Tag: cybersecurity

TikTok, the popular social media platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has been under intense pressure from the U.S. government over the past few weeks. It now faces a Congressional bill, “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” which would force ByteDance to divest TikTok to avoid the ...

A major data leak of internal documents from Chinese cybersecurity firm i-Soon, also known as Anxun, has shed new light on the inner world of China’s cyberespionage and its state-backed hackers for hire. Among the documents shared online were contracts, marketing presentations, product manuals, client and employee lists, chat ...

This group, identified as an advanced persistent threat (APT) and active since at least November 2013, was first discovered and named “Bitter” by American security firm Forcepoint and “Manlinghua” by Chinese company Qihoo 360 in 2016.Over that time, the increasing exposure of Bitter’s activities has shed light on its ...

Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday inaugurated the two-day National Security Strategy (NSS) conference in Delhi and discussed issues ranging from terror and narco-financing, to cyber security, use of forensic science in investigations and, emergency preparedness for nuclear and radiological exigencies. Union home minister Amit Shah addresses the ...

NEW DELHI, Jul 24: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Monday called for collective efforts to deal with challenges emanating from cybersecurity at the Friends of BRICS meeting in Johannesburg. He highlighted that the gravity of cyber risks will increase exponentially with the advent of disruptive technologies such as ...

With mounting cyber attacks and cyber breaches on India’s civilian and military infrastructure by arch-rivals in the neighbourhood, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to convene a high-level meeting to review cybersecurity and data protection to make the critical structure more resilient to hybrid warfare. Cyber threat to India ...

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is creating tools for strategic guidance and training personnel necessary to support traditional war fighting disciplines, and is developing computer network operations (CNO) capability. And it uses cyber operations to target its other rivals. The Chinese academic community and hacker groups around the ...

Illegal hacking operatives, dubbed “hack-for-hire” companies, are operating across India and infiltrate emails and phones of VIPs and states for a fee paid by private investigators around the world, an undercover investigation has claimed on Sunday.‘The Sunday Times' and Bureau of Investigative Journalism conducted a sting operation to expose ...

Pakistani cybersecurity researcher Etizaz Mohsin was in a hotel room in Qatar when he unexpectedly discovered a technical vulnerability in its internet system that exposed the private information of hundreds of hotels and millions of guests worldwide. Mohsin told Al Jazeera he was “stunned” by what he uncovered late ...

The group that ran the Hindutva Watch handle on Twitter – which flagged instances of violence and bigotry from Hindu nationalist groups – had long been accustomed to being abused and trolled for content critical of the Indian government. But even they were stunned when the account, with nearly ...