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India saw largest spike in malware attacks in 2020: Report
“2020 offered a perfect storm for cybercriminals and a critical tipping point for the cyber arms race,” SonicWall President and CEO Bill Conner, said in a statement.
“The pandemic — along with remote work, a charged political climate, record prices of cryptocurrency, and threat actors weaponising cloud storage and tools — drove the effectiveness and volume of cyberattacks to new highs.”
Information security, risk management spending to grow 9.5% in India: Gartner
“The overnight move to remote-working in reaction to pandemic exposed organisations’ vulnerabilities while security leaders had to cut down on their security spending in 2020 because of IT budget cuts. In 2021, this trend is reversing,” said Prateek Bhajanka, Senior Principal Research Analyst at Gartner.
Over 26,100 Indian websites hacked in 2020 as per CERT-In data: Dhotre
“According to the logs analysed and made available to CERT-In, the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of the computers from where the attacks appear to be originated belong to various countries, including Algeria, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Netherlands, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Serbia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, USA, Vietnam etc,” he said
Why a ban on cryptocurrency could have dire consequences for India
To enforce a ban, authorities would have to develop an intrusive surveillance system that could track all digital and internet activity in the country. Thankfully, India does not have the state capacity to pull that off. More likely, its efforts will only drive the cryptocurrency market underground.
Major Whatsapp, Insta outage; services resume soon
Many WhatsApp users reported inability to send and receive messages, while Instagram too was down during the period. Independent tracking portal Downdetector showed a spike in the outage reported by users of both WhatsApp and Instagram.
The Facebook-owned platforms later said the “technical issue” had been resolved.
63 nations to see ratings downgrades by 2030 for ignoring climate change
The U.S. is projected to lose 20 per cent of its per-capita gross domestic product by 2050 in a worst-case scenario, with nations closer to the equator or with high-carbon economies even more vulnerable, according to the FTSE Russell report.
Malaysia could see the worst economic hit at 31 per cent. The projections, based on trends of greenhouse-gas emissions and countries’ mitigation efforts, show the risk for investors of long-term bets on sovereign bonds.
Climate-change linked downgrades could cost countries $270 billion-a-year
The estimates comes amid warnings by policy makers from around the world that financial markets are underpricing the risk of climate change on asset prices, with potentially costly future corrections.
Facebook to help 50 million people get vaccines, to add labels to fake posts
One of the new tools announced by the company will show you when and where you can get vaccinated, and gives you a link to make an appointment. The new tool will be available in the Covid Information Centre, that Facebook will show right in your News Feed.
Airlines face headache over ‘use-by’ date on some jet parts as pandemic grounds fleets
In the highly regulated world of airplane maintenance, the frequency of many tasks is determined by the number of take-offs and landings or flight hours. But others, such as life vests and portable oxygen bottles, have a fixed schedule for replacement.
Vaccine nationalism may hit WHO’s 2021 goal of 2 bn doses: Adar Poonawalla
Poonawalla’s comments highlight the continuing challenge of vaccine inequality that threatens to prolong the pandemic after richer nations raced to stockpile supplies. Few African nations received a single shipment of shots before March, while more than 20% of the population in countries including Israel, the U.K., Bahrain and the U.S have received at least one shot.