Ireland fines Meta $263 million over Facebook hacksMeta, Facebook's parent company, has been fined €251 million by Irish regulators for a 2018 data breach affecting 29 million users globally...
17 Dec, 2024, 08.42 PM IST
Facebook owner hit with 251 million euros in fines for 2018 data breachThe hack exploited three distinct bugs in Facebook's "View As" feature, which allowed users to see how their profiles appeared to others. T...
17 Dec, 2024, 06.37 PM IST
Facebook exposes mercenary spy firms that targeted 50,000 peopleMeta's report said it was suspending roughly 1,500, mostly fake accounts run by seven organizations across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp...
17 Dec, 2021, 10.19 AM IST
Spyware find highlights depth of hacker-for-hire industryThe hacker-for-hire industry is facing increased scrutiny as well as regulatory and legal pressure. That includes a call by a group of U.S....
17 Dec, 2021, 08.54 AM IST
Tweets from Pak embassy in Serbia criticise Imran Khan, allege non-payment of salaries; FO says account hackedThe "aap nay ghabrana nahi hai" phrase often used by Khan while addressing citizens has become a taunt in Pakistan in the wake of the worse...
03 Dec, 2021, 04.25 PM IST
Personal details of 6.1 million Facebook users in India leaked onlineIndia is among the biggest markets for Facebook and its group companies WhatsApp and Instagram.
06 Apr, 2021, 08.57 AM IST
Report: Government spyware targets phones of Al-Jazeera reportersCitizen Lab at the University of Toronto said on Sunday it traced malware that infected the personal phones of 36 journalists, producers, a...
21 Dec, 2020, 11.52 AM IST
Twitter removes 130 accounts disrupting public conversation during Trump-Biden debateTwitter Inc said on Wednesday it had removed 130 accounts, as they were attempting to disrupt the public conversation during the first U.S....
01 Oct, 2020, 08.46 AM IST
Why the Saudi Crown Prince needs cyberweaponsSaudi Arabia has already shown that it cannot be trusted with powerful cybertools such as those developed by the NSO Group. Technology that...
25 Jan, 2020, 10.13 PM IST
Snooping boosts government's WhatsApp traceability caseIt means anyone can now hack into a device, take control of it and use it to spread malicious rumours that are detrimental to national secu...
07 Nov, 2019, 09.19 AM IST
KN Govindacharya files letter petition on WhatsApp NSO matter to SCGovindacharya has also written to Ravi Shankar Prasad seeking NIA investigation against FB, WhatsApp, NSO Group Technologies, and Q Cyber T...
04 Nov, 2019, 12.49 PM IST
WhatsApp confirms Indian journalists and activists targeted in hackFacebook's messaging platform alleged that the Israeli NSO Group targeted some 1,400 users. While WhatsApp declined to reveal the identitie...
01 Nov, 2019, 01.28 PM IST
Furore erupts over WhatsApp spying exposéOn Thursday, IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad took to Twitter to reiterate the Centre’s concern at the breach of privacy of Indians, and sai...
01 Nov, 2019, 07.46 AM IST
Cops miffed over delay in response by social mediaIn Bengaluru, the cybercrime police, which has seen cases of crime using social media accounts triple in the past two years, is contemplati...
25 Sep, 2019, 11.06 AM IST
Indians lead the world as Facebook big bug huntersIndian experts receive the biggest bounty in Facebook reward scheme for reporting breaches.
06 Sep, 2019, 11.11 AM IST
WhatsApp hack attack can change your messages, says Israeli security firmThe hacking tool was revealed publicly during a briefing at the annual Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on August 7.
08 Aug, 2019, 09.06 PM IST
Union minister P P Chaudhary lays emphasis on cyber securityChaudhary said that the Narendra Modi government had set a target to take high speed Internet service to the people's door step as part of ...
26 Apr, 2017, 05.20 PM IST