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A New Generation of Cyberattacks that Can Fry Your Computer

  • Sakshat Karkare / 12 years
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If we thought that cyberattacks can only affect our computers to the software level, then here’s a something to give this thought a different perspective! Uptil now, we witnessed cyberattacks going after the software components of targeted computers. But apparently, there is something scarier than this; something that can take down the hardware – the […]

Latest security news updates from the week gone by

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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India and hardware makers at loggerheads over cyber security guidelines The Indian Government wants all hardware manufacturers to include a mandatory brochure on cyber security. This stretches to all forms of hardware right from computers and mobile phones to modems and USB drives. However, the hardware companies are not too happy about this as this […]

Syria Internet shutdown: The Internet ‘Kill Switch’ exists

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Can a country shutdown the Internet for its citizens with a simple kill switch? There have been many debates about this in the past and it seems that the answer is a resounding ‘yes’. Further proof of this surfaced yesterday with news that the Syrian Government shutdown complete Internet access for the country at +10:30 […]

Round-up of the latest security news updates

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Millions of hackers target Israel after Gaza offensive Israel undertook air-based attacks against the Gaza strip last week and as a result they were hit with more than 44 million hacking attempts. The targeted websites ranged from defense-related sites to several commercial websites. Cyberspace has fast transformed into a battlefield for international politics and the […]

Latest news updates from the last week

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Facebook offers new privacy setting indicators for new users In a move that suggests Facebook has begun to marginally accept that it is responsible for user privacy, the social network has revised the manner in which it informs new users about privacy settings. This includes little indicators like ‘light bulbs’ that highlight default privacy settings […]

US looks to ban Huawei and ZTE for cyberespionage, India waits in anticipation

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Many people in India are unaware about Huawei and its large number of products that are sold here. These range from simple wireless modems to advanced networking equipment utilized by industries and other hardware manufacturers. Most of the USB dongles that are sold in the country also come from the Chinese brand Huawei, or its […]

Security news updates from the last week

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Microsoft releases ‘Fix it’ tool for IE vulnerability Microsoft has released a temporary “Fix it” tool for the highly publicized Internet Explorer vulnerability. A full IE update will soon be released as well. The security hole exploited Internet Explorer users when they visited a malicious website and installed a trojan known as Poison Ivy on […]

Security news updates from the last week

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Indian power grids are vulnerable to cyber-attackers The recent power outage in North India caused mayhem and now officials have said that it is possible for cyber-attackers to hack into the Indian power grid. There is a surprising lack of defense protocols in this sector and this is the cause for tremendous alarm. CERT-IN (Computer […]

Will India go offensive in response to looming cyberwar threats?

  • Sanjay Katkar / 14 years
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Advancements in technology have brought the world closer together but have simultaneously opened up new fronts for global conflicts. Countries are increasingly adopting aggressive stances against critical networked systems that belong to other nations. Recent threats like Stuxnet, Duqu and Flamer have shown us the extent that such attacks can go to. This has led […]