Tag: Cybersecurity

Should the US ban TikTok? Can it? A cybersecurity expert explains the risks the app poses and the challenges to blocking it
26Mar By adminNo Comments
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Should the US ban TikTok? Can it? A cybersecurity expert explains the risks the app poses and the challenges to blocking it

[ad_1] TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 23, 2023, amid a chorus of calls from members of Congress for the federal government to ban the Chinese-owned video social media app and reports that the Biden administration is pushing for the company's sale.The federal government, along with many state and foreign governments and some companies, has banned TikTok on work-provided phones. This type of ban can be effective for protecting data related to government work. But a full ban of the app is another matter, which raises a number of questions: What data privacy risk does TikTok pose? What could the Chinese government do with data collected by the app? Is its content recommendation algorithm dangerous? And is it even possible to ban an ...
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France bans TikTok, Twitter from government staff phones
26Mar By adminNo Comments
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France bans TikTok, Twitter from government staff phones

[ad_1] France announced Friday it is banning the “recreational” use of TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and other apps on government employees' phones because of concern about insufficient data security measures.The move follows similar restrictions on TikTok in democratic countries amid fears about the popular video-sharing app's Chinese connections. But the French decision also encompassed other platforms widely used by government officials, lawmakers and President Emmanuel Macron himself. The French Minister for Transformation and Public Administration, Stanislas Guerini, said in a statement that 'recreational'' apps aren't secure enough to be used in state administrative services and ''could present a risk for the protection of data.”The ban will be monitored by France's cybersecurity age...
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Android users beware! Dangerous money-stealing malware RETURNS; Know how to stay safe
16Mar By adminNo Comments
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Android users beware! Dangerous money-stealing malware RETURNS; Know how to stay safe

[ad_1] Android users have been given a reason to worry as dangerous Xenomorph Android malware has made a comeback, endangering Android phones worldwide. The malware attracted attention last year when it was distributed on the Google Play Store with over 50000 installations and targeted as many as 56 different European banks. Now the same malware has made a return in a new avatar, aiming to target many more institutions than before.What is Xenomorph?According to cybersecurity and research firm ThreatFabric, Xenomorph is an Android banking Trojan which derives its name from another banking trojan known as Alien, a reference to Ridley Scott's famous franchise. It poses as different apps on the Google Play Store and was distributed via a dropper operation known as GymDrop. Last year, it po...
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Belgium bans TikTok from government phones after US, EU
11Mar By adminNo Comments
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Belgium bans TikTok from government phones after US, EU

[ad_1] Belgium is banning TikTok from government phones over worries about cybersecurity, privacy and misinformation, the country's prime minister said Friday, mirroring recent action by other authorities in Europe and the U.S.The Chinese-owned video sharing app will be temporarily prohibited from devices owned or paid for by the Belgium's federal government for at least six months, according to a post on Alexander de Croo's website. TikTok didn't respond immediately to a request for comment. Owned by China's ByteDance, the company has long maintained that it does not share data with the Chinese government and that its data is not held in China. TikTok unveiled new measures this week to ease concerns about protecting user data in Europe.But the European Union's three main institutions ...
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Online betting fraud: Noida cops arrest 17th suspect in Mahadev Book app scam
15Feb By adminNo Comments
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Online betting fraud: Noida cops arrest 17th suspect in Mahadev Book app scam

[ad_1] The Noida police on Friday said they have nabbed a man in connection with a major online betting fraud, taking the number of arrests in the case to 17. According to police, Sachin Soni, a native of Jhansi, was a key member of the gang that used the Mahadev Book betting app to dupe people to the tune of more than ₹4,000 crore. The gang lured people into placing bets through their app and gave them a surplus sum on their bets. But once a user placed a bet of bigger amount, they would take it all and would vanish, the police said. "Accused Sachin Soni was arrested from a flat in Golden Palms society in Sector 168 where he had been hiding for the past few days. One laptop, one smartphone, five forged Aadhar cards, and a house rent agreement have been seized from his possessi...
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Safer Internet Day: CERT-In and Koo App promote cybersecurity awareness
7Feb By adminNo Comments
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Safer Internet Day: CERT-In and Koo App promote cybersecurity awareness

