Cybersecurity
Financial CERT to combat cyber threats, says MoS home affairs
- November 23, 2017
To tackle cyber threats to India’s financial institutions, the central government is mulling to establish a financial Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT).
Read more →Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC)
- November 23, 2017
The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace organized a meeting on November 21, 2017 in New Delhi. The meeting took place at Taj Diplomatic Enclave Hotel on the sidelines of the 5th Global Conference on Cyberspace. Pranesh Prakash participated in the event.
Read more →Roundtable on Enhancing Indian Cyber Security through Multi-Stakeholder Cooperation
- October 28, 2017
A closed door round-table on enhancing Indian cyber security is being organized on 4 November 2017 at Indian Islamic Centre, Lodhi Road in New Delhi.
Read more →50p and Digital Payments Masterclass Learning - CIS
- June 15, 2017
Sunil Abraham, Saikat Dutta and Udbhav Tiwari from the CIS team attended 50p on the 24 and 25 of January 2017 in Bangalore, India. We had the following learnings from the event, which will shape our work in the digital finance and payments space in the future.
Read more →Zomato hack: You need to enhance online security with a password manager
- May 23, 2017
Hacking incident at Zomato underlines need to employ different passwords for different accounts.
Read more →Hacker steals 17 million Zomato users’ data, briefly puts it on dark web
- May 20, 2017
Records of 17 million users were stolen from online restaurant search platform Zomato, the company said in a blog post on Thursday.
Read more →Experts stress on need for enhanced security
- May 19, 2017
With more and more people falling prey to phishing scams, experts believe that lack of adequate security features in online payment systems will only increase the number of such cases in the coming days. While admitting that the rise in such crimes would be hard to stop or control, cyber security consultants also blame the lack of preparedness before taking the digital economy route as a cause for such problems.
Read more →What’s Hard To Digest About The Zomato Hacking
- May 19, 2017
Yet another day, yet another major security breach. But, this time it’s not a presidential candidate in the U.S. or the U.K.’s National Health Service. Instead. it’s Zomato, the popular Indian online food delivery and restaurant search service.
Read more →Hack exposes Zomato's weak protection of customer data, say Cyber experts
- May 19, 2017
Online restaurant aggregator says it will beef up security after 17 million user details were stolen.
Read more →IT companies in Bengaluru on high alert over WannaCry ransomware
- May 19, 2017
In the wake of the ransomware attack triggered by WannaCry virus, IT firms in Bengaluru are racing against time to updating their security systems. At some firms, employees have been asked to stay away from work for a few hours, while many other companies have declared holiday for a day or two for their employees.
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