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RBI tokenisation

18 Dec 2021

RBI restricts customers from sharing card details for online payments

You can either provide your complete 18-digit card number each time you pay online, or you can employ tokenisation. From January 1, 2022, no firm in the card transaction or payment chain, other than card issuers and card networks, should keep the real card details. Other banks and digital payment accounts, such as HSBC India, SBI Card, Paytm, Phonepe, and the National Payments Corporation of India, have been mandated by the RBI (NPCI).

29 Mar 2021

Cyberattacks against remote access protocols rise amid COVID-19 pandemic

In a brute-force attack, attackers test different usernames and passwords until the correct combination is found -- and they gain access to the corporate resources. The numbers in India went from 1.3 million in February 2020 to 3.3 million in March 2020. From April 2020 onward, monthly attacks never dipped below 300 million, and they reached a new high of 409 million attacks worldwide in November 2020. The highest number of attacks, 4.5 million in India, was recorded in July 2020, showed the data.

16 Feb 2017

Get remote access to passwords through Kaspersky password manager

The user needs to remember just one master password instead of dozens of different passwords.

16 Dec 2016

Paytm claims 15 customers cheated it of Rs 6.15 lakh, CBI registers FIR

Digital wallet company PayTM claims 48 customers cheated it to the tune of over Rs 6.15 lakh.

10 Nov 2016

'Facebook buying passwords that hackers are selling in black market to keep accounts safe'

Ever got irritated when Facebook asked you to re-think a password for your account even if you typed in the one you have been using for years? That`s because the social networking platform wants your account safe.

15 Jun 2016

Check out: These are the top 20 most common passwords

Do you ever wonder which are the most common passwords in the world? Check out the list here!

10 Jun 2016

Twitter locks some accounts following leaks

Micro-blogging website Twitter responded to news that surfaced on Thursday indicating that over 32 million Twitter passwords may have been compromised by locking accounts that demand extra protection and requiring a password reset.

10 Feb 2016

Searches related to online protection growing in India: Google

Online search related to changing passwords has grown by 20 percent, while those related to two step verification jumped 97 percent over the last year as an increasing number of Indians are becoming cautious about online security and protection of their data, technology giant Google said Wednesday.

28 Jan 2016

DNA: Revealed - Top 25 worst passwords!

05 Nov 2015

Microsoft working on password-free world

With growing concerns over security of emails and mobile phones, technology giant Microsoft on Thursday said it is working on ways to rid tech users of their worries over passwords.

14 Sep 2015

Novel typing method to prevent cyber crime

Researchers have developed a new keystroke algorithm that can make online authentication processes more secure, reliable and cheap.

03 Aug 2015

Check misuse of user-id, password: CVC to banks, insurance firms

It was also noticed that the officers were not frequently changing their password. "

20 Aug 2014

FBI probing reported theft of 1.2 bn Internet passwords

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a report by a US cybersecurity firm that it uncovered some 1.2 billion Internet logins and passwords amassed by a Russian crime ring, the largest known collection of such stolen data.

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