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Following is a list of companies and organisations that have reported being hit by cyber attacks.

Hackers scour voting machines for election bugs

Hackers crammed into a crowded conference room for the rare opportunity to examine and attempt to hack some 30 pieces of...

29 July 2017 7:46 AM IST

Russia, which has denied hacking U.S. systems, has been accused of interference in the U.S. presidential election by hacking American political sites and email accounts. (Photo: Representational Image)

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Computer hack sets off 156 emergency sirens across Dallas

The breach in the city of 1.6 million people was believed to have originated in the area.

10 April 2017 8:21 AM IST

Researchers discovered that scanning tools such as NMap and Shodan can quickly spot those exposed speakers.

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Bose speakers found vulnerable to remote hacking

Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered how were Sonos and Bose's internet-connected speakers remotely hacked.

30 Dec 2017 4:58 PM IST

The hacker believed somebody had to stand up to those spreading hate (File Photo)

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Pay attention! your smartphone sensors can reveal your PIN to hackers

Instruments in smartphones such as the gyroscope and proximity sensors represent a potential security vulnerability,...

29 Dec 2017 6:36 PM IST

Elf Bowling was shared massively amongst the computer-using crowd through email in the late 90s.

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Fake news destroyed this fun Christmas game in the late 90's

NVision Design's Elf Bowling was a viral game in 1999 but was brought down by fake news.

28 Dec 2017 7:05 PM IST

Overall, the smartphone shipments in India grew 18 per cent annually in 2016 compared to the global smartphone market, which grew 3 per cent. (Representational image)

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Smartphone apps may be secretly stealing your data: study

Smartphone apps that we regularly use are mining our data by secretly colluding with each other, a new study warns.

4 April 2017 1:43 PM IST

Mirai took advantage of poor security protocols in IoT devices around the world.

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Mirai botnet came into existence to gain 'advantage in Minecraft'

A US court ruled out Minecraft as the major reason for the Mirai botnet's existence.

17 Dec 2017 4:52 PM IST

Brute force attack is when hackers repeatedly try to gain access to systems using a range of different passwords.

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Cybersecurity is one of top five business risks: Survey

81 per cent of the organisations have cybersecurity budgets of less than 10 per cent of total planned budgets.

15 Dec 2017 10:13 PM IST

$\Nomophobia\ or smartphone separation anxiety is the feelings of discomfort or anxiety caused by the unavailability of a mobile device (Photo: AFP)$ Newsmakers

Snowden unveils phone app, Haven, to spy on spies

Snowden says it's an open-source tool designed for human rights activists and other people at risk.

25 Dec 2017 8:00 AM IST

In order to test the boundaries of online storage, this man uploaded live webcam porn clips to the servers.

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New mobile Trojan mines cryptocurrency, performs DDos attacks

Loapi has a complex modular architecture that allows it to perform almost limitless actions on a compromised device.

21 Dec 2017 12:03 PM IST

Most people browse adult content behind the doors. And to make it even private, people use the browsers incognito mode so that their browsing history isnt saved on the PC.

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Porn website will now protect your identity, hide your kinky fantasies

With the new encryption, your viewing habits will now be shielded from prying eyes.

1 April 2017 12:15 PM IST

The fact is that a cache of cyber weapons was said to have been stolen from the NSA by the same collective behind the WannaCry ransomware that created the biggest-ever extortion racket to hit the Internet.

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Experts rush to Mumbai port after cyber attack

The ministry of shipping said National Cyber Security Coordinator Gulshan Rai was rushed to Mumbai to assist the...

29 Jun 2017 7:05 AM IST