UK watchdog fines consumer credit rater Equifax $13.4 million for role in cyber breachThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said that in 2017 Equifax's parent company, Equifax Inc in the United States, was subject to one of t...
13 Oct, 2023, 05.14 PM IST
Australia mulls tougher cybersecurity laws after data breachCybersecurity Minister Clare O'Neil told Australian Broadcasting Corp. the hack was an "unprecedented theft of consumer information in Aust...
26 Sep, 2022, 05.26 PM IST
US government agencies including Treasury dept hacked; Russia a possible culpritThe apparent conduit for the Treasury and Commerce Department hacks - and the FireEye compromise - is a hugely popular piece of server soft...
14 Dec, 2020, 08.44 AM IST
TikTok’s huge data harvesting prompts security concernsTikTok starts collecting data the minute you download the app. It tracks the websites you’re browsing and how you type, down to keystroke r...
16 Jul, 2020, 08.57 AM IST
A 77-year-old former Supreme Court judge has Google and Amazon very tenseSrikrishna is leading the effort to draft new data-privacy laws that will regulate how tech giants from the US operate in the nation of 1.3...
11 Jun, 2018, 10.22 AM IST
New laws will help build cyber resilience: Bruce SchneierNew laws are the only thing that will incentivize companies to look at security as more of blended-in rather than bolted-on said Bruce.
28 May, 2018, 12.31 PM IST
Cybersecurity for novices has UK firm trouncing Silicon ValleySophos’s products are aimed at mid-market businesses with up to 5,000 employees, but also include very small companies that are “playing ca...
15 Dec, 2017, 03.25 PM IST
Following Uber, Zomato data breach, ethical hacker Anand Prakash has the key to avoid the nextAll of 24, Prakash has crossed an enviable list of milestones for an entrepreneur his age, including being ranked consistently among the to...
06 Dec, 2017, 12.51 PM IST
New Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi keeps finding horrors at every turnSomehow, the new chief executive officer keeps finding more horrors at every turn. The latest is a cyberattack Uber had been concealing sin...
24 Nov, 2017, 12.09 AM IST
Uber concealed hack that exposed 57 million people's dataThis week, the ride-hailing firm ousted its chief security officer and one of his deputies for their roles in keeping the hack under wraps,...
22 Nov, 2017, 08.24 AM IST
The measurability riddle: How much money should you put in cyber security?Today, there is much fear-mongering on cyber security. Do you really need it? Not all companies need to have the highest levels of cyber se...
07 Nov, 2017, 01.46 PM IST
Paying on mobile phone is not as safe as you may thinkBreaches like Equifax that happened in US have proven that payment data are not just with processors but also with third parties like credi...
28 Oct, 2017, 03.05 PM IST
How India Inc is losing its cybersecurity warCyber experts say what makes Indian industry vulnerable is changing threat profile due to resource rich nation states now targeting compani...
14 Oct, 2017, 07.29 AM IST
All 3 billion accounts hacked in 2013 data theft: YahooThe news expands the likely number and claims of class action lawsuits by shareholders and Yahoo account holders, they said.
04 Oct, 2017, 06.55 AM IST
Equifax suffered a hack 5 months earlier than disclosed dateThe revelation of a March breach will complicate the company’s efforts to explain a series of unusual stock sales by Equifax executives.
19 Sep, 2017, 11.39 PM IST
Equifax says CIO, Chief Security Officer to exit after hackThe firm’s chief information and chief security officers are retiring immediately, the Atlanta-based company said on Friday in a statement ...
18 Sep, 2017, 01.10 AM IST
Equifax faces multibillion-dollar lawsuit over hackData revealed included Social Security numbers, addresses, driver’s licence data, and birth dates. Some credit card information was also pu...
08 Sep, 2017, 11.08 PM IST