According to Norton Report 2013, India ranked top 5 globally, for the highest number of incidences of cybercrime such as Ransomware, Identity Theft and Phishing. 60 per cent of these attacks were targeted towards individuals and ransomware contributed to 11 percent of them.
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An exercise carried out in four cities of the state has found that there are over 1000 unsecured WiFi networks, which could pose a threat to security.
The four-day exercise called ‘wardriving’ was conducted recently by the Goa cyber crime police in association with the Asian School of Cyber Laws.
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The US wants India to be its “best partner” to combat “shared” cyber crime threats in specific sectors of finance, infrastructure and energy, a top American official said here today. United States of America’s Coordinator for Cyber Issues Christopher Painter, who is in India for meetings with his counterparts in the cyber security domain, said…
Cyber crime in Hyderabad showed a significant 37 per cent rise this year with offences such as sending objectionable or “stalking” text messages or emails being most common, the city police said Saturday.
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US President Barack Obama said on Monday that revelations of US surveillance on German Chancellor Angela Merkel“damaged impressions” Germans hold of the US government.
Obama said during a joint news conference with Merkel at the White House that he has worked to restore the confidence of Germany and other global partners since former US
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A federal judge on Tuesday sided with the government in a lawsuit alleging the National Security Agency is illegally engaging in the bulk collection of Internet and telephone records in the hunt for potential terrorists.
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Canon Inc made a 23.6 billion-Swedish-crown ($2.83 billion) offer for network video surveillance leader Axis AB on Tuesday — the biggest purchase ever for the Japanese firm trying to expand beyond a shrinking camera market.
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Public feedback on the ‘Digital Locker’ concept and its implementation will be sought before the release of the final version. R.S. Sharma, secretary, department of electronics and IT, said that the Digital Locker would be linked to the Aadhaar card and citizens could store their government issued documents and certificates on the cloud. Centre for…
Cyber security sleuths have alerted e-banking users in the country against the infectious and destructive activity of a “worm” virus which attacks and steals personal login secrets and passwords of an individual.
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The Forbes.com financial news site was infected by Chinese hackers with spying software that targeted specific visitors, including those at U.S. financial services and defense firms, according to two cybersecurity firms.
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