BSNL suffers data breach; sensitive info of users up for sale on dark web   Chennai: State-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has allegedly suffered a data breach as a threat actor has claimed to have “critical information” pertaining to the company’s users, ET has learnt. The threat actor using the alias ‘Perell’ has disclosed a “sample dataset” ...

Jay Bavisi, CEO, EC Council Jay Bavisi, CEO of EC Council Threat management is getting increasingly harder – thanks to rising instances of insider threat, cloud misconfigurations, APTs and polymorphic malware, IT/OT convergence, and a constantly-expanding attack surface – to name a few. Besides battling challenges cropping up from the technology or operational side of things, CISOs are faced with ...

Cyber risks biggest threat faced by Indian organizations: Survey Cyber risks are cited as the biggest threat faced by Indian organisations with 38 per cent of respondents feeling highly or extremely exposed to it, says a survey. With this, cybersecurity has jumped two spots from number three to number one on the risk radar when compared to the 2022 Global ...

Microsoft-backed Rubrik shares plans to “strengthen” cybersecurity in India US-based cloud data management and data security startup Rubrik Inc is planning to expand its business in India. Amid increasing cyber attacks, the Microsoft-backed company is eyeing acquisitions and wants to ride the large-scale data and digital growth wave. For over six years, the company has had one-third of its global ...

Top 10 cybersecurity trends, IT Security News Cybersecurity, by its very nature, is a moving target and that makes a CISO’s job challenging. As we look ahead to 2024, the cybersecurity space will teeter on the cusp of momentous transformations. The unfolding trends will not be incremental; rather, they will herald a cyber renaissance, completely reforming our approaches to threats. ...

G20 website targeted at least 16 lakh times last year: Cyber agency India’s official G20 website was attacked at least 16 lakh times last year, Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) revealed on Wednesday. It added that Rs 10,319 crore were siphoned off by criminals between April 2021 and December 2023. Victims were also targeted using online investment fraud, illegal ...

Retailers say Samsung’s upgrade offer exposes them to compliance risks – ET CISO https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-106507022,imgsize-169324,width-1200,height=765,overlay-etciso/corporate/retailers-say-samsungs-upgrade-offer-exposes-them-to-compliance-risks.jpg Mobile phone retailers have flagged alleged malpractices in an ongoing device exchange offer from Korean smartphone major Samsung that exposed retailers to risks in regulatory compliance. Samsung did not respond to ET’s queries. Samsung, on its part, has taken corrective measures. In an updated scheme letter ...

Australia’s Eagers Automotive finds unauthorized access to parts of IT systems Australia’s Eagers Automotive on Tuesday said an investigation found that a cyber incident last week that resulted in an outage involved unauthorized access to parts of the company’s information technology (IT) systems by a third party that accessed data from its servers. “Based on investigations to-date, the company is ...

Meta purged over 23 mn bad pieces of content on FB, Insta in India in Nov 2023 Meta said that it took down over 18.3 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 4.7 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram in India in November 2023. Between November 1-30 Facebook received 21,149 reports through the ...

Google settles $5 billion privacy lawsuit over tracking people using ‘incognito mode’ Google has agreed to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit alleging that it spied on people who used the “incognito” mode in its Chrome browser – along with similar “private” modes in other browsers – to track their internet use. The class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 said Google ...