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Video surveillance giant Hikvision this week informed customers that it has patched a critical vulnerability affecting its Hybrid SAN and cluster storage products. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-28808, has been described by the vendor as an access control issue that can be exploited to obtain administrator permissions by sending specially crafted messages …

The threat actor known as APT36 or Transparent Tribe has been observed targeting the education sector in India with malicious Office documents distributing Crimson RAT. The group has been active since at least 2013, but according to a new advisory by SentinelOne, it is now shifting from attacking Indian military and government personnel …

On Thursday, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB)announced that it had established a task force on ChatGPT, a potentially significant first step towards a uniform policy on setting privacy regulations for artificial intelligence. “The EDPB decided to launch a dedicated task force to foster cooperation and to exchange information on possible enforcement …

StormWall projects a 170% increase in DDoS Attacks by the end of 2023 and urges businesses to implement mitigation strategies. Leading cybersecurity provider, StormWall, has released a comprehensive report on the state of Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS attacks) in Q1 2023. The report, based on an analysis of …

There has been a 53 per cent increase in ransomware incidents in India in 2022 when compared to 2021, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) said in a report. The CERT-In, in its India Ransomware Report released on April 13, said, in 2022, among various sectors, IT and ITeS …

A cyber attack group from Indonesia has been allegedly targeting 12,000 government websites in India, according to a cybersecurity alert issued by the Centre. The alert, accessed by Moneycontrol, was issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs’ Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) on Thursday. “It has been reported that websites of …

While an increasingly number of regulations have made the reporting of data breaches mandatory, a majority of IT professionals in the United States say they have been told to keep quiet about an incident, potentially running afoul of legal requirements. In a survey released last week, 42% of the more …

Western Digital has finally restored the My Cloud service after more than a week following a hack, but those behind the breach claim to have stolen customer data. The My Cloud service returned on Wednesday, 10 days after Western Digital officially reported an outage that made the online storage platform …

Hyundai reported a data breach that impacted car owners in Italy and France and people who booked their test drives. The company has warned that hackers accessed customers’ data. Hyundai owns roughly 3% of the market shares in Italy and France, selling nearly half a million vehicles a year in …

With improved protocol support, various bug fixes, and several enhancements, Wireshark has released version 4.0.5. On March 3, 2023, the most recent version of Wireshark 4.0.4 was made available; this is the second upgrade of this year. The open-source packet analyzer Wireshark is free to use. It is employed in developing software and …