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15.5 lakh cyber security incidents in 2019, 2020: Govt tells Lok Sabha
Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said the CERT-In receives inputs from its situational awareness systems and threat intelligence sources about malware infections in networks of entities across sectors.
FIU warns COVID-19 upheavals might beget new financial cyber crimes
“The upheavals generated by COVID-19 might prove to be a breeding ground for novel modus operandi and crimes such as electronic frauds and cybercrimes,” he said.
Electric shock – German auto stocks get a new lease of life
Volkswagen, the German company competing with Toyota to be the world’s biggest vehicle seller by volume, laid out its ambitious plan to turn 70% of European sales at its core VW brand electric during its “power day” last Monday.German rival BMW, meanwhile, said on Wednesday it was aiming for half of its sales to be non-fossil fuel vehicles by 2030, and that around 90% of its market categories would have fully-electric models available by 2023.
Advanced nuclear reactors no safer than conventional nuclear plants, says science group
“In many cases, they are worse with regard to … safety, and the potential for severe accidents and potential nuclear proliferation,” said Lyman, author of the report UCS released Thursday called “‘Advanced’ Isn’t Always Better”.
Facebook fails in bid to derail $15 billion privacy suit
US wiretap law makes it illegal to snoop on electronic communications unless one is a party to the exchange.
The suit accuses Facebook of wrongly tracking users away from the social network, then making money from the data by selling it to marketers for targeting ads.
Popular remote learning software prone to hacking
The McAfee Labs Advanced Threat Research team recently investigated a software called Netop Vision Pro produced by Netop and installed on computers used in several schools.
Gahlot asks commercial vehicle owners to convert half of their fleet to electric
”The Delhi government has taken a pioneering step in reducing the rate of interest by introducing the interest subvention scheme of five per cent which will be offered through the Delhi Finance Corporation (DFC). This scheme is at the advanced stage of drafting and will be announced soon,” Gahlot said.
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