40 countries will sign a pledge to stop paying ransoms demanded by cybercriminal groups at the International Counter-Ransomware Initiative summit in Washington, D.C. Anne Neuberger, Deputy National Security Adviser for Cyber and Emerging Technology at the White House, suggested that this initiative is a response to the increasing global threat …

In its Q2 2023 Global Ransomware Report, Corvus noted a significant resurgence in global ransomware attacks, which has continued through the third quarter. Now, with two months remaining in the year, the number of ransomware victims in 2023 has already surpassed what was observed for 2021 and 2022. If the …

The President of the Canadian treasury board, Anita Anand, announced yesterday (30 October) a ban on the use of the WeChat and Kaspersky suite of applications on government-issued mobile devices. The press release stated, the Government of Canada is committed to keeping government information and networks secure. We regularly monitor …

Details of 81.5 crore Indians linked to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) are reportedly being sold in India’s largest data leak case. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India’s top investigative agency, is likely to investigate the matter once ICMR files a complaint. A report found that someone, …

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company focusing on artificial intelligence, online advertising technologies, search engine technology, cloud computing, software, and consumer electronics. It has been referred to as “one of the world’s most valuable brands” and “one of the world’s most powerful companies”. Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) …

Three unpatched security flaws in the NGINX Ingress controller for Kubernetes have been revealed. These flaws have a high severity level and could be used by a malicious actor to steal secret credentials from the cluster. The vulnerabilities are as follows: CVE-2022-4886 (CVSS score: 8.8) – Ingress-nginx path sanitization can …

We all love snapping pics on our phones, right? They help us catch life’s fun, goofy, and sweet moments. But what if I told you that sometimes our phone cameras might see more than just smiles? I went on a snooping adventure online and found some stories that made me …

Internet services will face partial disruption in the country for around 20 hours on October 31 and November 2. This is because the country’s first submarine cable will be partially disconnected for an upgrade. The circuits through the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) submarine cable installed Cox’s …

Online fraud is on the rise. Every day a large number of people are falling victim to this fraud. Someone is losing crore money. Money is being extorted through phishing emails, fake job offers, cryptocurrency scams and fake phone calls. Sometimes the phone gets hacked just by revising the phone. …

Bangladesh System Administrators Forum (BDSAF) organized a day-long IT security conference titled “Cyber Security Symposium 2023”. Symposium was held on October 28, at “Brac In” auditorium on various important issues of information technology security and cyber awareness. Md. Shamsul Arefin, secretary of information and technology division, was the chief guest …