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...
04 Jun, 2026, 12.40 AM IST
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...
03 Jun, 2026, 02.46 PM IST
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...
03 Jun, 2026, 12.22 PM IST
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 ...
02 Jun, 2026, 05.13 PM IST
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...
26 May, 2026, 07.58 AM IST
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...
12 May, 2026, 06.04 PM IST
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...
11 May, 2026, 02.49 PM IST
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...
10 May, 2026, 09.04 PM IST
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...
15 Apr, 2026, 07.20 PM IST
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...
31 Mar, 2026, 07.49 AM IST
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...
20 Mar, 2026, 09.07 AM IST
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...
01 Nov, 2023, 11.03 PM IST
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...
12 Oct, 2023, 01.06 AM IST
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...
02 Jan, 2023, 07.17 AM IST
- 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...
07 Aug, 2009, 09.35 PM IST
- 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.
07 Aug, 2009, 07.12 AM IST
- 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...
30 Jan, 2007, 03.29 AM IST