Most CISOs to change jobs due to growing stress from hacking threats Nearly half of chief information security officers (CISOs) will change jobs by 2025 globally and 25 per cent will quit due to multiple work-related stress, according to a Gartner report. The cybersecurity personnel are facing acute stress as nation-state bad actors continue to infiltrate government and enterprise systems ...

Australian govt to overhaul cyber laws Canberra, The Australian government on Monday announced an overhaul of its cyber security strategy following a string of major data breaches. Clare O’Neil, the Minister for Home Affairs, revealed the renewed strategy, saying the 2022 Optus and Medibank hacks exposed flaws in cyber laws, reports Xinhua news agency. A new national coordinator for cyber ...

Only companies investing in digital infra have a future: Parveen Gupta, Former SBI MD It is India Inc.’s most well-known fact that the first sector to always leap towards digital adoption has been banking and financial services. BFSI was among the first few sectors to be impacted by digital too. Parveen K Gupta, Former MD, SBI & Chairman, Utkarsh Small ...

Fraudsters hit LinkedIn with recruitment scam wave amid tech layoffs New Delhi: Professional networking major LinkedIn has been hit by several state-of-the-art recruitment scams after massive tech layoffs, and fraudsters are cheating those sacked by offering them jobs that do not exist. According to the Financial Times, phony recruitments are being run by scammers pretending to be employers on Microsoft-owned ...

NCERT starts DIKSHA security audit after data breach reports The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has initiated a third-party security audit of the Diksha (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing) app, following reports of a breach of data belonging to the government-run platform. Diksha is a national platform for school education developed by Bengaluru-based EkStep Foundation. It is ...

US Consulate, CUTS International team up to mitigate cyber threats for SMBs The US Consulate and research and advocacy firm CUTS International have entered into a collaboration to jointly mitigate cyber threats for small and medium businesses. To this effect, the U.S. Consulate General Kolkata and CUTS International, in collaboration with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), and Arunachal ...

Cyber laxity: Goa govt posts department login IDs, passwords online PANAJI: In a move that has raised some eyebrows among cybersecurity experts and IT professionals, the administrative reforms department issued a circular with the login credentials of all the state government departments. The government circular, which was issued on February 8, asks every government department to upload their annual administration ...

CID blacklists 30,000 SIM cards used to con 1.27 lakh Gujaratis of Rs 815 crore AHMEDABAD: How many times have you been butted in by scammers with romance chat links, SMS ultimatums about power disconnections, and lucky draw and bitcoin offers that sound too good to be true? And how many times have you gone against your instincts and clicked ...

CFOs need to do resilience planning to fight continued shocks: HDFC CEO Keki Mistry HDFC Vice Chairman and CEO Keki Mistry said CFOs need to do resilience planning as there are shocks on continued basis. CFOs need to learn from experience of the recent crisis and prepare for the coming ones, Mistry said delivering the keynote address on CFOs Leading ...

LS Speaker Om Birla expresses concern about cyberbullying, drug abuse Gangtok (Sikkim) [India], February 24 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla urged for collective efforts to tackle the problem of cyberbullying and drug abuse. He expressed his concern during the inaugural ceremony of the Annual Zone III Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) India Region on Thursday. The 19th Annual Zone III ...