Tag: hacking
Indian court puts right to privacy as fundamental
Addressing the privacy of billions of citizens, the Supreme Court of India has made a landmark judgement stating that Right of Privacy is a...
Black Sea incident: New frontier in cyberwarfare
Reports have emerged stating that Russia might be testing systems that can interfere with Global Positioning System (GPS) signals by overriding them with fake...
To fight underrepresentation, scholarships for women galore Hacker Halted
EC-Council and IBM announced a scholarship program for women to attend EC-Council’s Hacker Halted security conference free of charge. Funded by IBM Security, the scholarship is...
Russia behind February malware attack, says Italian foreign ministry
The Italian foreign ministry recently confirmed Russia’s involvement in the hacking attack on government’s field offices in February. The ministry said that the malware...
Cybercriminals using Steganography in their attacks: Researchers
Steganography, an ancient practice of hiding secret content and text messages inside non-suspicious messages, is being increasingly used by cybercriminals to attack the businesses...
HBO targeted in major security breach
In a major cyber breach, hackers have reportedly broken into the American television network HBO and subsequently leaked the forthcoming episodes and scripts of popular...
More than 2.5 million people encountered ransomware in last 12 months:...
The European police and Kaspersky Lab conducted a study that reported, “Ransomware has soared since 2012, with criminals lured by the promise of profit...
Victims lost more than $25 million to ransomware in last two...
A recent study by researchers at Google, Chainalysis, UC San Diego, and the NYU Tandom School of Engineering has revealed that the victims of...
Botched data backup in Sweden
In a massive botched data transfer, Sweden’s Transport Agency sent information about every vehicle in the country to marketers. The agency believed it was...
Director of NSA Rejects Joint U.S.-Russian Cybersecurity Unit
The director of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has publicly stated his objection to any cooperative U.S.-Russian cybersecurity unit. It has been reported...
