Picture this: You’re getting daily video messages from George Clooney himself – charming, warm, and oh-so-convincing. That’s what one woman in Argentina thought when she connected with “Clooney” on Facebook. For six weeks, she interacted with him, believing it is the Hollywood star, amused by his warm, lifelike videos. Then, one day, came the pitch: […]
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Cryptocurrency has been flagged as a new frontier for cyber threats in a new report drafted with inputs from Indian nodal agencies such as the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and Computer Security Incident Response Team in the Finance sector (CSIRT-Fin). “Cryptocurrency has significantly altered the cyber threat landscape, empowering intruders in ways that […]
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The customs department mandating airlines to share personal details of international flyers, the Civil Aviation Ministry’s facial recognition system DigiYatra, the MeitY’s proposal to share non-personal data collected by the government with start-ups and researchers, CERT-In’s mandate asking virtual private network (VPN) service providers to store data of their users: these are among a rising […]
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The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) revealed details about the vulnerabilities on Monday The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) revealed details about the vulnerabilities on Monday Vulnerabilities in Linux and Unix can be exploited to execute arbitrary code while the critical vulnerability in Realtek could be affecting networking devices, revealed the Indian Computer Emergency […]
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The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) has alerted about multiple high-severity vulnerabilities affecting various versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS and ChromeOS. It should be noted that Apple and Google have rolled out updates already for these flaws, and are required to alert Cert-In. The updates from Apple, Google typically mention which security flaws have […]
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The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has given Virtual Private Network (VPN) providers and cloud service operators an extension of three months to comply with its newly drafted VPN rules. This comes as VPN providers such as SurfShark, NordVPN, and ExpressVPN removed their India servers citing a threat to the anonymity and privacy of […]
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India has become a hub for cyber-attacks, ranking as the sixth most breached country since the first recorded digital attacks in 2004, revealed a new report by cybersecurity company Surfshark. To put in perspective, 18 out of every 100 Indians had their personal contact details breached. “In a country which has lost over 962.7 million […]
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VPN services such as ExpressVPN and SurfShark have announced shutting down India servers. This comes in the aftermath of the recent cybersecurity rules introduced by the country’s cyber security agency CERT-In. The guidelines require VPN providers to store user data for a period of five years. VPN services are essentially used to maintain a layer of […]
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