Last week, Flipkart’s finance chief got an email from an account that looked similar to that of cofounder Binny Bansal, with an instruction to transfer $80,000 to a bank account. Flipkart said it was a spoof – where the email originates from an outside source with a falsified name and address and that its email…
After a brief lull, the cyber crime branch has once again registered a substantial rise in the number of cases since the beginning of the year. The special unit registered over 45 cases while it has received about 279 complaints since January 1. The year 2015 was relatively calmer with 117 FIRs registered under the…
The recent case of the email account of an e-commerce major’s CEO being hacked is not a stray one. Increasing cases of email spoofing targeting industries have the CID’s cyber crime department concerned. Over the past few months, 3-5 cases of money being lost to spoofers have come to light. While four were reported in…
Welcome to a brand new world of ‘Behaviometrics’- a cyber security technology which uses user’s gesture as a password. Today’s world is fighting an ugly battle against millions of data breach and credit card attackers and it seems that in coming years they are not going to slow down. But the researchers of this technology…
Four months ago, cyber criminals hacked into the computer network of a New Delhi-based international 5-star hotel chain and stole some ‘loyalty points.’ The criminals then used the loyalty points to book air tickets and hotel rooms and then advertised in a leading national daily, offering them to unsuspecting buyers at half the usual rates.…
Even as the government is talking about the Digital India vision, acts of cybercrime are on a rise. Nothing is safe on your personal computers or laptops as the attacks are becoming rather sophisticated. The latest to fall victim to the ransomware attack is an East Delhi-based businessman who cannot access 500 GB of his…
China, long accused by the United States of rampant cyber aggression, may be synonymous with hacking exploits these days, but that doesn’t mean every Chinese hacker is out to pilfer and destroy. As Chinese companies grapple with a sharp increase in the number of cyber-attacks, many hackers are finding it increasingly lucrative to go above…
NITI Aayog member V.K. Saraswat on Monday said the think-tank of the central government will push policies for the indigenous manufacture of electronics and hardware to strengthen India’s cyber security. Saraswat, a former Defence Research and Development Organisation chief, stressed on the creation of indigenous technologies through ‘Make in India’ in electronics and hardware sector…
America has spent decades and trillions of dollars building up the greatest military force the world has ever seen. But the biggest threat to national security these days comes from not from aircraft carriers or infantry divisions, but a computer with a simple Internet connection. That much became clear after the catastrophic hack-most likely by…
The cyber world might be at its peak today but it’s not necessary danger-free. There are thieves, robbers, killers, cheats, and thugs in this world. This is where cyber security comes into the picture. Cyber security means keeping the cyber world free from all sorts of incidents that hinder the free and fair use of…