Digital Competition Bill: Here’s how India’s EU-like antitrust law worrying big tech – ET CISO https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-110926460,imgsize-57568,width-1200,height=765,overlay-etciso/ot-security/digital-competition-bill-heres-how-indias-eu-like-antitrust-law-worrying-big-tech.jpg The big digital companies would be prohibited from exploiting non-public user data and from favouring their own products or services on their platforms. India’s proposed EU-like antitrust law will pose a fresh regulatory challenge for tech firms including Apple, Google and Meta, laying out ...
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CCI extends bidding deadline for AI to June 28, ET CISO
CCI extends bidding deadline for AI to June 28, ET CISO Fair trade regulator CCI has issued clarifications on the bidding for conducting the study on artificial intelligence and its impact on competition, and has extended the deadline for submission of bids till June 18. Earlier, the deadline for the bids was June 3. In a set of clarifications, the ...
Read More »Lessons from the Ticketmaster-Snowflake Breach
Lessons from the Ticketmaster-Snowflake Breach https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/one.png Last week, the notorious hacker gang, ShinyHunters, sent shockwaves across the globe by allegedly plundering 1.3 terabytes of data from 560 million Ticketmaster users. This colossal breach, with a price tag of $500,000, could expose the personal information of a massive swath of the live event company’s clientele, igniting a firestorm of concern and ...
Read More »Fortinet to Acquire Lacework, Enhancing the Industry’s Most Comprehensive Cybersecurity Platform – ET CISO
Fortinet to Acquire Lacework, Enhancing the Industry’s Most Comprehensive Cybersecurity Platform – ET CISO https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-110927414,imgsize-23236,width-1200,height=765,overlay-etciso/ot-security/fortinet-to-acquire-lacework-enhancing-the-industrys-most-comprehensive-cybersecurity-platform.jpg Lacework delivers a leading AI-powered cloud security platform. Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Lacework, the data-driven cloud security company. Lacework delivers a leading AI-powered ...
Read More »Divan Raimagia joins Head of Cybersecurity at Adani Green Energy Ltd, ET CISO
Divan Raimagia joins Head of Cybersecurity at Adani Green Energy Ltd, ET CISO Divan Raimagia, Head of Cybersecurity, Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL). Divan Raimagia as the new Head of Cybersecurity, at Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL). In this pivotal role, Divan will lead AGEL’s cybersecurity function, overseeing the implementation of robust cybersecurity policies and ensuring the integration of cyber ...
Read More »Microsoft Issues Patches for 51 Flaws, Including Critical MSMQ Vulnerability
Microsoft Issues Patches for 51 Flaws, Including Critical MSMQ Vulnerability https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ms.png Jun 12, 2024NewsroomPatch Tuesday / Vulnerability Microsoft has released security updates to address 51 flaws as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for June 2024. Of the 51 vulnerabilities, one is rated Critical and 50 are rated Important. This is in addition to 17 vulnerabilities resolved in the Chromium-based ...
Read More »A comprehensive guard against social engineering in the digital age – ET CISO
A comprehensive guard against social engineering in the digital age – ET CISO https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-110932985,imgsize-3848,width-1200,height=765,overlay-etciso/ciso-strategies/a-comprehensive-guard-against-social-engineering-in-the-digital-age.jpg Brijesh Balakrishnan, Vice President & Global Head of Cybersecurity Practice, Infosys Social engineering attacks are an exercise in deception, with cybercriminals exploiting human vulnerabilities rather than technical flaws. These attacks play on psychological traits such as curiosity, trust, and fear to extract sensitive information or compel ...
Read More »Cyberattackers are launching attacks in Rust programming language, ET CISO
Cyberattackers are launching attacks in Rust programming language, ET CISO There were 2.8 million Rust developers worldwide in 2023. Cyberattackers have a new exploitation tool Rust programming language. Popular ransomware and malware families on the dark web such as BlackCat (ALPHV), Hive, Luna, RansomExx, and Agenda are increasingly launching attacks coded in Rust language which are evading traditional threat detection ...
Read More »Chinese Actor SecShow Conducts Massive DNS Probing on Global Scale
Chinese Actor SecShow Conducts Massive DNS Probing on Global Scale https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/lcok.png Cybersecurity researchers have shed more light on a Chinese actor codenamed SecShow that has been observed conducting Domain Name System (DNS) on a global scale since at least June 2023. The adversary, according to Infoblox security researchers Dr. Renée Burton and Dave Mitchell, operates from the China Education and ...
Read More »Facebook hit with fresh user data leak – ET CISO
Facebook hit with fresh user data leak – ET CISO https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-110888278,imgsize-7108,width-1200,height=765,overlay-etciso/data-breaches/facebook-hit-with-fresh-user-data-leak.jpg Facebook (Meta) has yet to comment on the CyberPeace claims. Cybersecurity researchers have reported an alleged data leak involving at least one lakh users of Facebook which appeared on a data breach forum. The team from New Delhi-based non-profit organization CyberPeace alleged that 1,00,000 lines of fresh user data ...
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