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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...
What is swatting and why are U.S. schools facing deadly swatting attacks in 2025?Swatting is no longer just a shocking internet prank—it has become a real threat to schools, campuses, and communities across the U.S. In 2...
Telecom gear sales under PLI scheme top ₹68,700 cr: DoT secretary Neeraj MittalIndia's telecom PLI scheme has achieved ₹68,700 crore in sales, including ₹13,007 crore in exports, within three and a half years. The sche...
Mobile users can expect relief from 'spoof international calls'Hoax international calls originate outside the country, but cyber criminals manipulate the calling line identity (CLI) to make such calls a...
Govt directs telcos to block incoming international spoofed callsThe government directed telecom operators to block incoming international spoofed calls displaying Indian mobile numbers to prevent cyber-c...
DoT, telcos develop new mechanism to block spoof overseas calls masquerading as Indian numbersThe Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and mobile operators have developed a system to detect and block spoofed international calls tha...
Warren Buffett says AI may be better for scammers than society: he's seen howBuffett told the throngs he recently came face to face with the downside of AI. And it looked and sounded just like him. Someone made a fak...
Warren Buffett says AI may be better for scammers than society. And he's seen howWarren Buffett cautioned the tens of thousands of shareholders who packed an arena for his annual meeting that artificial intelligence scam...
Deepfakes a ticking bomb for video KYCs; Indian startups cut 28,000 jobs in brutal 2023Nithin Kamath, the chief executive of Zerodha, one of India’s largest stockbrokers, took to social media to post a deepfake image of himsel...
Elizabeth, the queen who moved with a changing worldA dignified, dependable figure who reigned longer than any other British monarch, Elizabeth helped steer the institution into the modern wo...
Founders keepers at IPO-bound startups; govt differs with RBI on cryptoSeveral startup founders whose firms are debuting on the stock markets in 2021 are being wooed by their companies' boards with increased st...
DRDO gives anti-drone tech demo to armed forces after attack on Jammu Air Force baseThe system has a detection capability of up to 4 km with ‘soft kill’ options by way of radio frequency jamming that targets disabling the c...
Citizen Trump: What will Donald Trump do after White House? President's next steps explainedIn the near term and possibly longer, Trump’s post-presidential options will be circumscribed by the fallout over his Jan. 6 speech egging ...
Sumit Gupta: For whom the BellTroxLittle-known Delhi firm BellTroX helped clients spy over a period of seven years.
US files lawsuits against call centres, mostly from India, for making fake robocalls to AmericansIn each case, the Department of Justice sought an order immediately halting the defendants' transmission of unlawful robocall traffic. A fe...
UK, India police shut down Kolkata call centres in major online fraud probe"These raids and arrests mark the successful culmination of a 4-year operation. Working with Indian authorities and Microsoft, we have stop...
Why Trump needs to modify his campaign promise: Making America Grate AgainDonald Trump is voicing the angst and anger of Middle America – particularly the Rust Belt – that has lost its mojo.
The comedy business boom: How comedians in India have learned to make big moneyIndians are finally learning to split their sides and a clutch of entertainers are mushrooming across multiple platforms to provide those b...
- Hackers now break into the SMS universe
After e-mails and websites, SMS on mobile phones is the latest hot target of hackers. DoT planning to block overseas messages which don’t c...