The preparation to bring 6G in telecom technology in India has intensified. Ashwini Vaishnav, Minister for Railways, Communications, Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India on Monday launched a new alliance on 6G. This alliance will work towards the development of new telecom technologies and 6G in India. India wants …
Read More »Over 300,000+ Fortinet Firewalls are Vulnerable to a Critical RCE Flaw
Hundreds of thousands of FortiGate firewalls are vulnerable to a critical security issue identified as CVE-2023-27997, almost a month after Fortinet released an update that addresses the problem. The vulnerability is a remote code execution with a severity score of 9.8 out of 10 resulting from a heap-based buffer overflow problem in FortiOS, …
Read More »Apple to Permanently Delete My Photo Stream Photos in July
All iPhone users need to act fast as Apple is bringing a major change to the photos feature in July, NY Post report. The tech giant announced that it will permanently retire the My Photo Stream album next month which stores pictures taken in the last 30 days automatically. ALSO READ: Decrypter …
Read More »Decrypter released for Akira ransomware
Akira ransomware first appeared in 2017. It targeted video folders and encrypted the files without leaving any ransom notes. The encrypted files had the extension “.akira”. Researchers have been working on decrypting the files affected by Akira ransomware, and they have finally made a breakthrough. Researchers at Avast have found …
Read More »India publishes “Information Security Practices for Government Entities”
India is fast becoming one of the world’s largest connected nations – with over 80 Crore Indians (Digital Nagriks) presently connected and using the Internet and cyberspace – and with this number is expected to touch 120 Crores in the coming few years. The Digital Nagriks of the country are …
Read More »Google to block news in Canada
Google and Facebook have announced plans to block Canadian news on their platforms in response to a new law that would require them to pay local news publishers. The law, called Bill C-18 or the Online News Act, was passed by the Canadian government last month. It would force online …
Read More »MITRE releases new list of top 25 most dangerous software bugs
MITRE, a non-profit organization that provides research and development in the areas of cybersecurity and information assurance, has released its list of the top 25 most dangerous software weaknesses. The list is based on data from the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database, which is a repository of known security …
Read More »Submarine Cables at Growing Risk of Cyber-Attacks
Insikt Group research examines the complex and dynamic risk environment of submarine cables, the information superhighways that underpin the global economy and facilitate worldwide telecommunications. The rapid expansion of the submarine cable network in the 21st century, driven by data demands, cloud computing, and the needs of hyperscalers like Amazon, …
Read More »Ireland: Draconian law to make data protection procedures confidential
Ahead of a discussion in the Oireachtas (Irish parliament) today on a proposed amendment to a bill that would allow the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) to label all matters before it as confidential, Rasha Abdul-Rahim, Programme Director at Amnesty Tech, said: “The government’s attempt to allow the Irish Data …
Read More »CISA orders to patch iPhone bugs abused in spyware attacks
Today, CISA ordered federal agencies to patch recently patched security vulnerabilities exploited as zero-days to deploy Triangulation spyware on iPhones via iMessage zero-click exploits. The warning comes after Kaspersky published a report detailing a Triangulation malware component used in a campaign it tracks as “Operation Triangulation.” Kaspersky says it found …
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