Hacking
US government not upfront about hackers targeting elections, so Congress relies on tech firms for alerts
With the Trump administration blocking what Congress learns about election threats, private companies are called upon to fill the breach.
Young group of hacker pals carried out Twitter attack, not Russia: NYT
The paper interviewed four people who took part in the hacking, who shared logs and screenshots to back up their statements of what happened
Govt seeks info from Twitter on Indian users affected by recent hack
CERT-In has also asked Twitter if affected users have been informed about unauthorised access to their Twitter accounts.
Not just the US election, even critical infrastructure faces rising foreign hacking threat
Virtual war games are being conducted to sharpen the US Cyber Command’s ability to counter online threats.
Websites taken down, police radio radio disrupted amid Black Lives Matter protests in US
There were interruptions to police radio frequencies in the last weekend of May as despatchers tried to direct responses to large protests.
Zoom will enhance security on free accounts too, firm says in deal reached on New York investigation
The company also agreed to conduct regular risk assessment and software code reviews to detect vulnerabilities.
Only paid Zoom users can opt not to have Zoom calls routed through China, free users can't choose
Amid concerns over information passing through China where it might be subject to snooping, users of the free app have no such protection
After Zoom gets hacked, Government issues advisory cautioning staff against using third-party apps
Stick to videoconferencing solutions provided by the government's National Informatics Centre, the advisory says
Zoom introduces security measures to ensure there is no more Zoombombing
Last week’s embarrassing hacking of official group calls by naked men exposed the lack of security in the videoconferencing web app
Warning! SpiceJet confirms data breach of 1.2 million passenger details
A security researcher gained access to one of the airline's systems by brute-forcing an easily-guessable password.