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NPCI BHIM Services (NBSL), a wholly owned subsidiary of National...
“Reinsurance capacities in India may be required only for property, agri and specialty lines like aviation & cyber”
N Ramaswamy, CMD, GIC Re The effort from the Regulator is to create...
Zoom to buy cloud-based call centre operator Five9 in $15-billion deal
The San Jose, California-based company is now shifting focus to its two-year-old cloud-calling product Zoom Phone and conference-hosting product Zoom Rooms as bigger players Facebook and Alphabet’s Google amp up their video products.
India among top three countries facing phishing attacks via WhatsApp and Telegram, reveals report
The biggest share of detected malicious links between December 2020 and May were sent via WhatsApp (89.6 per cent), followed by Telegram (5.6 per cent), according to data shared by Kaspersky Internet Security for Android, part of the cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab.
Countries experiencing the highest number of phishing attacks were Russia (46 per cent), Brazil (15 per cent) and India (7 per cent).
Microsoft, DHL and Amazon most imitated brands for phishing attempts: Report
“Cybercriminals are continually increasing their attempts to steal peoples’ personal data by impersonating leading brands. In fact, in the run up to Amazon Prime Day in Q2, more than 2,300 new domains were registered about Amazon,” said Omer Dembinsky, Data Research Group Manager at Check Point Software.
Seeds of Innocence to add 20 IVF & fertility centres across India by FY22
New Delhi: IVF and fertility centres chain Seeds of Innocence is looking to add 20 such centres across the country by the end of 2021-22 and also planning an international foray during the period, a top company official said. The company has 10 in vitro fertilisation...
Over 300 phone nos of ministers, journos, activists, bizmen in India could have been hacked: Report
The Wire reported that forensic tests conducted as part of the media investigation project on a small cross-section of phones associated with these numbers revealed clear signs of targeting by Pegasus spyware in 37 phones, of which 10 are Indian.
The government, however, dismissed allegations of any kind of surveillance on its part on specific people, saying it ”has no concrete basis or truth associated with it whatsoever”.
2000% increase in cyber security breaches during pandemic
“In India, almost every sector has been breached because they all are inter-connected. During the pandemic, the number of breaches increased by 2,000 per cent because we were using ASL or DSL from home. ASL, DSL, fibre, nothing is secured, this whole scenario reflects that your sensitive information is at risk and is being used for a variety of purposes, causing financial fraud, causing a threat to national security,” Rai said.
The Ministry of Home Affairs’ National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP), which was launched in August 2019, has recorded over four lakh complaints, with about 50 per cent related to financial frauds, revealed Ashok Kumar, Director, Ministry of Home Affairs.
Facebook, others ‘killing people’ by carrying COVID misinformation, says Biden
US President’s comments came a day after US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared misinformation about the vaccines a threat to public health, and as US officials advised that deaths and serious illness from the virus are almost entirely preventable because of the vaccines.
Biden, asked if he had a message for platforms like Facebook where false or misleading information about the coronavirus vaccines has spread, told reporters, They’re killing people.
The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated,” he said.
Collaboration between Delhi Police, DoT to help trace IMEI numbers of lost mobile phones
The project, which has been launched in Maharashtra and Delhi to facilitate blocking and tracing of lost and stolen mobile phones, will discourage snatching and thefts of mobile phones and also help check their resale, officials said.IMEI is a 15-digit identifier for each mobile phone used in the telecom network and according to the police, there have been many cases of cloned and duplicated IMEI handsets.
U.S. launches online hub to help ransomware victims
The new website, www.StopRansomware.gov, is an initiative led by the Justice and Homeland Security departments.
The launch of the new website and the $10 million reward come on the heels of a ransomware attack earlier this year against the Colonial Pipeline Co. that led to widespread shortages at gas stations along the East Coast of the United States. The Justice Department was later able to help Colonial Pipeline recover some $2.3 million in cryptocurrency ransom it paid to hackers.
About $350 million in ransom was paid to cyber criminals in 2020, a more than 300% increase from the previous year, the department said.
Paytm with funded by Berkshire Hathaway and Ant targets $2.2 bln Indian IPO in booming e-payment market
The offering, which values the company at up to $25 billion according to sources, comes at a time of a pandemic-fuelled boom in India’s digital economy and an intensifying battle for market share with Alphabet Inc’s Google Pay and Facebook Inc-owned WhatsApp Pay.
Founded by entrepreneur Vijay Shekhar Sharma, 43, the company was thrust into the spotlight in 2016 during India’s shock ban on high-value currency bank notes, which led to a surge in digital payments. It helped Paytm expand its services to insurance and gold sales, movie and flight ticketing, and bank deposits and remittances.