AI cannot replace doctors, says IMA chief, IT Security News, ET CISO Artificial intelligence cannot replace doctors though this technology can assist medical practitioners, IMA chief Dr R V Asokan has said. During an interaction with PTI editors, he said the medical profession has always been the first to embrace technology but it cannot supersede the connection between a patient ...
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Zero-day vulnerabilities becoming major source of cyberattacks: Verizon – ET CISO
Zero-day vulnerabilities becoming major source of cyberattacks: Verizon – ET CISO https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-109773721,imgsize-874584,width-1200,height=765,overlay-etciso/corporate/zero-day-vulnerabilities-becoming-major-source-of-cyberattacks-verizon.jpg Cyberattacks stemming from exploitation of vulnerabilities for accessing data have shot up by a staggering 180% in 2023 and almost tripled over the past year, a new study has revealed. The growth is majorly fueled by the MOVEit vulnerability where hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit ...
Read More »CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Severe GitLab Password Reset Vulnerability
CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Severe GitLab Password Reset Vulnerability https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/gitlab.png May 02, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Data Breach The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical flaw impacting GitLab to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, owing to active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-7028 (CVSS score: 10.0), the maximum severity vulnerability could facilitate account ...
Read More »Zero-day vulnerabilities becoming major source of cyberattacks: Verizon – ET CISO
Zero-day vulnerabilities becoming major source of cyberattacks: Verizon – ET CISO https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-109773721,imgsize-874584,width-1200,height=765,overlay-etciso/corporate/zero-day-vulnerabilities-becoming-major-source-of-cyberattacks-verizon.jpg Cyberattacks stemming from exploitation of vulnerabilities for accessing data have shot up by a staggering 180% in 2023 and almost tripled over the past year, a new study has revealed. The growth is majorly fueled by the MOVEit vulnerability where hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit ...
Read More »RBI cites deficiency in IT risk and information security governance in Kotak Mahindra Bank ruling, ET CISO
RBI cites deficiency in IT risk and information security governance in Kotak Mahindra Bank ruling, ET CISO Mumbai: The RBI on Wednesday barred Kotak Mahindra Bank from onboarding new customers through its online and mobile banking channels and issuing fresh credit cards with immediate effect after the regulator found serious deficiencies in the lender’s IT risk management. These actions, the ...
Read More »Comprehensive law to prevent organisations from hiding data breaches: Rajeev Chandrasekhar – ET CISO
Comprehensive law to prevent organisations from hiding data breaches: Rajeev Chandrasekhar – ET CISO https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-89821283,imgsize-52790,width-1200,height=765,overlay-etciso/news/comprehensive-law-to-prevent-organisations-from-hiding-data-breaches-rajeev-chandrasekhar.jpg Rajeev Chandrasekhar The government is working on comprehensive laws that will prevent corporations from hiding security and data breaches, said Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT. Chandrasekhar was speaking at the launch of IBM’s security command centre in Bengaluru. He said ...
Read More »Bitcoin Forensic Analysis Uncovers Money Laundering Clusters and Criminal Proceeds
Bitcoin Forensic Analysis Uncovers Money Laundering Clusters and Criminal Proceeds https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/blockchain.png May 01, 2024NewsroomFinancial Crime / Forensic Analysis A forensic analysis of a graph dataset containing transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain has revealed clusters associated with illicit activity and money laundering, including detecting criminal proceeds sent to a crypto exchange and previously unknown wallets belonging to a Russian darknet market. ...
Read More »Google banned over 2 mn policy-violating apps from Play Store last year – ET CISO
Google banned over 2 mn policy-violating apps from Play Store last year – ET CISO https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-109746131,imgsize-4402,width-1200,height=765,overlay-etciso/corporate/google-banned-over-2-mn-policy-violating-apps-from-play-store-last-year.jpg Google said that it prevented 2.28 million policy-violating apps from being published on its Play Store in 2023. The company also banned 333,000 bad accounts from the Play Store for violations like confirmed malware and repeated severe policy breaches created by criminals and fraud ...
Read More »Govt’s cyber agency finds multiple bugs in Cisco products, ET CISO
Govt’s cyber agency finds multiple bugs in Cisco products, ET CISO The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) which comes under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, has issued an advisory over three serious vulnerabilities in networking giant Cisco products that could allow hackers to gain access, infiltrate into computer systems and steal data. The Indian Computer Emergency Response ...
Read More »Protecting your web application from security breach – A primer – ET CISO
Protecting your web application from security breach – A primer – ET CISO https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-93425610,imgsize-349780,width-1200,height=765,overlay-etciso/news/protecting-your-web-application-from-security-breach-a-primer.jpg By Venkatesh Sundar Going digital has become the norm today and software applications have become an integral part of our lives. However, this has also meant that data breaches and cyberattacks are also growing at an alarming rate. These breaches often come from minor glitches in ...
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