The United States State Department said it is aware of these reports.
Are hacker collectives like Anonymous and Legion black hats or white hats, or do they lurk in the space between the two? Dhruv Munjal reports.
The alarming rate at which crucial government websites are being hacked, mostly from Pakistan and China, has posed a very serious question regarding our internal security, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
'The absence of cyber security framework for ATMs is like a dream come true for hackers.'
In a landmark judgment, a federal jury in the US has indicted three Indians - two from Chennai and one settled in Malaysia - for hacking online accounts of brokerage firms and siphoning off millions of dollars.
Aviation is a juicy target. It's a 24x7 industry, which cannot afford delays or loss of customer credibility.
'The major worry for everyone using Internet-linked devices today is whether the latest download on his smartphone or laptop is a bait from a digital hacker who is out to secure access to his hard-earned money,' notes T A Ramalingam, chief technical officer, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance.
They also siphon money through 'work@home' schemes.
Reports suggest this lot could fetch the cybercriminal as much as $130 million upon sale.
Hacked has plenty of highs for Hina Khan fans but apart from that, there's not much to look for in the film, says Moumita Bhattacharjee.
The lawyer attached a digital forensic report from a Massachusetts-based forensic firm Arsenal Digital which mentioned that a hacker hacked Rona Wilson's laptop and planted 10 letters right before Wilson's arrest.
Indian banks saw their losses nearly double to Rs 12.6 crore.
Unique Identification Authority of India said the alleged data breach took place on a website that does not belong to it.
Maninder Singh, the talented left-arm spinner, was taken to cleaners with utter disdain, but he never faced public wrath.
Even as India's internet base continues to widen, with the country set to have over 900 internet users by 2025, a parallel rise in cyber threats has become a matter of huge concern. Experts say that the sudden surge in digital adoption left little time to develop a cybersecurity backbone for the country. This has put large amounts of data at risk.
A report has alleged that personal data of 500 million users of LinkedIn has been put on sale, a charge that the professional networking platform has denied, saying no private member account data was impacted. The report by CyberNews claimed that an archive containing data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles has been put for sale on a popular hacker forum, with another 2 million records leaked as a proof-of-concept sample by the post author. This included full names, email addresses, phone numbers and workplace information, among other data, it said. The report, however, did not specify the impact on users in India.
While this trend will continue thanks to the number of IT professionals working for the SIMI under the guise of the Indian Mujahideen, it is now upon each one of us to ensure that we take utmost care while using the internet.
The cell was formed after attacks on the Bangladesh central bank by international hacker groups siphoned off millions of dollars.
Do not click on any pop-ups, links in messages or notification balloons if you are off the corporate VPN, warns Niranjankumar Laxman Upadhye.
The All India Football Federation's (AIFF) website on Tuesday was hacked by an anonymous group called 'Zero Cool'.
By the time the security failure is discovered and fixed, the damage is already done. A CIO survey by Forcepoint and Frost & Sullivan found that 69 per cent of Indian organisations were at risk of data breach. Whenever there is data breach, there is a potential disaster waiting to happen.
Hackers may be able to exploit Google Glass' 'root capability', which is enabled by attaching it to a desktop computer and running some commands, allowing them to access the user's information, the Guardian reports.
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.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) records leaked by hackers raised a lot of questions with healthy athletes seemingly taking banned substances, TASS news agency reported.
West Ham United's Michail Antonio has come to the defence of teammate Kurt Zouma, who has been targeted by fans for abusing his cats.
A hacker broke into the Bush family email accounts and accessed all their private family photographs along with their private emails.
While the virus out there meddling big-time with our lives, danger is lurking in our email boxes too.
'Malicious files can silently sit in your phone and relay data to hackers without your knowledge.'
Security breach came days after the firm got approval to conduct trials for Covid-19 vaccine candidate Sputnik V.
Twitter accounts of leading industrialist Ratan Tata and Trai chairman R S Sharma were also hacked
The British Broadcasting Corporation, the world's largest and oldest broadcaster, reportedly fell victim to a hacker who tried to sell access to the system over Christmas.
The National Green Tribunal's website on Monday came under cyber attack with a grouping hacking it and posting profanities, claiming it was an act of "revenge" against Indian army's surgical strikes across the Line of Control.
'They (the ransomware attackers) are not after any VVIP data.' 'Had that been the case, they would have quietly installed a different malware.'
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of HDFC Bank, Sameer J Ratolikar, will answer all your queries about secure banking in an online chat with readers on April 27, between 2 pm and 3 pm.
Oath, the rebranded Yahoo, did not specify what information was at risk for the users, but said that hackers did not steal passwords, credit card numbers or bank account information.
The case which was registered in 2015, pertains to a criminal conspiracy hatched by ISIS to establish its base in India by recruiting Muslim youth for ISIS through different social media platforms, the NIA stated.
The hacking group say they will release information on those who help mask the rich.
"We do not have any tight (military) relations with Pakistan," Putin said.
Like software-as-a-service (SaaS), CaaS has emerged as a well-orchestrated ecosystem for cybercriminals.
Located in a small township in the eastern part of Bengaluru is IBM's new Security Command Centre, which is surrounded by offices of multinational tech companies. This unit is the centrepiece of IBM's multi-million dollar investment to help businesses prepare for the growing threat of cyberattacks across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. This facility is the first of its kind in the region. It helps train in cybersecurity response techniques through highly realistic and simulated cyberattacks.
