The state’s information technology hub is under attack from a dreaded malware that is locking out computers at will.
‘Ransomware’, the malicious software that seizes access to computers and laptops until a said amount is paid,
Writing 2,500 years ago, Sun Tzu declared in his military treatise The Art of War: “Supreme excellence consists of breaking enemy’s resistance without fighting”. It is a tribute to the Chinese military strategist’s genius that his dictum holds good even today after a couple of millennia, guiding nations, organisations and individuals in gaining control of…
Whilst the internet of things (IoT) has helped multinational companies to increase their revenues by an average of 15.6 per cent, according to a TCS study, it also has to face cyber attacks. HP Fortify on Demand has highlighted this vulnerability in its latest study on smartwatches. The TCS Global Trend study on IoT, which…
Indian companies are increasingly suffering huge losses due to rising cyber attacks that leads to interruption of business and loss of customer data. However, with only 100-150 policies covering cyber crime liability insurance being sold in the country, majority companies are inadequately protected against the growing menace, according to insurance companies. Financial sector that carries…
A security expert who recently demonstrated he could hack into a Jeep and control its most vital functions said the same could be done with hundreds of thousands of other vehicles on the road today. Security experts Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek collaborated with Wired magazine to demonstrate how they could remotely hack into and…
We hear a lot about cyber security these days, most of it bad. Cyber crime and associated cyber security breaches lead most of our technology coverage. Victims of these incidents may not even feel the ravages of the crime until it is far too late. They may already be economically dead, or at a minimum…
Republican and Democratic U.S. senators introduced legislation on Wednesday to give the Department of Homeland Security more authority to protect government Internet addresses, hoping to prevent more cyber attacks like recent massive breaches at the government’s hiring office. Katherine Archuleta, the chief of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), resigned earlier this month after the…
Fortifying Kent D Thomas explains why there is an urgent and dire need for more cyber security professionals in the age of digitisation. The age of digitisation and mobilisation is fast accelerating, and so is the fear of vulnerability to having personal and sensitive information being hacked. The changing trends in mobile usage, social media…
Cars will have to be much better protected against hacking and new privacy standards will govern data collected from vehicles under proposed legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. The Security and Privacy in Your Car Act of 2015 seeks to get a step ahead of what is seen by some as one of…
The most recent website to be attacked by hackers has been cheating website Ashley Madison. Hackers who go by the name, ‘The Impact Team’ claim that to have personal details of more than 37 million cheating spouses and have threatened to release nude photos and sexual fantasies of the site’s clients unless it is shut down. The…