France hands Musk X probe to investigating judgeFrench regulators have launched a probe into Elon Musk regarding potential misdeeds on his social media network, X. The investigation scrut...
07 May, 2026, 10.48 PM IST
Cyber pirates at large, India readies moatsThe Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) and defen...
31 Mar, 2026, 07.49 AM IST
US says it disrupted botnets that infected over 3 million devices worldwideThe malicious networks - Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid and Mossad - were used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, with som...
20 Mar, 2026, 09.25 AM IST
US disrupts global botnets affecting more than three million devicesA major international operation has successfully taken down four large botnets. These networks infected over three million devices worldwid...
20 Mar, 2026, 09.07 AM IST
Beware! Hackers use electric toothbrushes in massive cyber attack, results in huge financial lossHackers exploited millions of electric toothbrushes to launch a cyber attack on a Swiss company, causing significant financial damage. The ...
07 Feb, 2024, 07.37 PM IST
Internet companies Google, Amazon and Cloudflare report biggest-ever denial of service operationDenial of service is among the web's most basic form of attack and it works by simply overwhelming targeted servers with a firehose of bogu...
12 Oct, 2023, 01.06 AM IST
Future warfare is likely to be hybrid with weapons ranging from computer virus to hypersonic missiles, says IAF Chief"What I am trying to get at is that in the next war, the enemy might not be a country or an organisation," he mentioned. India may never kn...
12 Apr, 2022, 01.01 PM IST
Russian defence ministry says its website hit by foreign cyberattack"...The source of the attack on the ... defence ministry's website is located outside the Russian Federation," the ministry was quoted as s...
16 Jul, 2021, 04.07 PM IST
Hybrid’s the best shield against cyber attackHybrid protection is the best safeguard against the complex distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyberattack that shook the internet recent...
31 Oct, 2016, 01.04 AM IST
Internet providers claim DDoS attack; to meet top copIn July, ISPs had filed an FIR with IG's office about DDoS attack and the case is being investigated by cyber cell of Mumbai Police.
16 Oct, 2016, 06.45 PM IST
BBC says website knocked down due to apparent attackThe BBC's entire network of websites and its iPlayer streaming service crashed after a large web attack by hackers. It later emerged they h...
31 Dec, 2015, 08.51 PM IST
26 per cent of distributed denial of service attacks this year originated from India: SymantecIndia has emerged as top destination for origination of DDoS cyber attacks, accounting for 26% of such attacks on gaming, software and medi...
21 Oct, 2014, 08.14 PM IST
- Reputed government, private websites under hacker threat: Cyber agency
Analysts have issued an alert for Internet users and operators against hackers attempting to target websites of "reputed" government and pr...
27 May, 2012, 10.27 AM IST
- WikiLeaks says it's under powerful cyberattack
The WikiLeaks website says it's under a forceful Internet-based attack, and the site is inaccessible to users in US and Europe.
30 Nov, 2010, 10.21 PM IST
- Hacker attack crashes Wikileaks website
An apparent hacker attack crashed the Wikileaks website Sunday, just as 250,000 leaked US diplomatic despatches were being made public, but...
29 Nov, 2010, 08.52 AM IST
- Tata Comm designs service to defend cyber attacks
Amid growing concerns of cyber attacks on Indian government and private computer networks, Tata Communications on Thursday said it has desi...
22 May, 2008, 02.44 PM IST
- Afilias in for dot domain protection
Hassled about failed attempts to access a website? Chances are that you may be at the receiving end of a `distributed denial of service att...
30 Jan, 2007, 03.29 AM IST