Monthly Archives: October 2016

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DDOS Attack on Dyn DNS causing major web sites inaccessible

A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against DynDNS is causing many major websites inaccessible which include Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, New York Times, Boston Globe, PlayStation Network and more reportedly inaccessible. DDOS stands for Dedicated Denial of Service and this occurs when a website gets more hits than it can handle. One way of attacking [...]

October 21st, 2016|Security NEWS|

ATM Cards of Indian based Banks Hacked, 3.2 Million Cards Affected

SBI, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, YES Bank and Axis Bank were among the worst. About 2.6 million affected cards are reportedly on the Visa and Mastercard platform, while 600,000 are on RuPay Banks in India will either replace or ask users to change the security codes of as many as 3.2 million debit cards in [...]

October 20th, 2016|Cyber Crime, Security NEWS|

TalkTalk is fined £400,000 after 150,000 customer details were compromised in 2015

The Information Commissioner's Office issued the fine – the largest ever for a data protection incident – to the company following an investigation after it found it was easy for hackers to access customer data. Investigators from the ICO found that hackers were able to get into TalkTalk's systems "with ease" and take advantage of [...]

Dropbox Hacked Accounts are now available for Download!

68 Million Drop Box accounts that were hacked in 2012, are leaked iin 2016 and went for sale on Darknet Last month. It is now available for free download. Dropbox, the online storage platform has suffered a massive blow back in August when the company learned that over 60 million of its user accounts got [...]

October 4th, 2016|Cyber Crime, Security NEWS|

India Today Magazine Recognized Pavankumar Bolisetty, as “World – renowned Cyber Security Expert”

Pavankumar Bolisetty's Interview with India Today Magazine, which is published on October 03, 2016.

October 3rd, 2016|news|