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After FC Barcelona, Real Madrid falls prey to Twitter hack
Shortly after breaking in to the social media account of Futbol Club Barcelona, the Ourmine hacking group breached the Twitter account of the Real...
Keep records of people posting online comments, Chinese govt. tells companies
In a major blow against privacy and continuing the crackdown against free speech on the internet, the Chinese government has instructed companies to keep...
Seven members of Trump’s cybersecurity team resign
As many as seven of the 27 members of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council have resigned from their offices. In a group resignation letter,...
Airtel partners with Symantec to offer cybersecurity solutions to Indian enterprises
Telecommunications services provider Airtel and cybersecurity solutions provider Symantec Corp. have joined hands to offer enterprises in India telco services combined with cybersecurity solutions....
Indian court puts right to privacy as fundamental
Addressing the privacy of billions of citizens, the Supreme Court of India has made a landmark judgement stating that Right of Privacy is a...
Black Sea incident: New frontier in cyberwarfare
Reports have emerged stating that Russia might be testing systems that can interfere with Global Positioning System (GPS) signals by overriding them with fake...
Nigerian man attacks 4000 companies single-handedly
According to a Check Point Research Team investigation, a Nigerian man attacked 4,000 companies in energy, mining, and construction sectors in several countries, including...
HBO’s social media handles compromised
The barrage of cyber attacks on HBO continues. Still recovering from the attack in July and subsequent leaks of “Game of Thrones” episodes, the...
To fight underrepresentation, scholarships for women galore Hacker Halted
EC-Council and IBM announced a scholarship program for women to attend EC-Council’s Hacker Halted security conference free of charge. Funded by IBM Security, the scholarship is...
Russia behind February malware attack, says Italian foreign ministry
The Italian foreign ministry recently confirmed Russia’s involvement in the hacking attack on government’s field offices in February. The ministry said that the malware...
