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Can you use UPI abroad? Here’s what Indian travellers must know about charges, limits and security risksIndian travellers are increasingly using UPI abroad for convenient payments, but understanding its limitations and risks is crucial. While ...- Banks, telecom companies to chuck OTPs, adopt silent authenticationBanks and telecom companies are developing a silent authentication mechanism to combat SIM cloning and eSIM swaps. This background check ve...
- SIM swap attack: How hackers steal your OTPs and empty your bank account
- Don't join the DoT: India’s anti-fraud push is bold, but only half the battleThe Department of Telecom is taking strong action against cyber-fraud. New rules require messaging apps to link SIM cards to devices. The S...
- Why your WhatsApp Web may now log out every six hoursUnder the new rule, the DoT requires messaging apps, including WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal, to implement "SIM binding", i.e., linking of...
- How a SIM farm like the one found near the UN threatens telecom networksThe US Secret Service has taken down a large network of SIM farms in New York. This happened as world leaders gathered at the United Nation...
- Year ender 2024: Biggest cyberattacks in IndiaIn 2024, India faced a surge in cyberattacks, including BSNL's data breaches, Angel One's personal data leak, and WazirX's $235 million hac...
- Hackers breach BSNL again, second time in six monthsThis is the second time in six month where BSNL has suffered a data breach. Athenian Tech chief executive Kanishk Gaur told ET, the breach ...
- Key concerns about online payments and ways to overcome themWith rising frauds, a lack of robust infrastructure to detect or prevent such instances, and the absence of a redressal mechanism, concerns...
- 10 types of banking frauds in India customers should know aboutThe Reserve Bank of India has released a booklet to educate banking customers about digital payments-related frauds. The booklet explains h...
- SIM-card swap suspected in unauthorised transfer of ₹31 lakh from a Bengaluru firmThe business account of a small-scale industry in Peenya, that manufactures heat exchangers, was robbed of Rs 31 lakh overnight, in what is...
- Concerned over provisions of UIDAI's face authentication norms for telcos, says COAIA UIDAI source, however, sought to play down COAI's apprehensions saying that the authority's norms are aimed at ensuring security and inte...
- UIDAI announces phased rollout of face authentication with telcos from September 15The face recognition feature is aimed at tightening the security around issuance & activation of mobile SIMs.
- Consumers can safeguard mobile phones, private data from theft with government's unique identification numbersThe registry of unique identification numbers is a central system where carriers can share information on stolen devices and prevent them f...
- DoT plans cell for safeguarding consumers against theft of phones, data on themThe broad aim of the plan is to protect consumer interest, curtail counterfiet mobile phone market, discourage mobile phone theft, detect c...
- Government bans mobile handsets with fake, duplicate identity numbersGovernment has prohibited imports of all kind of mobile handsets with fake or duplicate unique identity numbers, a move that will help secu...
- China-made SIMs may make telecom and banking sectors vulnerable: National Security CouncilThis is important to restrain transmission of sensitive data outside territorial limits of India, said the NSC communication, which was rev...
- Beware of missed call to check SIM cloningNext time if you get a missed call starting with +92; #90 or #09, don't show the courtesy of calling back because chances are it would lead...
- Home min wants locally manufactured SIM cardsCurrently, SIM cards, which are used in mobile phones, are imported under the open general licence (OGL) from China and other low-cost mark...
- IT department to check tax-evaders with portable forensic labsTo outsmart tax evaders who resort to delete their financial data or hide it in password-protected devices during search operations, the I-...
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