CyberSecurity

Pornhub launches its own bug bounty programme with rewards up to $25,000

Hyderabad company loses Rs. 60 lakh to hacker from Odisha village

Himalaya Mohanty, from a village in Odisha, reportedly used translation software to learn how to hack.

May 30, 2016

Who Is Behind The Stuxnet Lookalike, Regin Malware? Evidence Suggest British And American Spies

Ransomware creators have change of heart, publish decryption key online

Creators of ransomware Teslacrypt reportedly put up the decryption key when asked by an ESET security researcher.

May 20, 2016

Cybercrime group Suckfly wanted to impact the Indian economy: Symantec

The hacker group reportedly used advanced tactics to successfully launch attacks on e-commerce companies, financial intuitions and government organizations.

May 19, 2016

John McAfee claims to have hacked encrypted WhatsApp; expert says otherwise

John McAfee is said to have tricked some reporters into believing that the encrypted WhatsApp app had been hacked.

May 16, 2016

IBM is training Watson to hunt hackers

The AI will be fed information related to cybersecurity and also trained to read security blogs and identify potential threats.

May 10, 2016

Software security suffers as upstarts lose access to virus data

The policy change at the information-sharing pioneer VirusTotal takes aim mainly at a new generation of security companies.

May 8, 2016

Operation Icarus: Anonymous to attack stock markets and world banks in 30-day cyber assault

The notorious hacking collective launched Operation Icarus to protest alleged global banking corruption.

May 6, 2016

Pak, Bangladesh, Nepal among nations most prone to malware attacks

Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report lists Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh as prime targets along with Palestinian Territories and Indonesia.

May 6, 2016

Ten-year-old wins Facebook's 'bug bounty' prize

Facebook awarded Jani, a 10-year-old boy from Finland, a $10,000 'bug bounty' for reporting an Instagram bug.

May 4, 2016

Why TOR and VPN users around the world should fear Rule 41

An amendment to the rule could give the U.S. government the power to remotely access devices that don't report their locations across the world.

May 2, 2016

Qatar National Bank leak reveals data on al-Jazeera journalists and British spies

The data dump contains files on everything from the intelligence services to journalists.

Apr 27, 2016

India Tops List Of Golroted Malware Attacks: What Are The Risks And How To Protect Yourself And Your Business?

This Android ransomware accepts only iTunes gift cards as payment

The malware, which downloads itself automatically and locks the infected device, can be removed by doing a factory reset.

Apr 26, 2016

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Losing a device costs a lot more than the device itself: Kaspersky Labs

The security company's report said account information, financial data, and personal data are commonly found on devices, with 77% users having lost a device.

Apr 26, 2016

India remains top source and target of cyber attacks

A report on global cybersecurity trends by Symantec ranks India as the third most-prolific source of malicious activity online.

Apr 21, 2016

Google.com is 'partially dangerous,' says Google

Google's Safe Browsing Site Status page lists Google.com as potentially harmful, citing malicious links inside its pages as the reason for the red flag.

Apr 20, 2016