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Seamless compliance is the NEED of the hour to avoid penalization

Rise in cyber-attacks, data breaches, and remote access to sensitive data during the pandemic has forced the regulatory authorities to enforce stringent norms on organizations and their data. The constituents of these norms were to design a robust cybersecurity policy, remote access management policy, user identification, authorization policy, and data safeguarding policy. Additionally, due to some organizations leaking customer data to third party for monetary gains, the regulatory authority pushed the envelope even further. Policies such as GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and India’s own GDPR-equivalent PDPB…

Illegal VoIP exchange network busted at Vadodara.

A JioFi router, WiFI router, CPU, and other computer hardware and software, worth Rs 46750, have also been seized The Vadodara city police said that the accused had forged computer source documents and illegally used a Postpaid Primary Rate Interface (PRI) line for VoIP call routing, in violation of the rules of the Directorate of Telecom (DoT). The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and Vadodara Special Operations Group (SOG) Saturday jointly busted a network of illegal VoIP exchange in Vasana area of Vadodara and arrested one of the…

Cyber scams: This is how hackers use credential stuffing to hack multiple accounts

Password re-use is why cybercriminals use a trick called credential stuffing to try to turn a hack that worked on one account into a hack that will work on another. After all, if they know that one of your accounts was protected by yjCMth15SU,atTWT?, it costs almost nothing in time or effort to see if any of your other accounts use the same password, or one that’s obviously related to it, giving the crooks a two-for-the-price-of-one attack. (By “obviously related” we mean that if the crooks acquire…