India’s Path to Digital Sovereignty, ETCISO Over a single weekend, the enterprise technology world got a critical wake-up call. A prominent proprietary AI vendor abruptly disabled global access to its cloud-hosted flagship models. A government export control directive demanded swift compliance, and because the provider could not cleanly separate domestic users from international ones on the fly, it pulled the ...
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No evidence of systems breach as hacker group claims employee data exposure
No evidence of systems breach as hacker group claims employee data exposure https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-133147559,imgsize-6566,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/data-breaches/no-evidence-of-systems-breach-as-hacker-group-claims-employee-data-exposure.jpg IT services provider HCLTech has said its initial investigation found no evidence of a breach of the company’s systems or any impact on client engagements following claims by a hacker group regarding the potential exposure of employee-related data. In a stock exchange filing, HCLTech said it was ...
Read More »Attackers Exploit SharePoint Authentication Bypass After Public PoC Release
Attackers Exploit SharePoint Authentication Bypass After Public PoC Release https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/poc.jpg Ravie LakshmananAug 13, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability following the release of a proof-of-concept (PoC) code. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS score: 9.1), which refers to a critical security feature bypass that stems from weak authentication. It ...
Read More »Top 10 Cybersecurity Lessons Every CISO Must Know, ETCISO
Top 10 Cybersecurity Lessons Every CISO Must Know, ETCISO https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-133256154,imgsize-117840,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/ciso-strategies/10-cybersecurity-lessons-for-cisos.jpg Here are some 10 broad CISO philosophies: Build for resilience Security isn’t about preventing every breach. It’s about detecting, containing and recovering fast when prevention fails. Make sovereignty strategic Data location, cloud dependencies, AI infrastructure and third-party exposure are now strategic risk questions—not just compliance concerns. Secure at India’s scale ...
Read More »Deloitte India and CrowdStrike Unite to Enhance Cybersecurity Operations, ETCISO
Deloitte India and CrowdStrike Unite to Enhance Cybersecurity Operations, ETCISO Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP (Deloitte India) announced an expansion of Deloitte’s global partnership with CrowdStrike in India. The partnership will provide organisations with access to CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform and Deloitte India’s managed security services. According to CrowdStrike’s 2026 Global Threat Report, the average eCrime breakout time has fallen to ...
Read More »BoB data breach puts spotlight on banking cybersecurity as sensitive customer records surface on Dark Web
BoB data breach puts spotlight on banking cybersecurity as sensitive customer records surface on Dark Web https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-132725840,imgsize-17566,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/data-breaches/bob-data-breach-puts-spotlight-on-banking-cybersecurity-as-sensitive-customer-records-surface-on-dark-web.jpg The alleged data breach at Bank of Baroda (BoB) is triggering fresh concerns over cybersecurity posture as well as preparedness in India’s banking sector after sensitive customer records, including Know Your Customer (KYC) documents, surfaced on the dark web. The incident has the ...
Read More »Atlassian Rovo Can Be Tricked Into Sending Jira and Confluence Data to Attackers
Atlassian Rovo Can Be Tricked Into Sending Jira and Confluence Data to Attackers https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/rovo.jpg Attacker-controlled instructions can make Atlassian’s Rovo assistant collect Jira or Confluence data that a signed-in user can access, then send it to an outside server. Two security firms found that behavior independently, by different routes. Only one of those routes is confirmed closed. PromptArmor, an AI ...
Read More »Govt earmarks Rs 790 crore for cybersecurity in FY27
Govt earmarks Rs 790 crore for cybersecurity in FY27 https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-133045968,imgsize-152034,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/cybercrime-fraud/govt-earmarks-rs-790-crore-for-cybersecurity-in-fy27.jpg The government has an outlay of Rs 790 crore for cyber security projects in the current financial year, Parliament was informed on Friday. Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Jitin Prasada, told Rajya Sabha in a written reply that the government has taken several legal, technical and administrative policy ...
Read More »OpenAI’s Astra AI Model Promises Revolutionary Cybersecurity Capabilities, ETCISO
OpenAI’s Astra AI Model Promises Revolutionary Cybersecurity Capabilities, ETCISO OpenAI on Friday said its upcoming artificial intelligence model, Astra, has demonstrated significant advances in agentic coding and cybersecurity, prompting the company to conclude that it cannot currently rule out the model reaching the “Critical” cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework. The company said its latest internal evaluations, conducted over ...
Read More »Anthropic’s Claude models breached production systems of 3 companies during security tests
Anthropic’s Claude models breached production systems of 3 companies during security tests https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-132780792,imgsize-29094,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/data-breaches/anthropics-claude-models-breached-production-systems-of-3-companies-during-security-tests.jpg Anthropic went looking through its own logs after OpenAI admitted its models had hacked Hugging Face. It found three companies whose production systems its own Claude models had broken into. Two of them had no idea until Anthropic phoned to tell them. The third has not been ...
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