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WhatsApp Suspends Over 9.8 Million Accounts In India In June, Cites Harmful Activity
WhatsApp banned more than 98 lakh accounts in India during June, as part of its efforts to curb abuse and harmful activity on the platform, according to WhatsApp's latest India Monthly Report.
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"Beyond Gruesome": Actor Calls Out Youtuber Over Child Abuse, Case Filed
Telangana State Cyber Security Bureau on Sunday registered a First Information Report (FIR) against a YouTuber with regard to inappropriate comments on a child during a chat session.
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Police Case Against YouTube Channel, Others For Showing Child Sexual Abuse
The cyber cell of Maharashtra Police on Thursday registered a case against the operator of a YouTube channel and others for allegedly displaying "Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)" involving mothers and their minor children.
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Cyber Alert Issued Against 'Royal' Ransomware Virus That Targets Key Sectors, Seeks Bitcoin Payoffs
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team or CERT-In has stated in a latest advisory that this Internet spread ransomware sneaks in through phishing emails, malicious downloads, abusing RDP (remote desktop protocol) and other forms of social engineering.
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Woman Arrested For Abusive Facebook Comments On Devendra Fadnavis's Wife
A 50-year-old woman was arrested by the cyber police department on Tuesday for allegedly posting abusive and vulgar comments on the Facebook page of Amruta Fadnavis, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's wife.
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Amid Pegasus Scandal, Israel Reportedly Slashes List of Countries Which Can Buy Cyber Tech
Israel slashed its list of countries eligible to buy its cyber technologies following concern over possible abuses abroad of a hacking tool sold by Israeli firm NSO Group, Israel's Calcalist financial newspaper reported.
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Israel Cuts List Of Nations Buying Cyber Tech After Pegasus Row: Report
Israel slashed its list of countries eligible to buy its cyber technologies following concern over possible abuses abroad of a hacking tool sold by Israeli firm NSO Group, Israel's Calcalist financial newspaper reported on Thursday.
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Israeli Lawmaker Eyes Pegasus Export Curbs As France's Macron Convenes Cabinet
Israel's parliamentary review panel may recommend changes to defence export policy over high-profile allegations that spyware sold by Israeli cyber firm NSO Group has been abused in several countries, a senior lawmaker said on Thursday.
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Israel Sets Up Team Of Ministers To Examine Pegasus Scandal
Israel has set up a senior inter-ministerial team to look into growing allegations that spyware sold by an Israeli cyber firm has been abused on a global scale, news agency Reuters reported quoting an unnamed Israeli source today.
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Israel's National Security Council "Looking Into" Pegasus Spyware Allegations
Israel has set up a senior inter-ministerial team to "look into" proliferating allegations that spyware sold by a Israeli cyber firm has been abused on a global scale, an Israeli source said on Wednesday.
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Can India Catch Up to Global Standards of Digital Safety and Security?
The Internet connects over 2.5 billion users worldwide, offering opportunities to young people to connect, communicate, educate, and ultimately expand their horizons. In India, however, several socio-economic disparities along with other divisions, based on gender or race, affect equal access to and safe usage of digital platforms, widening the exi...
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CERT-In Says Mobile Banking Android Malware 'EventBot' Horsing Around in Cyberspace
"It is a mobile-banking Trojan and info-stealer that abuses Android''s in-built accessibility features to steal user data from financial applications, read user SMS messages and intercept SMS messages, allowing malware to bypass two-factor authentication," the CERT-In advisory said.
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Instagram Ramps Up Battle Against Bullying
Instagram on Tuesday added more weapons to battle cyber bullying, using artificial intelligence to scan photos for abusive content at the Facebook-owned service.
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India Ranked Fourth As Cyber Attacks On The Rise Globally: Report
India ranked fourth in the list of top 10 target countries for Web Application Attacks as bot-driven abuse and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continued to rise from November 2017 till April this year, Cloud delivery network provider Akamai Technologies said on Wednesday.
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2016 RBI Note Had Warned Banks About Tech Misused In Nirav Modi Fraud
Long before the Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam erupted, the Reserve Bank of India had cautioned banks about the abuse of the SWIFT interbank network, for "unauthorised transfer of funds". A circular put out by the central bank in August 2016 has emerged just after the government called the PNB fraud a result of "supervisory failure" at the central...
