Quad nations launch ‘Quad Cyber Challenge’ to improve cybersecurity   Quad nations launch ‘Quad Cyber Challenge’ to improve cyber security The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or Quad comprising India, United States, Japan and Australia on Wednesday launched a public campaign ‘Quad Cyber Challenge’ to improve cyber security across their nations. The Quad has invited Internet users across the Indo-Pacific and beyond ...

Euronext delays commodities report in wake of ION cyberattack   FILE PHOTO: The logo of stock market operator Euronext is seen on Euronext headquarters at La Defense business and financial district in Courbevoie near Paris, France, November 21, 2019. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo Exchange operator Euronext has postponed until further notice a weekly report on positions held in its commodity derivatives, ...

PIL in Delhi HC to invoke IT Act provisions in FIRs for cyber crime   Delhi High Court and Supreme Court of India. New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday heard a public interest litigation seeking directions to the police to issue mandatory guidelines to invoke relevant provisions of the Information Technology Act whenever a complaint is made for ...

1 Indian firm paying Rs 8.2 cr for email-driven cyber attack   Indian organisations are among the most likely to be hit with a successful email attack, and those affected faced an average potential cost of over $1 million (approx Rs 8.2 crore) for their most expensive attack, a new report said on Thursday. About 82 percent of the Indian ...

BharatPe refutes Ashneer’s claim that 150 mn users’ data breached Fintech platform BharatPe on Thursday termed the allegations levelled by its former Managing Director and Co-founder Ashneer Grover about data leak at the company as “malicious and completely baseless”. Grover had earlier alleged that there is a breach of data of over 150 million UPI users at BharatPe by its ...

Girish Raghavan, GE HealthCare on key ways to strengthen cyber resilience in healthcare sector By Girish Raghavan, We live in times when complexity is the new normal. The healthcare sector, particularly, has survived the most complexities in the last few years. The pandemic demanded more, and the reliance on digital shifted gears overnight. Now, simple as it is, cyber is ...

Navi Mumbai: No cyber fraud info in annual crime data NAVI MUMBAI: The annual crime conference of the Navi Mumbai police does not provide any data on online frauds / cybercrimes. The data pertaining to the cyber crime fraud cases registered, amount lost in these frauds and recovered amount could not be made available to the media. The data in ...

India’s PokerBaazi suffers security lapse, users’ data exposed: Researcher   PokerBaazi launches GOAT, daily qualifiers from Oct 1. New Delhi, PokerBaazi, India’s biggest online poker platform, suffered a significant security lapse after an internal database containing sensitive user information was left exposed online for more than 2 months, a cybersecurity researcher has claimed. Security researcher Anurag Sen told portal XposedOrNot ...

Hackers create Chat GPT-driven Telegram bots that can write malware   Cybercriminals are using Microsoft-owned ChatGPT to create Telegram bots that can write malware and steal your data, new research has revealed. Currently, if you ask ChatGPT to write a phishing email impersonating a bank or create malware, it will not generate it. However, hackers are working their way around ...

Cybersecurity professionals in high demand despite hiring freeze Demand for cybersecurity and privacy professionals hasn’t dropped as much as that in other job functions, according to experts, as some segments of tech hiring start showing signs of slowing down. There are currently 18,000 active cybersecurity-related job openings in India, according to estimates, even as availability of skilled people in this ...