UN cybercrime pact to be signed in Hanoi raises hopes, concernsA new UN cybercrime treaty will be signed in Vietnam, aiming to fight global online crime. However, critics warn it could threaten human ri...
22 Oct, 2025, 10.07 AM IST
India, Israel to sign bilateral investment treaty this weekIsraeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's upcoming visit to India aims to strengthen economic ties, with the signing of a bilateral inves...
08 Sep, 2025, 08.15 AM IST
UN approves its first treaty targeting cybercrimeAfter three years of negotiations and a final two-week session in New York, members approved the United Nations Convention Against Cybercri...
09 Aug, 2024, 11.37 AM IST
UN cybercrime text faces new scrutiny from tech firms, rights groupsUN member states meet Monday seeking to finalize an international treaty on the fight against cybercrime, a text strongly opposed by an unl...
29 Jul, 2024, 09.20 AM IST
All about China's War Game Exercise that Left the U.S. Air Force WorriedThe US is concerned about growing cyber threats from China. The FBI Director has warned that there are multi-pronged threats against the US...
27 Jun, 2024, 12.28 AM IST
UnitedHealth hack could take months for full recoverySince its Change Healthcare unit was breached on February 21 by a hacking group called ALPHV, also known as "BlackCat", UnitedHealth has sa...
08 Mar, 2024, 05.56 PM IST
Relook parts of draft cybercrime treaty: Rights groups to UN panelET had reported on February 22 that the ad-hoc UN committee had, in a draft treaty on cybercrime, proposed that all member nations introduc...
27 Feb, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
India proposes 24x7 global communication link to curb cybercrimesThe proposal is part of India’s submission to a draft treaty on prevention of cybercrime, which is being deliberated upon by an ad-hoc comm...
22 Feb, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
Russian hackers targeted NATO, eastern European militaries - GoogleGoogle's Threat Analysis Group, in a report, did not say which militaries had been targeted in what Google described as "credential phishin...
31 Mar, 2022, 01.44 PM IST
Airbus offers to assemble Eurofighter in Switzerland to win $6.5 billion deal: ReportGermany, Italy, Spain and Britain, who make the Eurofighter, have also offered Bern sweeping political cooperation should it win the Swiss ...
27 Jun, 2021, 02.07 PM IST
Experts write to government on cyber fixesLast year, the government said it planned to release a new Cybersecurity Strategy to keep up with the changing nature of technologies, plat...
23 Jan, 2020, 08.26 AM IST
Tech policy think tanks write to govt urging stronger encryption to strengthen cyber security in IndiaTechnology policy think tanks and digital freedom advocates have written to the National Security Council Secretariat urging stronger encry...
22 Jan, 2020, 08.23 PM IST
New tool for cybercriminals: Apps that generate international phone numbersThere are apps that provide users the option to get a local number in a foreign country and make international calls.
07 Aug, 2019, 11.10 AM IST
Fake call alert: This new app lets cybercriminals generate international phone numbers to con peopleThe process of tracking such numbers is simple, but time-consuming.
07 Aug, 2019, 09.44 AM IST
Cabinet approves ratification of OECD's multilateral convention to check tax evasionThe Union Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the ratification of the convention.
12 Jun, 2019, 09.57 PM IST
Russia cancels strategic talks with 'unfriendly' US: envoyAnatoly Antonov said Washington's last-minute pullout from talks in Geneva at the end of February was an "unfriendly step.
02 Mar, 2018, 02.57 PM IST
US, China talks hit the wall on cybersecurity, maritime disputeTo Beijing's discomfort, Washington indicted five PLA officials in May for hacking into US companies.
10 Jul, 2014, 09.07 PM IST