The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) may extend the deadline to whitelist URLs (Uniform Resource Locators), APKs (Android Package Kit), or OTT (Over The Top) links - through which it intends to curb their misuse -is likely to be extended by 30 days as only over 3,000 registered senders (businesses) have complied, officials indicated. According to Trai officials, over 3,000 registered senders have whitelisted more than 70,000 links, but many more (thousands of others) are yet to comply with the directive as the mandatory norms are set to come into effect from October 1.
Literary adaptations, whistleblower pursuits, kidnapped Santas and South India's biggest stars, Sukanya Verma lists them all on OTT this week.
Deputy US Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen on Wednesday announced that three indictments have been unsealed in the matter that collectively charge five Chinese nationals with computer hacking and charge two Malaysian nationals with helping some of those hackers target victims and sell the fruits of their crime.
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Chinese state-sponsored hackers had targeted India's power grids in Ladakh possibly for information on India's critical infrastructure or to prepare for sabotage in the future, according to the American cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
While MTNL on Friday claimed that its website has been restored, some users complained that they were unable to access it.
The perpetrators appear to have used a well-known and highly preventable technique called SQL injection, which takes advantage of flawed database programming to activate malicious lines of code.
The website of Pakistan's Supreme Court was on Tuesday defaced by a hacker who asked the Chief Justice to ban all pornographic websites and do more to help the poor.
The advisory has asked government staffers to delete such an e-mail if received in their inbox.
'No significant impact' on Tokyo 2020 from possible cyber attacks
Honkers Union of China (HUC), the earliest and largest hacker group in the country which prevented numerous foreign attacks on Chinese websites, has announced its dissolution.
The Indian government is set to launch a counter offensive after it faced several attacks on its computer systems especially from the Chinese.
Experts reckon that the group, linked to terrorist outfit, stole DRDO scientists' profiles to look for potential candidates.
Ethical hackers are fast becoming a valued tribe in India. According to data from Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In), in November last year more than 800 ".in" websites and nearly 700 ".com" websites in India were defaced by miscreants.
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is in the midst of a major operation which is targeting hacking hubs across the country.
Some hackers are starting to specialise in data stolen from corporate networks, according to research compiled by security firm McAfee.
Some officials, despite repeated warnings, continue to browse the Internet and visit social networking sites from the very same computer in which classified information is stored, says Vicky Nanjappa
Hackers attempted to break into different websites of Andhra Pradesh Government departments on Monday even as a security audit was being conducted at the State Data Centre maintained by Wipro.
The task of the alliance is to prevent hacking attacks from foreign countries.
IS hackers have published a "hitlist" of over 70 US military personnel who have been involved in drone strikes against terror targets in Syria.
The growing complexity of E2Ws and the evolving threat landscape make it challenging to guarantee complete immunity from attacks.
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Electric two-wheeler (e2W) maker Ather Energy has submitted preliminary papers to the Securities and Exchange Board of India to raise funds through an initial public offering (IPO). According to the draft red herring prospectus (DRHP), the IPO will comprise a fresh issue of equity shares valued at Rs 3,100 crore, alongside an offer for sale of 22 million equity shares by its promoters and investor shareholders.
'Today it is a studio being held to ransom, tomorrow it will be a government, an entire nation. I don't see anyone laughing when that happens,' says Suparn Verma.
Indian and Pakistani hackers are engaged in a round of tit-for-tat defacing of government-run websites of the two countries, targeting such major organisations as India's oil and gas major Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and its Pakistani counterpart Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority.
No sensitive information is believed to have been accessed during the hacking which was detected during regular checks by the intelligence agencies, official sources said in New Delhi on Friday. Though the government does not have any specific idea about who the hackers were, the IP addresses left behind suggested the hand of Chinese.
In another blow to the Rupert Murdoch-owned News International, it has now been revealed that personal details of thousands of people who entered competitions on The Sun's website had been copied by one or more hackers. News International, which owns The Sun, made the revelation in an email sent out on Monday evening. The hacked details are reportedly being posted on a popular site among hackers for posting public messages anonymously.
Corporates, realtors, and even IPL fixing -- the tentacles of the hacking network, whose alleged member was nabbed by a agencies of India, US, Romania and China on Friday, run broader than anticipated, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
Danti is highly focused on diplomatic entities. It may already have full access to internal networks in Indian government organisations.
In a major embarrassment, the website of premier investigating agency CBI was hacked on Friday by programmers identifying themselves as "Pakistani CyberArmy".
About 7.12 million Internet-capable smart phones were infected with malicious programs in 2011 and the number has been increasing rapidly.
Anti-India elements in Pakistan are planning to attack Indian computer networks, intelligence agencies have warned. Pakistani hackers are trying out a dry run by hacking popular websites registered there, home ministry sources said on Tuesday. "Every time the relations between the two countries dampen, Pakistanis start attacking Indian computer networks and this has increased after the Mumbai terror attacks," a home ministry source said.
Unclassified White House computer networks were breached by hackers recently resulting in temporary disruptions to some services with the Russian government thought to be behind the intrusion, according to a media report.
The Financial Times quoted senior officials as saying that Chinese hackers had penetrated the White House computer network on multiple occasions and obtained e-mails between government officials. They, however, conceded that it was extremely difficult to trace the exact source of an attack beyond a server in a particular country, the Times said.
The State Bank of India, the country's largest bank, has had to shut down its corporate website after overseas hackers tried to break in.
"Right now financial institutions are actively under attack. We know that," the Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, said on Wednesday responding to a question at The Washington Post Live 2012 Cyber security Summit in Washington.
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The government said on Thursday that it had warned the defence services, financial institutions, public sector units, Internet service providers and prominent private sector organisations of a possible cyber attack by Pakistani hacker groups.
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