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India Should Indigenise Military Equipment to Stay Ahead in Cyber Warfare, Says Hooda

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Credits: NEWS 18

Not just data localisation, India should have its own operating systems, software, networking equipment and cryptographic algorithms to secure itself from present-day threats of cyber warfare, said Lt. General (retired) Deependra Singh Hooda, the architect of the 2016 surgical […]

By |April 8th, 2019|Cyber News|

Indian Railways’ first cyber crime cell to start in Pune

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Credits: TOI

The first cyber cell of the Indian Railways will open in Pune within a month. The cell will look after cybercrime and fraud cases related to the Railways, a senior Pune rail division official said.

“Investigations, including cyber fraud cases, will […]

By |April 8th, 2019|Cyber News|

Cyber crime group FIN6 now using Windows ransomware

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Credits: IT Wire

The FIN6 cyber crime group, that has in the past been involved in stealing payment card data, has allegedly expanded its activities to deploying Windows ransomware, the security firm FireEye claims.

A blog post authored by researchers Brendan McKeague, Van Ta, […]

By |April 8th, 2019|Cyber News|

Ongoing DNS Hijacking Campaign Targets Gmail, PayPal, Netflix Users

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Credits: Security Week

As part of the campaign, the attackers compromised consumer routers to modify their DNS settings and redirect users to rogue websites to steal their login credentials.

Bad Packets security researchers, who have been following the attacks since December, have identified […]

By |April 8th, 2019|Cyber News|

Blockchain, for Threat Intelligence Maybe?

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Credits: CPO Magazine

It is the need of the hour that the industries, economies and people are interconnected to each other. Both at the personal and commercial level, we are getting connected with multiple devices through computers, mobile phones, appliances, commercial equipment […]

By |April 8th, 2019|Cyber News|

Scare-bnb: Family finds creeper cams hidden in their weekend rental by scanning Wi-Fi

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Credits: The Register

A family staying at an Airbnb rental in Ireland made an unsettling discovery when they found their unit had a hidden camera livestreaming their stay.

The Barker Family of Auckland New Zealand were staying at a property in Cork as part of […]

By |April 7th, 2019|Cyber News|

FBI catches heat, HS kids catch a hacking rap, and Albany catches a ransomware infection

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Credits: The Register
NAS-ty hole spotted in iSCSI boxes
Another day, another massive data exposure from devices erroneously left wide open to the public internet.

This time, it’s a collection of some 13,500 iSCSI storage devices that were left open to be crawled by […]

By |April 7th, 2019|Cyber News|

Mystery of the Chinese woman who allegedly tried to sneak into Trump’s Mar-a-Lago with a USB stick of malware

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Credits: The Register

A Chinese woman was caught sneaking into President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago country club with a thumb drive of malware, it was claimed yesterday.

Yujing Zhang, 32, was collared after possibly trying to slip into a bash at the swanky resort promoted […]

By |April 7th, 2019|Cyber News|

Hey, what’s Mandarin for ‘WTF is going on?’ Nokia phones caught spewing device IDs to China, software blunder blamed

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An undisclosed number of Nokia 7 Plus smartphones have been caught sending their identification numbers to a domain owned by a Chinese telecom firm.

The handsets spaffed the data in clear text over the internet to a server behind the domain vnet.cn, […]

By |March 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Let’s spin Facebook’s Wheel of Misfortune! Clack-clack-clack… clack… You’ve won ‘100s of millions of passwords stored in plaintext’

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Credits: The Register

Facebook today admitted it stored “some” of its addicts’ account passwords in a plaintext readable format. For “some”, read hundreds of millions.

The antisocial network quietly made the mea culpa in a statement that followed its breathless announcement of the Oculus Rift […]

By |March 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|