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WhatsApp Suspends Over 9.8 Million Accounts In India In June, Cites Harmful Activity
WhatsApp banned more than 98 lakh accounts in India during June, as part of its efforts to curb abuse and harmful activity on the platform, according to WhatsApp's latest India Monthly Report.
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"Beyond Gruesome": Actor Calls Out Youtuber Over Child Abuse, Case Filed
Telangana State Cyber Security Bureau on Sunday registered a First Information Report (FIR) against a YouTuber with regard to inappropriate comments on a child during a chat session.
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Police Case Against YouTube Channel, Others For Showing Child Sexual Abuse
The cyber cell of Maharashtra Police on Thursday registered a case against the operator of a YouTube channel and others for allegedly displaying "Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)" involving mothers and their minor children.
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Cyber Alert Issued Against 'Royal' Ransomware Virus That Targets Key Sectors, Seeks Bitcoin Payoffs
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team or CERT-In has stated in a latest advisory that this Internet spread ransomware sneaks in through phishing emails, malicious downloads, abusing RDP (remote desktop protocol) and other forms of social engineering.
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Woman Arrested For Abusive Facebook Comments On Devendra Fadnavis's Wife
A 50-year-old woman was arrested by the cyber police department on Tuesday for allegedly posting abusive and vulgar comments on the Facebook page of Amruta Fadnavis, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's wife.
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Amid Pegasus Scandal, Israel Reportedly Slashes List of Countries Which Can Buy Cyber Tech
Israel slashed its list of countries eligible to buy its cyber technologies following concern over possible abuses abroad of a hacking tool sold by Israeli firm NSO Group, Israel's Calcalist financial newspaper reported.
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Israel Cuts List Of Nations Buying Cyber Tech After Pegasus Row: Report
Israel slashed its list of countries eligible to buy its cyber technologies following concern over possible abuses abroad of a hacking tool sold by Israeli firm NSO Group, Israel's Calcalist financial newspaper reported on Thursday.
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Israeli Lawmaker Eyes Pegasus Export Curbs As France's Macron Convenes Cabinet
Israel's parliamentary review panel may recommend changes to defence export policy over high-profile allegations that spyware sold by Israeli cyber firm NSO Group has been abused in several countries, a senior lawmaker said on Thursday.
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Israel Sets Up Team Of Ministers To Examine Pegasus Scandal
Israel has set up a senior inter-ministerial team to look into growing allegations that spyware sold by an Israeli cyber firm has been abused on a global scale, news agency Reuters reported quoting an unnamed Israeli source today.
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Israel's National Security Council "Looking Into" Pegasus Spyware Allegations
Israel has set up a senior inter-ministerial team to "look into" proliferating allegations that spyware sold by a Israeli cyber firm has been abused on a global scale, an Israeli source said on Wednesday.
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Can India Catch Up to Global Standards of Digital Safety and Security?
The Internet connects over 2.5 billion users worldwide, offering opportunities to young people to connect, communicate, educate, and ultimately expand their horizons. In India, however, several socio-economic disparities along with other divisions, based on gender or race, affect equal access to and safe usage of digital platforms, widening the exi...
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CERT-In Says Mobile Banking Android Malware 'EventBot' Horsing Around in Cyberspace
"It is a mobile-banking Trojan and info-stealer that abuses Android''s in-built accessibility features to steal user data from financial applications, read user SMS messages and intercept SMS messages, allowing malware to bypass two-factor authentication," the CERT-In advisory said.
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Instagram Ramps Up Battle Against Bullying
Instagram on Tuesday added more weapons to battle cyber bullying, using artificial intelligence to scan photos for abusive content at the Facebook-owned service.
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India Ranked Fourth As Cyber Attacks On The Rise Globally: Report
India ranked fourth in the list of top 10 target countries for Web Application Attacks as bot-driven abuse and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continued to rise from November 2017 till April this year, Cloud delivery network provider Akamai Technologies said on Wednesday.
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2016 RBI Note Had Warned Banks About Tech Misused In Nirav Modi Fraud
Long before the Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam erupted, the Reserve Bank of India had cautioned banks about the abuse of the SWIFT interbank network, for "unauthorised transfer of funds". A circular put out by the central bank in August 2016 has emerged just after the government called the PNB fraud a result of "supervisory failure" at the central...
