Kyivstar may need weeks to restore all services after cyber attack: CEO Ukraine’s biggest mobile operator Kyivstar may need several weeks to reinstate all its services after a massive cyber attack, though major services could be restored by the end of this week, the company’s CEO Oleksandr Komarov said on Thursday. Tuesday’s attack on Kyivstar, which counts more than half ...

Austrian activist Schrems broadens Meta privacy complaint Privacy activist Max Schrems’ advocacy group Noyb on Thursday expanded its complaint about Meta Platforms’ paid no-ads subscription service as it urged Austrian authorities to investigate the difficulty users face in seeking to avoid being tracked. In November, Noyb had told the Austrian Data Protection Authority that Meta’s no-ads subscription service launched in ...

Widening disparities, growing threats cloud global cybersecurity outlook: WEF An average of eight in ten top business executives globally feel more or as exposed to cybercrime than they did last year, a new survey showed on Thursday. The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2024 report, prepared in collaboration with Accenture, also flagged threats posed by AI-generated deepfakes to spread ...

48% were unable to recover their data even after adopting data protection measures: Report Dell Technologies released the latest edition of its Global Data Protection Index (GDPI) Cyber Resiliency Multicloud Edition which brings into focus the threat of cyberattacks, the rise of generative AI and its impact, and the ongoing expansion into multicloud environments while highlighting how cyber threats continue ...

A congregation of India’s top CISOs and security guardians   Enterprises need to secure, innovate, defend, and lead all at once. ETCISO Secufest 2024 presents the opportunity to learn how you can deliver on each of these fronts with the most proven best-in-class security mechanisms. The most keenly awaited security conclave in the ICT ecosystem is just around the corner ...

World Economic Forum has an AI warning for the global economy The World Economic Forum’s latest Global Risks Report identifies false and misleading information fueled by advanced artificial intelligence as the top risk to the global economy. The “Global Risks Report 2024” by the World Economic Forum was released on Wednesday. It has ranked the dangers associated with AI-generated misinformation ...

French computer hacker jailed in US A computer hacker who was part of a criminal gang that stole data from hundreds of millions of people and sold it on the dark web was jailed in the United States on Tuesday. Frenchman Sebastien Raoult created fake login pages as part of the ShinyHunters hacking group, which were used to raid the ...

Microsoft corrects the mistake it made while investing billions in ChatGPT maker Microsoft seems to have learnt its lesson from the fiasco at ChatGPT maker OpenAI. In November, ChatGPT board sacked the company’s CEO Sam Altman during a video call. The news shocked and surprised Microsoft, ChatGPT’s biggest investor, as everyone else. It’s a different story that two more days ...

Anuprita Daga moves on from Yes Bank, joins Angel One as Group CISO Anuprita Daga, Group CISO, Angel One Anuprita Daga has moved on from Yes Bank. She has joined Angel One as Group CISO. Angel One is the largest listed retail stock broking house in India, in terms of active clients on NSE. A technology-led financial services company, it ...

Hackers hit Moscow internet provider in response to Kyivstar cyber attack cyberattacks Hackers linked to Ukraine’s main spy agency have breached computer systems at a Moscow-based internet provider in retaliation for a Russian cyber attack against Ukrainian telecom giant Kyivstar, a source with direct knowledge of the operation told Reuters on Tuesday. The hacking group, dubbed “Blackjack”, has previously been ...