Encryption  

Cyber protection company Acronis has warned that 2021 will bring aggressive cybercrime activity as criminals pivot their attacks from data encryption to data exfiltration. In its Acronis Cyberthreats Report 2020, the firm has noted the growing trend of cybercriminals trying to maximize their financial gain. Here are 5 key observations in the report

Encryption has caused yet another debate. The latest one comes in the wake of the Westminster terror attack.

UIDAI is the nodal body responsible for rolling out Aadhaar, the 12-digit unique identification number that identifies residents based on their biometrics. While more than 112 crore Aadhaar have been generated in the country, the Aadhaar authentications have crossed 500 crore, and 100 crore e-KYC have been done on the platform.

Unique Identification Authority of India has said that all devices using Aadhaar authentication will have to adhere to its new encryption standards from June 1.

WhatsApp and Telegram use end-to-end encryption designed to make certain only senders and recipients can see what is in messages. The privacy protection had the side effect of preventing the services from being able to discern whether message contents included malicious code, according to Check Point.

The Cryptoparty session conducted by Thejesh GN at the Under 25 Summit was all about how to secure yourself in cyberspace. 

WhatsApp has over one billion users globally, with a significant chunk coming from India. Facebook also runs photo-sharing platform, Instagram

End-to-end encryption encodes your messages for sure, but what about those texts which you have erased? Yes, Whatsapp stores them!

Amid the number of increasing cases of hacking the government of India has decided to strengthen the cyber laws

Almost after a year of launch of the launch of end-to-end encryption feature in Whatsapp, Facebook is all set to introduce the same in its messenger