Cyber Attacks

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Cybercrimes in fact, have spiked during the 2020 pandemic, with the National Security Advisor reporting a rise of ~500% in cases.

From fintech, ecommerce and education technology applications to the more sensitive health technology solutions are increasingly falling prey to cyber-crimes

According to a recent report, though India is at the forefront in adopting cloud technology, 53 per cent of Indian enterprises fail to identify cybersecurity risk to systems, people, assets, and others

Data security is now an aspect of India's digital movement that warrants attention and action

The direct costs from cybersecurity breaches are growing exponentially, and companies-even small ones-are feeling the need to invest in new systems

Companies can look at setting up special advisory committee or crisis management team comprising of executive and board members aligned with the Information Technology Amendment Act, 2008

As countries across the world are fighting to contain the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), cyber threats seem to have taken this as an opportunity to use potential vulnerabilities and the widespread panic to further their malicious intent.

Google admitted that it accidentally shared personal videos of some of its Google Photo users with strangers

Google's browser Chrome will now warn the users if their username and password have been compromised in a data breach on some site or app

This is a significant drop from 99 hacks recorded in 2016, 172 in 2017, and 110 in 2018.

CERT-In has alerted users about a new vulnerability where hackers can attack the messaging platform using MP4 files

RBI has told Supreme court that WhatsApp is not compliant with data localisation norms and has directed NPCI to stop full-scale launch of WhatsApp Pay in India

The Indian government will discuss risks of allowing social media companies to offer online payment services with RBI and NPCI

Indian government has asked WhatsApp to explain how the spyware Pegasus was used to spy on Indian users by November 4

In the light of the now infamous Tumblr adult content ban episode, the risk of compromise and misuse of digital media becomes all the more important

Whether it is Network Security, behavioral analytics, vulnerability management or phishing detection, AI and machine learning tools are indispensable while dealing with cyber security.

Perceived notions of 'high-cost investment', ignorance and a mindset 'who would target us' makes the SMBs, a hacker's goldmine. This perspective needs a re-set

Through monitoring, software professionals can verify security and compliance requirements regardless of whether data is stored locally, in a database, in a virtual environment or in the cloud

When companies start operating online, the aforementioned issues begin looming over them and thus, enable companies to take precautions