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CBSE retains COEMPT for answer-sheet scanning, shifts data to its own serversWhen asked about whether COEMPT will be able to scan answer sheets despite its track record, the official said, "They scanned 40 crore page...
CBSE detects 3.8 mln malicious packets targeting revaluation portal, attack thwartedThe CBSE re-evaluation portal experienced a major cyberattack with millions of malicious packets. Security systems successfully blocked num...
CBSE clarifies re-evaluation payments, says portal withstands cyberattack attemptCBSE has clarified its online portal for Class XII answer sheet verification and re-evaluation. Students can use various payment methods li...
Claude, other AI tools used to breach CBSE portals: IIT PanelAI tools like Claude were used to find vulnerabilities in CBSE's on-screen marking portal, revealing the vendor's inadequate security knowl...
CBSE says 40,000 students complete re-evaluation process without issues, portal open from June 2 to 6The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has launched a portal for Class 12 students to verify scanned answer books and request re-e...
Health insurance company denies claim over father’s alleged alcohol history; son fights back and wins Rs 6 lakhA software engineer's father's health insurance claim was denied by HDFC ERGO due to an alleged alcohol history. The insurer repudiated the...
CBSE portal withstands cyberattack that generated 1.5 million hits in 2 minutes; 16,000 students applyThe CBSE re-evaluation portal found itself under siege as cybercriminals unleashed a barrage of attacks, flooding the system with millions ...
700,000 green card seekers in limbo; applying anew from home country to be challengingSome 540,000 family-based and around 170,000 employment-based green card applications are currently pending with the US Citizenship and Imm...
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...
No parity between Agniveers, regular soldiers on pensionary benefits: Centre to HCThe Union government has told the Bombay High Court that Agniveers are different from regular soldiers. This means families of deceased Agn...
War without borders: The rise of cyberattacks beyond the battlefieldCyber conflict has escalated beyond borders following US-Israeli strikes on Iran, with hacktivists and state-backed actors launching global...
Sweden thwarted 2025 pro-Russian cyber attack on thermal power plantSweden stopped a Russian-linked cyber attack on a power plant in mid-2025. The Swedish Security Service identified the group. The attack ai...
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...
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...
AP news site hit by apparent denial-of-service attackThe Associated Press (AP) news website experienced an outage that appeared to be consistent with a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, causing...
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...
Russia targets critical infrastructure in drone attacks on Kyiv and its regionBy 3 a.m. local time (0100 GMT), Ukraine's air defence systems destroyed 16 air objects above Kyiv, the city's military administration said...
- Hacking of a new kind: Denial-of-service attack
The bad guys' main weapons in such an attack are "botnets," or networks of "zombie" personal computers they have infected with a virus. Saf...
- How a denial-of-service attack works
The bad guys' main weapons in such an attack are "botnets," or networks of "zombie" personal computers they've infected with a virus.
- 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...