Defence Minister AK Antony on Monday asked the top brass of the Armed Forces to work in unison and make cyber systems as secure and as non-porous as possible, adding that cyber-warfare is becoming a serious threat to security.
Generally, most users tend to underestimate the danger which malware poses for their devices and data.
Obscenity, cheating and sexual exploitation are India's leading cyber crimes, reports Chaitanya Mallapur.
An official said the SIT will examine if the money was used on any illegal activities, like terrorism or forcible religious conversion.
In what can be seen as a rare occasion, the Situation Room -- which is mainly used to discuss national security issues -- was opened to corporate CEOs, indicating the importance given to the issue by Obama.
The training was in technical and practical aspects of dealing with cyber crime and cyber terrorism in the programme.\n
India has to step up on its cyber offensive to match Chinese and Pakistani hackers breaching the Indian cyber networks, says Ankit Fadia, the man who made his name as India's youngest and first certified ethical hacker.
Smaller cities in India run the risk of a cyber attack when compared to the bigger ones. A report released by Symantec Corp reveals that smaller and emerging cities such as Bhubaneshwar, Surat, Cochin, Jaipur, Vishakhapatnam and Indoreare increasingly facing the risk of cyber attacks, with 25 per cent of bot- infections in India reported in such cities.
India has told the United Nations that governance of cyber space should be democratic and transparent and cannot be managed as a "private property".
Combating cyber attacks successfully is serious business.
Hackers use their best schemes during holidays to steal people's money, credit card or net-banking information.
With a conviction rate of 0.5 per cent, the cyber crime cells in India paint a poor picture.
IT industry body Nasscom has asked the government to set up special or fast track courts for early conviction in cyber crimes matters.
The Indian cyber security agency has issued a warning against 'Royal ransomware' virus that attacks critical sectors like communications, healthcare, education and even individuals and seeks pay-off in Bitcoins for not leaking personal data in the public domain.
The Delhi police on Sunday conducted searches in cyber cafes and hotels in central Delhi's Paharganj area where suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Coleman Headley stayed during his three-day trip here in March this year.
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According to Websense's cybersecurity predictions for 2015, as mobile apps are using auto-login capability these devices will face more attacks from cyber criminals for more credential-stealing or authentication attacks that can be used at a later date.
The state of Jammu and Kashmir will soon have three cyber police stations, according to Director General of Police Kuldeep Khoda.
Warning that terrorists were increasingly using hi-tech methods to transfer money across borders, Deputy National Security Advisor Vijay Nambiar on Monday said the government was creating a 'robust legal environment' to fight cyber crime.
At least 70 per cent of security breaches occur because of poorly written code with zero thought for security.
Volunteers have been asked to provide details of their core competencies for future projects, says Mayank Mishra
Samsung India Electronics Ltd, one of the leading companies in the field of digital technology, has brought the year's eagerly awaited cyber olympics called the World Cyber Games to Mumbai.\n
Wipro said it has used its industry-leading cybersecurity practices and partner ecosystem for remedial steps and has shared this intelligence with its partners to develop the AntiVirus signatures.
With the widespread use of new technologies, inter-connectedness and dependency, newer risks, threats and vulnerabilities have emerged.
Britain's National Cyber Security Centre, leading the international investigation, believes that a hacking group known as Lazarus launched the attack.
Leading Internet firm rediff.com India has won a cyber-squatting case against a Latin American entity for unauthorised use of a "confusingly similar" domain name.
India may have security concerns on its mind as it prepares to roll out its own version of an Internet spying programme. But activists are concerned about its misuse. Vicky Nanjappa reports
The decision was taken at a meeting held in New Delhi on January 24, attended by directors of the four existing IIITs of the country and HRD officials.
'As long as businesses do not consider cyber recovery an integral part of their enterprise IT, they remain greatly vulnerable.'
Even as the debate on the use of MMS and camera phone sparked off by a public school case continues to generate heat, legal experts say that India still lacks cyber laws to deal with legal and moral issues arising out of the misuse of technology by p
The Madhya Pradesh Congress filed a police complaint on Sunday, claiming that a fake letter was made viral on social media to create the impression that its senior leader Digvijaya Singh resigned after the party released the first list of its candidates for the upcoming assembly polls.
Sensitive data on government computers had been targeted, along with defence, technology and engineering firms' designs.
Based in California and having a strong presence in Bangalore, Narus is a leading provider of real-time network traffic and analytics software used to protect against cyber attacks and persistent threats aimed at large Internet Protocol networks.
A national cyber crime and coordination centre meant to fend off such attacks is still awaiting approval
The cyber attack affected the internet-connected televisions at the media centres and also shut down the official Winter Olympics website for around 20 minutes.
"Cyber security and REEs greatly affect both the national and economic security of the United States, and I continue to be concerned about China's policies regarding these two strategic interests," New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said in a letter to Obama.
Pawan Kumar Soni, a 55-year-old farmer based in Sri Ganganagar City in Rajasthan, became a victim of a cyber fraud when his 26-year-old son Harsh Vardhan opened a link from a phishing message that flashed on his mobile phone.
Cyber attacks have become a major worry for India, as it has been repeatedly targeted by countries like Pakistan and China, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
India saw a huge surge in ransomware and IoT cyber attacks in the first half of 2023, as criminals shifted to stealthier means of malicious activities, according to a report by SonicWall. While major economies like the US and the UK witnessed a decline in ransomware attacks, India (up 133 per cent) and Germany (52 per cent) are among the countries that saw a huge surge in such attacks, the 2023 SonicWall Mid-Year Cyber Threat Report for the January-June period stated. At the global level, a variety of other attacks have trended up, including cryptojacking (399 per cent), IoT malware (37 per cent) and encrypted threats (22 per cent), the report said.
The global study covered 17 countries.
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