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You have heard of State-Sponsored Hackers, but ever heard of Hacktivists? Know about these 10 types of cyber hackersExtremely skilled at handling computer software and hardware, hackers are categorised into various types depending on their intent and purp...
'Seriously concerned': Quad joint statement flags water cannons, blocked ships in South and East China SeasIndia, US, Japan, and Australia foreign ministers met in New Delhi. They voiced serious concerns over the South China and East China Seas. ...
Germany plans 'active cyberdefence' as online attacks riseGermany is developing active cyberdefence to counter increasing online attacks. New laws will allow security services to strike back at att...
Universities around the world scramble after cyberattack disrupts student portalsA significant cyberattack on the Canvas learning platform has disrupted academic operations at numerous universities across the US, Austral...
Canvas Hack: Why are students grateful and happy as massive outage leaves universities across US strandedMajor US universities, including Harvard and Stanford, experienced a Canvas platform outage on May 7, 2026, following a cyberattack claimed...
‘Pay or Leak’: How ShinyHunters hacked into Instructure’s Canvas platform leaving universities across US cluelessA major cyber attack by ShinyHunters has crippled Instructure Canvas, the learning platform used by several universities including Harvard ...
Canvas hacked, outage, down, data breach: When will Canvas be back up after ShinyHunters threaten to release stolen dataShinyHunters group warned that it would release all stolen data of Canvas if schools did not make contact by May 12. The message included a...
Data heist of the century? Hacker claims to steal top-secret files from China supercomputer - data up for saleThe China supercomputer data breach is shaking global cybersecurity circles with one shocking number. More than 10 petabytes of allegedly s...
Bengaluru faces several challenges related to cyber security, mobile malware: Karnataka Home MinisterStating that Synergia conclave provides a holistic perspective of human security which is extremely important, the Home Minister said, "We ...
CERT-In cautions internet users against Ransomware 'Akira' attackThe agency is the central technology arm to combat cyber attacks and guards the cyber space against phishing and hacking assaults and simil...
AIIMS cyber attack took place due to improper network segmentation: Govt in RSIn a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Chandrasekhar said that following the reporting of the cyber-incident by AIIMS, the Cert In probe re...
Tharoor raises AIIMS cyber attack in LS, asks govt to ensure protection of citizens' sensitive personal dataRaising the matter of urgent public importance in Lok Sabha, Tharoor said the recent cyber attacks on the IT servers of AIIMS-Delhi had res...
Seqrite predicts increased ransomware attacks on healthcare and pharmaceutical sector in 2021umerous hospitals, COVID-19 research firms, and pharma companies have fallen victim to ransomware in the last quarter of ‘20, making it nec...
Food major Haldiram's attacked by ransomware, hackers demanded $7,50,000 for decryptionIndian food major Haldiram’s suffered a Ransomware attack on its servers by hackers who encrypted all their files, data, applications and s...
In times of Covid, firms rush to get cybersecurity coverLeading insurance companies have introduced identity theft, cyber bullying, malware intrusion and cyber extortion in their policies and sai...
Now buy cyber insurance policy for Rs 3 a dayThe policy offers comprehensive protection against cyber risks and frauds carried out from any device and from any location worldwide.
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance launches Cyber Safe Policy for individualsBesides financial loss, the policy also provides coverage for expenses incurred on counselling services treatment, claim for damages agains...
Maharashtra police lodges case against "unknown persons" in ransomware attackAccording to the complaint, Deshpandey's computer was taken over by the ransomware and money was demanded for the same.
Will Indian companies take steps to contain cyber threats in 2016?Experts say that the frequency and ferocity of cyberattacks will only go up in 2016, as economic progress invariably attracts more such pre...
- UK target of major cyber attacks: Britain's spy chief
Writing in the Times, he said sensitive data on government computers had been targeted, along with defence, technology and engineering firm...