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Banking Industry’s Existing Security Flaws – Are Banking Consumers Secured?
Last week, hackers targeted Cosmos Bank, based in Pune, in a multi-pronged attack to transfer over Rs 94 crore over multiple days to foreign bank accounts. Hackers used 12000 ATM transactions spread across 28 countries to withdraw INR 780 Million between 3PM and 10 PM IST on Saturday.
Read more on The Proche
Newly Discovered Android Malware Stealing Data from Messaging Applications WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook
A new Android spyware family named as BusyGasper which is distributed by unknown threat actors that contains unique spy implant with stand-out features such as device sensors listeners, motion detectors. Apart from this, BusyGasper capable of exfiltrating data from messaging applications such as WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook along with keylogging capabilities.
Read more on GB Hackers
WhatsApp Backups On Google Drive Are Not Encrypted, Open To Hackers
We all know very well that with more than 1.5 billion active users and 60 billion messages sent daily, the well-known instant messaging application, of course, WhatsApp dominates and is one of the most used instant messaging services. However, now according to the latest reports, the well-known and the most used instant messaging application, of course, WhatsApp recently notified its users to draw attention to the fact that both messages and multimedia content, which are backed up to the tech giant Google’s servers, will not be encrypted.
Read more on Tech Viral
Draft data protection bill: Caste clause may trip Indian startups & tech firms
India’s draft data protection bill has a ‘caste’ googly for Indian firms and startups, which could prove to be challenging to abide by, according to several policymakers. Caste has been categorized as sensitive personal data under the draft law. This means users need to be given explicit notice while companies collect their data.
Read more on CISO by Economic Times
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