Cybersecurity

September 16, 2024 3:26 PM

Country’s progress is impossible without cybersecurity: Home Minister Amit Shah

Terming cybersecurity an integral part of national security, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said that the country's progress is not possible without ensuring cybersecurity. Addressing at the 1st Foundation Day celebration of the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), the Union Home Minister in Delhi said that cybercrime has no boundary, hence all stakeholders should come together to deal with this menace. "Without cybersecurity, the development of the nation is impossible at th...

July 24, 2024 4:26 PM

CrowdStrike says bug in quality control process led to botched update

A CrowdStrike software update that crashed computers globally last week hitting services from aviation to banking and healthcare was caused by a bug in the U.S. cybersecurity firm's quality control mechanism, the company said on Wednesday. Friday's outage happened because CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor, an advanced platform that protects systems from malicious software and hackers, contained a fault that forced computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system to crash and show the "Blue Scre...

July 16, 2024 4:31 PM

Google deal for ‘hot market’ cyber firm Wiz would bolster cloud security

If Alphabet's Google is successful in its effort to buy cloud security company Wiz, it would bolster its cloud security offerings for large organisations, a hotspot for hackers, and help it take on cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft, experts said. Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire Wiz, a person familiar with the matter said on Sunday, in an up to $23 billion deal that would be Google's most expensive acquisition and provide it with cybersecurity products that defend against ransomware gan...