Millions of user accounts — more than four times as many as last year — were compromised in India this year according to a report by Netherlands-based VPN provider Surfshark.
Chandigarh-based cybersecurity firm CyberX9 said a vulnerable PNB internal server could have allowed in a hacker, and the bank fixed problem months after patch was available.
These computers are believed to contain data on India's security, citizens and important govt functionaries, including the PM, NSA and home minister, among others.
Indians need real privacy, not a loss of anonymity. Modi govt’s Personal Data Protection Bill worryingly proposes social media firms to verify user identity.
Most recent data breaches stem from stolen passwords. As digital platforms pile up gigabytes of data, cost of attacks for hackers has decreased significantly.
Global economy is under a new industrial transformation, with digital technology leading the change but India wants to address its own rising aspirations.
Mark Zuckerberg aims to make private messages private and ephemeral – meaning Facebook can’t read our messages, and the data doesn’t stick around for long.
The Modi govt first put all its eggs into the US basket when the unipolar moment was clearly over. It subsequently overcorrected, accommodating an aggressive China.
In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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