Monthly Archives: January 2019

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German cyber officials defend handling of mass data attack

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Credits: BBC

The agency says it was not aware of the full extent of a systematic leak of information until Thursday night.

Journalists, celebrities and politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, are among those whose personal data was published online.

It is unclear who was […]

By |January 8th, 2019|Cyber News|

One of the West’s biggest cybersecurity vulnerabilities is our idiotic habit of sending servers full of sensitive information to foreign countries

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Credits: businessinsider

Western companies routinely abandon confidential, sensitive, and personally identifying information to private companies in foreign countries when they upgrade their servers, workstations, and networking gear for new hardware, a source tells Business Insider.

The unprotected data is a goldmine for hackers.

The source, […]

By |January 7th, 2019|Cyber News|

IIT Kanpur and NSE join hands to work on cyber security solutions

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Credits: TechBit

The National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. (NSE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IIT Kanpur to work together on industry-leading Cyber Security solutions and practices.

The NSE-IIT Kanpur partnership aims to develop and create an environment to not […]

By |January 7th, 2019|Cyber News|

Marriott discloses extent of cyber attack

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Credits: newtimes

Marriott International Inc have said that fewer than 383 million customer records were stolen in a massive cyber attack disclosed last month, down from its initial estimate that up to 500 million guests were affected.

The hotel operator also said that some 25.55 […]

By |January 7th, 2019|Cyber News|

Ahmedabad: 48 police stations to have cyber cell facility

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Credits: DNA

While the police personnel have time and again stated that the cyber crime offences are increasing, the Ahmedabad police department is taking proactive steps to tackle it. In a recent decision taken by Ahmedabad police, the complainants — who usually […]

By |January 7th, 2019|Cyber News|

Inside Whatsapp groups with child sex abuse content: What a cyber specialist found

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Credits: newsminute

Two weeks ago, Tech Crunch published an article on how two Israeli NGOs had found third-party apps that were allowing people to find and join WhatsApp groups sharing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and enabling commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEoC). As a […]

By |January 7th, 2019|Cyber News|

NSA to release a free reverse engineering tool

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Credits: ZDNET

The US National Security Agency will release a free reverse engineering tool at the upcoming RSA security conference that will be held at the start of March, in San Francisco.

The software’s name is GHIDRA and in technical terms, is a […]

By |January 7th, 2019|Cyber News|

In Screening for Suicide Risk, Facebook Takes On Tricky Public Health Role

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Credits: NYTimes

A police officer on the late shift in an Ohio town recently received an unusual call from Facebook.

Earlier that day, a local woman wrote a Facebook post saying she was walking home and intended to kill herself when she got […]

By |January 1st, 2019|Cyber News|

Pool of cyber experts to help decode new-age crimes in Odish

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Credits: TOI

The Odisha police have decided to create a pool of cyber expert and establish a cyber laboratory-cum-training center to effectively deal with the IT-related offenses. The dedicated cyber police officers will assist police in other districts to crack cybercrimes. At present, […]

By |January 1st, 2019|Cyber News|

Probe panel submits SingHealth cyber-attack report

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Credits: ABC News

An exhaustive report that details the events leading up to the cyber attack on SingHealth’s patient database – the most serious data breach in Singapore’s history – has been submitted to Minister-in-charge of Cybersecurity S. Iswaran.

The report sums up […]

By |January 1st, 2019|Cyber News|