Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report XVI reveals that a majority of malware samples observed in India spread through removable drives.
Apart from physical access to handsets, metadata and backups are two common ways in which private communications can be broken.
'.. if the cost is its own survival,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Hiranandnani's new venture is well-timed, but it will face heavy competition from both international majors and domestic peers like Adani Group.
India and Singapore on Tuesday elevated their ties to the 'strategic partnership' level and signed bilateral agreements for enhanced defence cooperation and in areas like cyber security, shipping and civil aviation.
A weak economy coupled with rising Covid-19 cases and inflation that is above RBI's comfort zone, geopolitical developments, and upcoming India Inc's second quarter results for FY21 could impact sentiment, analysts say.
The bombs to be procured are an advanced version of the Spice-2000 bomb, which can be used to reduce enemy buildings and bunkers to rubbles in no time.
Ramsomware, a kind of malicious software, is designed to block access to a computer until a certain sum of money is paid.
Three years and Rs 28,710 crore worth of transactions later, it has more than double the number of sellers than Flipkart.
The trick is to know how long you are supposed to hold which document, observes Bindisha Sarang.
India needs to follow countries such as Singapore who have and are further bolstering their cyber security apparatus.
In a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange, Satyam Computer said the last date by which letter of offer will be dispatched to the shareholders has been revised to June nine, from the earlier scheduled date of June three. Further, the last date of withdrawal by shareholders has also been revised to June 26, from the earlier June 27.
Other countries with a large number of cases including Brazil, Russia, Spain and the United States of America, all have more people heading to work.
Jio Platforms is expected to use its 388 million mobile phone subscribers as the cornerstone of an e-commerce and digital services business to rival Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart.
Nadella showcased improvements to Cortana and announced previews of new cloud services.
Ramalinga Raju's lawyer S Bharat Kumar told the media after his meeting with the Sebi officials that he had sought three day's time for Raju's appearance but they granted time only till tomorrow
Puri gave up the comforts of Citibank to set up a new-age bank from a rat-infested room in the Kamala Mills Compound in Worli, Mumbai and build a marquee brand. A look at his 26-year stint as HDFC Bank's boss.
Belying all expectations, the Trinamool Congress registreted a landslide victory in West Bengal assembly elections, overcoming the might of the Bharatiya Janata Party after a bitter campaign that had turned into a virtual duel between Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
'Apparently the entire biometric database's demographic data is available, which means that every Aadhaar signup is wide open to identity theft.' 'The commoditisation of the method -- selling the log-in for Rs 500 -- indicates that scammers have already harvested whatever they wanted,' points out Devangshu Datta.
To land a job in a competitive field, graduates must go beyond the obvious and prepare extensively, adbises Vijay Gupta, director-global human resources, Rahi Sytems, a global IT services and solutions company.
The government on Wednesday ordered Twitter to immediately take down handles and hashtags that suggested a farmer genocide was being planned, saying such misinformation and inflammatory content will incite passion, and impact public order.
The Securities Appellate Tribunal on Wednesday directed the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to allow PW cross-examination of former key executives of Satyam - former chairman Ramalinga Raju, former managing director Rama Raju, former chief financial officer (CFO) Vadlamani Srinivas and former vice-president (finance) G Ramakrishna.
Norton report says Indians putting themselves at risk over Wi-Fi usage
The Delhi high court on Tuesday sought the Centre's response on a plea challenging the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, which seeks to regulate digital news media.
A right-wing group on Thursday vandalised the office of Pakistan International Airlines in New Delhi prompting Islamabad to take up the issue with the ministry of external affairs.
If you are a wireless (read Wi-Fi) internet user, you could easily be the next victim of a terrorist who accesses your computer to send emails, which can get you into trouble with authorities as was the case with some users in Mumbai.
With India becoming the second-biggest victim of cyber-attacks after the United States, the government wants to install a foolproof security cover; but it could invade the privacy of Indians, says Ajai Shukla
The number is linked to social networking sites like WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram or Twitter. The verification code generated by these networking sites is received on the smartphone and the user is ready.
Do you know that hackers around the world are always on the prowl to enter your computer and filch personal data? But there are ways in which you can beat these hackers.
Axis Bank recently informed the Reserve Bank of India that it had experienced a cyber attack, while the State Bank of India said it was re-issuing over 600,000 debit cards because of a potential security breach.
Say technology is evolving so quickly it is hard for security experts to keep up.
A new breed of hackers has emerged, whose main aim is not necessarily financial gain but causing disruption
The Indian authorities feared that these apps were transferring consumer data to locations outside the country, especially China, in an unauthorised and surreptitious manner. With servers in India, the data of local consumers would be stored in the country.
As his father takes on the Naxals in Chhattisgarh, Sopan Khosla has scored his own victory.
Apple Inc has said it will issue a software update very soon to cut off the ability of spies and hackers to grab email and other sensitive data from Mac computers.
Dr Sethuraman 'Panch' Panchanathan, senior vice president, Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development, ArizonaStateUniversity, was last week appointed to the United States National Science Board by President Barack Obama.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Spokesperson said the hackers wanted to monitor the daily's coverage of China.
The US accounted for the biggest share of all malicious activity (30 per cent), while Israel had highest malicious activity per internet user. China, accounting had the highest number of Bot-infected computers.
Since payment alternatives such as UPI, e-wallets and USSD - based mobile banking through different platforms are directly or indirectly linked to the user's bank account one needs to be extra careful to keep hackers at bay, explains Adhil Shetty, CEO, BankBazaar.
