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TopicCyberattack

Topic: Cyberattack

Venezuela’s oil industry has been running day-to-day ops on phone calls & WhatsApp

A 15 December cyber attack shut down PDVSA’s system, leaving the company to run its business outside its own technological networks.

Stuxnet to WannaCry—5 notorious cyberattacks that targeted governments

An estimated 270,000 payroll records belonging to the UK’s armed forces were found to have been exposed in a data breach.

WazirX, Liminal Custody trade blame after crypto platform loses Rs 2,000 crore in cyber attack

Wallet infra provider Liminal Custody claimed none of its wallets hosted on WazirX fell prey to attack, while latter said wallet operated jointly with Liminal Custody was infiltrated.

Taiwan faces 5 million cyberattacks a day. Can it keep up with China’s sophisticated tactics?

Frontinet, a US-based cybersecurity firm, has found that Taiwan experienced just over half of the billions of malware attacks detected in the Asia-Pacific region in the first half of 2023.

As Apple alerts row heats up, IT minister Vaishnaw says govt looking into Oppn leaders’ claims

BJP says Apple should clarify about the alerts it has sent out to Opposition leaders, and rejected snooping allegations against the government as 'baseless and false'.

Ukraine blames Russia for most of over 2,000 cyberattacks in 2022

Senior Ukrainian official, Yuriy Schygol, who blamed the attacks on Russia, was speaking at a news conference that he said was itself delayed because of a cyberattack.

China cyberwar: Beijing’s dominance in IoT & smart technology & vulnerabilities for India

For India, the growing ubiquity of China-dependent IoT and smart technologies holds ramifications in both critical infrastructure and military domains.

Was AIIMS cyberattack inevitable? Doctors flagged risks soon after hospital went digital in 2016

Documents accessed by ThePrint show that the hospital’s administration had raised concerns to the government about data and systems safety soon after digitization.

Cybersecurity firm ‘sniffed out’ hacked Tiruppur hospital data on dark web. Now, it’s a ‘victim’ too

Bengaluru-based CloudSEK claimed last week that patient data from Sree Saran Medical Centre was being sold online. This week, the firm’s customer names & purchase orders got leaked.

Taiwan learnt to deal with China’s cyberattacks. India can take tips

Gone are the days when China’s cyber espionage campaigns were targeted at Tibetans in Dharamsala. We now live in a world where Chinese threats target India’s critical infrastructure.

On Camera

Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody

The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.