Antitrust case against Apple for keeping customers locked into its ecosystem: Report The US Justice Department is reportedly preparing to file a federal antitrust case against Apple for keeping customers locked into its ecosystem. According to a report in The New York Times, citing sources, the Justice Department is in “late stages” of a probe into the iPhone maker for ...

AI-generated scams to increase cyber risks in 2024 Artificial intelligence-generated frauds such as deepfake media shall potentially increase risks of identity theft, phishing scams, and cyber bullying among children, cybersecurity solutions firm McAfee has said in its predictions for 2024. “From phishing emails so real that even the experts will have trouble telling fact from fiction to deepfakes that could ...

AI can be a transforming agent for experience elevation and personalization   Prasenjit Roy, CMO, NTT Ltd India We are living in an age of instant gratification and consumption. From the way we order food to book tickets, everything is immediate. Customer service is no different, and no one likes to wait. Today, customers expect quick and accurate answers to ...

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 ...