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Startups, SMEs most vulnerable in India to cyberattacks: Report
The most common forms of cybersecurity challenges faced by startups are negligence by employees and employee mobility, according to the report.
The most common forms of employee negligence which lead to cyberattacks including data breaches are accidental loss of the device containing confidential data, leaving the workstation unprotected or unattended, sharing confidential information such as passwords via paper notes and remote working using an unsecured or public network connection.
Security researcher breaks into Trump’s Twitter account
In a statement, a Twitter spokesperson said: “We’ve seen no evidence to corroborate this claim.”
This is the second time that Gevers has gained access to Trump’s Twitter account.
India’s Dr Reddy’s isolates data center services after cyberattack
Dr Reddy’s, India’s No.2 drugmaker by market value, had shut its key plants globally due to the breach at its servers.
Its plants in the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, India and Russia were impacted, the report added.
Lloyd’s Approves Syndicate-in-a-Box, Picnic Syndicate 2460, to cover Mutuals
Picnic will commence underwriting on Jan. 1, 2021 and would initially provide re/insurance support to the innovative mutuals that Picnic’s parent, Picnic Labs, forms and develops in Australia and New Zealand.
Battery fires put BMW and Ford on back foot just as electric vehicles take off
While EVs don’t invoke the same instinctual distrust as self-driving cars or flying taxis might, they do require a leap of faith for some consumers. A younger, tech-savvier population is one reason why China is the world’s biggest EV market, Jato Dynamics analysts said in a report earlier this week, with consumers in Europe and the US more likely to stick with what they know.Chemical Cocktail
Less carbon, more electric vehicles: automakers prepare for potential Biden win
Trump’s and Biden’s policies for autos and transportation diverge, presenting automakers with very different sets of risks and rewards.
f elected, Biden is expected to quickly reinstate the legal basis for California’s zero-emission vehicle rules and begin the process of reversing the Trump administration’s decision to ease fuel efficiency and carbon emission requirements through 2025.
Automakers could also face sharply higher penalties for failing to meet fuel-efficiency requirements. The Trump administration rolled back those penalties, which the industry said saved at least $1 billion in annual compliance costs, but a federal appeals court in August reversed the administration action.
AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial volunteer has died, Brazil health authority says
The regulator said testing of the vaccine would continue after the volunteer’s death. It provided no further details, citing medical confidentiality of those involved in trials.
The Federal University of Sao Paulo, which is helping coordinate phase 3 clinical trials in Brazil, separately said that the volunteer was Brazilian but did not say where the person lived.
Cruise, GM to seek U.S. okay for self-driving vehicle without pedal, steering wheel
Under current law, companies can seek an exemption from motor vehicle safety standards for up to 2,500 vehicles for up to two years that do not meet existing federal rules.
The exemptions are for U.S. vehicle safety rules largely written decades ago that assumed human drivers would be in control of a vehicle.
U.S. says Google breakup may be needed to end violations of antitrust law
The federal government’s complaint against Alphabet Inc’s GOOGL.O, which alleges that Google acted unlawfully to maintain its position in search and search advertising on the internet, was joined by 11 states.
The government said Google has nearly 90% of all general search engine queries in the United States and almost 95% of searches on mobile.
The lawsuit marks the first time the U.S. has cracked down on a major tech company since it sued Microsoft Corp MSFT.O for anti-competitive practices in 1998.
The European Union fined Google $1.7 billion in 2019 for stopping websites from using Google’s rivals to find advertisers, $2.6 billion in 2017 for favoring its own shopping business in search, and $4.9 billion in 2018 for blocking rivals on its wireless Android operating system.
Japan will take steps to guard against Olympics cyberattacks
Olympics organizers reported no significant impact on their operations for the 2020 Games, which were postponed until next year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Britain and the United States on Monday condemned what they said were a series of malicious cyber attacks orchestrated by Russian military intelligence, including attempts to disrupt the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.