data security

From Jan 1, both debit and credit cards have to be tokenised. The RBI has mandated that from January 1, 2022, “no entity in the card transaction or payment chain, other than the card issuers and card networks, should store the actual…

Over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries had their data exposed, 6 million Indians among them. A low-level hacker publicly posted the personal details of over 500 million Facebook users on the internet in a forum. The…

Govt Officials Start Using 'Sandes', A Whatsapp Alternative For More Privacy, Data Security Some government officials started using a desi alternative to WhatsApp called Sandes, which could change the game for WhatsApp, according to a…

The Indian government now plans to direct its attention towards several fintech apps with Chinese links. Chinese organizations/apps/companies are gaining increasing speculations of data security and privacy breaches as progressively in…

Paytm Mall's Database Hacked! Ransom Demanded By Hackers To Release Data; But Paytm Says All Is Good We have covered a plethora of stories on cyber breach and data security hacks. A burgeoning value of such data breaches and cyber…

Till now, every Aadhaar hack news we reported was a concern about data privacy of Indian citizens, and how the data can be manipulated for any illegal usage. But now, the issue is different: The concern has now translated into horror.

The biggest, and the strongest statement which has come out from TRAI in recent years: User data belongs to the users, and not the companies!

When social media giant Facebook gets involved in an incidence regarding a massive data leak affecting 87 million users, shared with a British data analytics company Cambridge Analytica, it is natural for users to lose sleep on this topic.

Wall Street Journal has claimed that Google is still reportedly allowing the users to access Gmail accounts. These are the third-party app developers who have access to scan through Gmail accounts.