behind the recent cyberattack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Clint Watts, the general manager of Microsoft's Digital Threat Analysis Center, said that the hackers, who called themselves "Holy Souls," were Iranian cybersecurity firm Emennet Pa...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said the bank failed to implement systems to detect unusual and unauthorised, internal or external activities in its database.

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued an advisory regarding multiple vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft’s Windows operating systems. Two separate vulnerabilities were found in various builds of Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server, the company’s platform for running network-based applications. The cybersecurity...

CrowdStrike, the US-based cybersecurity firm, caused a global outage on July 19 after an update resulted in Windows laptops and desktops crashing and getting stuck in the boot loop. After fixing the issue, the company published a post-incident report highlighting that its artificial intelligence (AI) system dubbed Falcon sensor caused an error. Now...

Airline systems across airports, which were impacted due to a global IT outage on Friday, have started working normally, and all issues are likely to be resolved by noon on Saturday, Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu said. The ministry is constantly monitoring the operations at airports and airlines to ensure travel readjustments and refunds...

CrowdStrike on Friday announced that it has deployed a fix for an issue that caused a global tech outage impacting airlines, banking, healthcare sectors, while cybersecurity company's CEO apologised for the incident on Friday. Meanwhile, Microsoft also resolved the underlying cause for the outage of its 365 apps and services, as systems continue to...

US cybersecurity agency CISA has issued a warning that hackers are trying to take advantage of Microsoft outage for phishing and other malicious activity.

CrowdStrike, the Texas-based cybersecurity company, caused one of the biggest global outages in recent times when it led to the disruption of several Microsoft services following an update to one of its products on Friday. As the curtain draws to a close on a certainly eventful day, here are 5 things to know about the Microsoft global outage.

A cyber outage related to an issue at global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike and Microsoft hit media, retailers, banks, airlines and telecoms companies across Australia and New Zealand on Friday.

Bharti Airtel has issued a statement refuting the claims of data breach on its servers. The telecom operator said that it did not find any evidence of a breach after a thorough investigation. It further claimed that the allegation by the threat actor was a “desperate” attempt to tarnish the brand’s reputation. Earlier, multiple reports claime...

CERT-In has issued a security advisory that warns users of security flaws affecting smartphones running on recent versions of Android. Google and Samsung have issued security patches for multiple several vulnerabilities that affect recent Android versions, and the cybersecurity agency has asked users to update their smartphones to the latest securi...

Tech experts have issued a warning for smartphone users to delete some "dangerous" financial apps from their phones as they have been found to be infected with malware.

The government's cybersecurity agency CERT-In has started its investigation into the issue of the Apple threat notification received by several opposition MPs, and a notice has been sent to the company, IT Secretary S Krishnan said on Thursday.

CERT-In recently warned users to update their iPhone and iPad models to the latest version of iOS to remain safe from noteworthy security flaws. The nodal security agency tasked with handling cybersecurity threats in the country issued a vulnerability note that warns of security flaws affecting some models running on iOS 16 or iPadOS 16. Users can...

China's cyberspace regulator said on Tuesday it has issued draft rules to oversee the security management of facial recognition technology in the country. It said facial

US computing giant Microsoft said Friday that it had identified Iranian state actors as those behind the recent cyberattack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Clint Watts, the general manager of Microsoft's Digital Threat Analysis Center, said that the hackers, who called themselves "Holy Souls," were Iranian cybersecurity firm Emennet Pa...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said the bank failed to implement systems to detect unusual and unauthorised, internal or external activities in its database.