February 12th, 2020Cybercrime is one of the big threats to modern-day business, which is why endpoint security has become a priority for all companies.
August 15th, 2017USB connections - the most common interface used globally to connect external devices to computers - are vulnerable to information leakage, making them even less secure than thought, a study has found.
Researchers from University of Adelaide in Australia tested more than 50 different computers and external USB hubs and found that over...
June 11th, 2017News and sports websites have some of the lowest levels of security adoption, making them vulnerable to cyber attacks, a new study has found.
Researchers looked at the security protocols used by the top 500 sites in various industries and online sectors.
They found that fewer than 10 per cent of news and sports websites used basic...
April 20th, 2017The government is working on exclusive framework on data protection to strengthen privacy provisions and check misuse of personal information, a top official said.
IT Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said that the government has "already taken cognisance of the fact that data is being put out indiscriminately in certain cases".
She...
March 2nd, 2017According to a 2016 survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, organizations rank cybercrime as the second most reported type of economic crime, up from fourth place. (It’s worth noting that most cybercrimes go unreported.)
Rarely a week goes by without news of another data breach at another corporation. And cyber thieves are...
September 24th, 2016AFP- Yahoo's claim that it is the victim of a gigantic state-sponsored hack raises the question of whether it is the latest target for hackers with the backing of Russia, China or even North Korea, experts say.
The US internet giant was under pressure Friday to explain how it sustained such a massive breach in 2014, which possibly...
May 5th, 2016Maharashtra Police has informed the Indian Railways about the suspected hacking and theft of data from the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) website.
The IRCTC is India's biggest travel e-commerce website, where lakh of transactions are conducted every day. The website has lots of sensitive information such as...