[ad_1] Cyber crime is rampant and hundreds of thousands of people are affected on a daily basis by some kind of fraud or the other. In 2022, India saw over 13 lakh cyberattack incidents, making cybersecurity a key concern of all sectors. However, it need not be so. All it needs is to adopt a safer way to surf the Internet. Raising awareness about this are the Government of India and messaging app Koo. In a joint effort to promote online safety, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), the Government of India, and Koo have come together to raise awareness about cybersecurity attacks, frauds, and crimes on the occasion of Safer Internet Day observed every year on the first Tuesday in February 2023. The colla...
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Beware! Massive global hacking attack is on, here’s how to be safe
6Feb By adminNo Comments
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Beware! Massive global hacking attack is on, here’s how to be safe

[ad_1] Increasing cybercrime is a concern for not only individuals but also for governments. On Sunday, February 5, 2023, Italy's National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) issued a warning to organisations to take action to protect their systems after thousands of computer servers around the world were targeted by a ransomware hacking attack. Earlier, Italy's ANSA news agency reported that servers had been compromised in other European countries such as France and Finland as well as the United States and Canada, a report by Live Mint stated.As per reports, dozens of Italian organisations were likely to have been affected and many more had been warned to take action to avoid being locked out of their systems. In India too, several reports have revealed how people are hit by cyber attacks and ...
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French police apprehends suspect in Finnish therapy data hacking
4Feb By adminNo Comments
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French police apprehends suspect in Finnish therapy data hacking

[ad_1] French police apprehended on Friday a 25-year-old Finnish man suspected of breaching patient records of some 33,000 psychotherapy clients in Finland, the Finnish central criminal police said. Finland's National Bureau of Investigation had issued an international arrest warrant for the man believed to have stolen private records of the patients of a Helsinki-based psychotherapy centre. The suspect has denied any wrongdoing in the case. He is believed to have blackmailed patients and to have published some data online, including accounts of private and traumatic events, police said. Immediate measures have been initiated to extradite him to Finland, the police added. [ad_2] Source link
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US infiltrates big ransomware gang: ”We hacked the hackers”
27Jan By adminNo Comments
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US infiltrates big ransomware gang: ”We hacked the hackers”

[ad_1] The FBI quietly gained access to its control panel in July and was able to obtain software keys to decrypt the network of some 1,300 victims globally. The FBI and international partners have at least temporarily dismantled the network of a prolific ransomware gang they infiltrated last year, saving victims including hospitals and school districts a potential USD 130 million in ransom payments, Attorney General Merrick Garland and other US officials announced on Thursday. “Simply put, using lawful means we hacked the hackers,” Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said at a news conference. Officials said the targeted syndicate, known as Hive, operates one of the world's top five ransomware networks and has heavily targeted hospitals and other health care providers. The FB...
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Hackers Claimed to Breach a Police Vendor, Spilling Data Trove
26Jan By adminNo Comments
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Hackers Claimed to Breach a Police Vendor, Spilling Data Trove

[ad_1] Data allegedly from ODIN Intelligence illuminates its software and customers. The company says it’s working with law enforcement to investigate. ODIN Intelligence markets software to law enforcement agencies, but its operations are opaque. Its official address is a mailbox inside a UPS store. LinkedIn lists about a dozen employees, and ODIN's website contains only one sentence: “We help communities link homeless with resources; help protect citizens from child predators, and assist in locating missing persons.”Last week, the company published a notice saying that a hacking group claimed to have broken into its networks and stole gigabytes of data. About the same time, hackers provided a trove of documents — purportedly from ODIN Intelligence — to the Distributed Denial of Secre...
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