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Cybersecurity: How is India faring?

The Facebook outage: What exactly happened?

While Facebook attributed the six-hour-long outage to faulty configuration changes at its servers, researchers have cited issues relating to a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) as the reason for the downtime.

View: Pegasus - assumptions, limitations and gaps

The recent public scrutiny and frenzy have primarily been due to simultaneous unverified media reports which claimed that the system was used to target activists, journalists, and several others. The frenzy was compounded by subsequent reports of around 50,000 numbers having been leaked that were allegedly targeted by Pegasus. We discuss below some of the techniques that the reports have relied upon.

Shed security state obsession

Business security as well as individual liberty both favour VPNs. America’s National Security Agency does not let VPNs hinder its work. Nor should India’s.

Microsoft says an outage with Microsoft 365 services resolved

Microsoft said in its status page that the Domain Name System (DNS) issue was resolved and that all Microsoft 365 services had returned to a healthy state.

India becomes largest IPv6 subscriber, seeks self-reliance in Internet domain

India ranked No. 1 in IPv6 with nearly 60% adoption, followed by Belgium (58%). Thanks to Reliance Jio's greenfield network that holds 91.8% of the IPv6 subscriber base, capturing second position to T-Mobile (92.3%).

Google stops biggest-ever DDoS cyber attack to date

With a DDoS attack, an adversary hopes to disrupt their victim's service with a flood of useless traffic. While this attack doesn't expose user data and doesn't lead to a compromise, it can result in an outage and loss of user trust if not quickly mitigated. Attackers are constantly developing new techniques to disrupt systems.

Anybody can download and play PUBG despite ban; government says it's aware of breaches

Earlier, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had issued advisories to the effect that none of the banned Chinese apps should be available in any form. It has also banned close to 47 clones that have come up in the weeks following its initial action in June.

DNS server to be launched soon to protect users from malware

The govt plans a new and robust platform in the wake of critical digital services being delivered online.

Internet users to experience network difficulties in the next 48 hours: Report

The maintenance work to be undertaken by the ICANN will help protect the internet's address book popularly known as the Domain Name System (DNS).

US set to hand over Domain Naming System to ICANN

More by circumstance than intention, the US has always had ultimate say over how the DNS is controlled - but not for much longer, the BBC reported today.