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Fund raising from capital markets to jump 21% to Rs 14.27 trn in FY25: Buch
Buch said in the past nine months of the current fiscal, entities...
IRDAI further strengthens regulatory framework, notifies 5 more regulations/amendments
These changes align with IRDAI’s broader move towards a modern,...
Geospatial, digital technologies can be effectively used to combat water crisis, says report
Given the population density and requirement of water for agriculture, India is heavily dependent on groundwater and is one of the worst hit countries as far as the water crisis is concerned.
As cyberattacks rise, Cyber insurers are overhauling their strategies
Cyber policies are relative newcomers to the centuries-old insurance industry. The sector has exploded in the past decade — with premiums more than doubling since 2015 and totaling $3.15 billion last year, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
Some firms are charging more for less coverage. Clients in US paid 35% more for cyber coverage in the first quarter than they did in the same period last year, according to broker Marsh McLennan. Demand for standalone policies surged 24% last year.
Wrestling with higher costs and more risk, insurers are tightening standards, boosting prices and slashing how much they’re willing to pay for a breach.
Born prematurely, critically-ill baby undergoes rare surgery in Delhi
The surgery took place on June 16 through a device called ”piccolo’.,.
He was diagnosed with Patent Ductus Arteriosus or PDA, a common condition detected in newborns.
PDA causes a duct or an opening in a child’s heart to stay open which otherwise would have closed within three to seven days of the birth. This causes a backflow of blood from the heart to the lungs causing major complications due to the blood pooling in the lungs, doctors said.
US to expose China’s ‘malicious cyber activities’ after threat to economic, national security
In the announcement which will be made tomorrow morning at 7 am (local time), there will be three things including — an unprecedented group of allies and partners (the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, and NATO) will be joining the US in exposing and criticising the PRC’s Ministry of State Security’s malicious cyber activities. This is the first time NATO has condemned PRC cyber activities, the officials said via Teleconference.
“We will show how the PRC’s MSS — Ministry of State Security — uses criminal contract hackers to conduct unsanctioned cyber operations globally, including for their own personal profit. Their operations include criminal activities, such as cyber-enabled extortion, crypto-jacking, and theft from victims around the world for financial gain,” the officials said.
FACTBOX:Automakers cutting back on rare earth magnets
Permanent magnet motors – using rare piles of the earth such as neodymium and dysprosium – naturally have a magnetic force. These are at the heart of many electric motors, powering the rotor of the drivetrain.
Motors without permanent magnets, such as induction motors, use electric current, often with copper wiring, to create a magnetic field and power the motor. These are cheaper, but less efficient and require a larger battery, reducing the driving range.
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”.