Fraudsters hit LinkedIn with recruitment scam wave amid tech layoffs New Delhi: Professional networking major LinkedIn has been hit by several state-of-the-art recruitment scams after massive tech layoffs, and fraudsters are cheating those sacked by offering them jobs that do not exist. According to the Financial Times, phony recruitments are being run by scammers pretending to be employers on Microsoft-owned ...

NCERT starts DIKSHA security audit after data breach reports The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has initiated a third-party security audit of the Diksha (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing) app, following reports of a breach of data belonging to the government-run platform. Diksha is a national platform for school education developed by Bengaluru-based EkStep Foundation. It is ...

US Consulate, CUTS International team up to mitigate cyber threats for SMBs The US Consulate and research and advocacy firm CUTS International have entered into a collaboration to jointly mitigate cyber threats for small and medium businesses. To this effect, the U.S. Consulate General Kolkata and CUTS International, in collaboration with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), and Arunachal ...

Cyber laxity: Goa govt posts department login IDs, passwords online PANAJI: In a move that has raised some eyebrows among cybersecurity experts and IT professionals, the administrative reforms department issued a circular with the login credentials of all the state government departments. The government circular, which was issued on February 8, asks every government department to upload their annual administration ...

CID blacklists 30,000 SIM cards used to con 1.27 lakh Gujaratis of Rs 815 crore AHMEDABAD: How many times have you been butted in by scammers with romance chat links, SMS ultimatums about power disconnections, and lucky draw and bitcoin offers that sound too good to be true? And how many times have you gone against your instincts and clicked ...

CFOs need to do resilience planning to fight continued shocks: HDFC CEO Keki Mistry HDFC Vice Chairman and CEO Keki Mistry said CFOs need to do resilience planning as there are shocks on continued basis. CFOs need to learn from experience of the recent crisis and prepare for the coming ones, Mistry said delivering the keynote address on CFOs Leading ...

LS Speaker Om Birla expresses concern about cyberbullying, drug abuse Gangtok (Sikkim) [India], February 24 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla urged for collective efforts to tackle the problem of cyberbullying and drug abuse. He expressed his concern during the inaugural ceremony of the Annual Zone III Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) India Region on Thursday. The 19th Annual Zone III ...

Data privacy, security challenges of digital world, G20 meet expected to address them: Jaishankar Pune, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said data security and data privacy are the biggest challenges of the digital world and issues connected to them are expected to be addressed during the G20 meeting. The EAM was addressing the ‘Festival of Thinkers’ organised by ...

6 new age cybersecurity threats to look out for in 2023: Neelesh Kriplani, CTO, Clover Infotech By- Neelesh Kriplani, As the world of technology continues to evolve, so do the security threats that come with it. Cybersecurity is an ever-growing field that is constantly changing and adapting to the latest threats. As we look ahead to 2023, here are 6 ...

India scores on innovation, harnessing internet benefits but modest progress on cybersecurity rail guards: Report New Delhi, Feb 24 (PTI) India fares well on parametres such as innovation and harnessing benefits of internet, but still has ground to cover when it comes to protection against cybercrime and invasion of privacy, according to a latest report. Without an exclusive cybersecurity law, ...