The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday declared that all data related to payments must be stored in India and all data related to transactions processed abroad will have to be brought back to the country within 24 hours. Data stored in India should include end-to-end transaction details and info about payment transactions. RBI stated “For […]
How safe is your organization? Data breaches are happening more often than ever exposing all the highly sensitive personal information. A recent study claims that there is a new victim of identity theft every 2 seconds. Following are some top notch data breaches of this year so far: The Citrix Breach The cloud computing giant, Citrix data […]
Whatsapp has announced that it will take legal action against individual and companies sending bulk messages in violation to its terms and conditions. These days Whatsapp is highly being exploited in circulating fake news and false informationg creating a havoc among the populace. For these reasons the company has been under fire from the Indian […]
On an average 75 % of the bulk emails reach the Inbox of the intended recipient, according to an Email Intelligence Report. The remaining 25% of emails are filtered or blocked by mailbox providers and filtering software due to a variety of factors including sender’s IP reputation, email volume, email content, authentication, sender compliance, and […]
Social engineering is an attack vector that relies heavily on human interaction and often involves manipulating people into breaking normal security procedures and best practices in order to gain access to systems, networks or physical locations, or for financial gain. Threat actors use social engineering techniques to conceal their true identities and motives and present […]
Last month, 2 major data breaches took place showing how companies are lagging behind in fulfilling the attack vectors. Its high time for companies to take cyber security seriously and act over it. Stack Overflow, a knowledge-sharing platform for more than 100 million developers, reported a data breach last month. Another big data breach occured […]
An advertising company in Andheri was cheated of Rs.12 Lakh in a ‘man-in-the-middle’ attack. A man-in-the-middle attack allows a malicious actor to intercept, send and receive data meant for someone else, or not meant to be sent at all, without either outside party knowing until it is too late. Similar scenario happened in this case. The […]
Microsoft Office 365 has become the most widely used e-mail service in the market. Being the most popular and most used, it is also most abused by the hackers for stealing private data and enterprise information via phishing attacks. Based on a recent study conducted by ESG on behalf of Cisco, more than 80 percent of […]
India is a country with the second-largest number of account take-over logins – close to 1.38 lakh login’s per hour in 2018 cited by ‘Credential Stuffing: Attacks and Economies’, a 2018 Akamai report. An Account Take Over (ATO) occurs when a stolen login and password combination is used to access multiple accounts using bots. Remember […]
The websites of Telangana State Southern Power Distribution Company Ltd (TSSPDCL) and its AP counterpart encountered a ransomware attack a couple of days ago, disrupting web services, including online payments. A staff member of TSSPDCL received an email from an unknown person and the staff inadvertently click on it causing the virus attack to take […]
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