Bad Bot Report 2026: The Internet Is No Longer Human and It’s Changing How Business Works

For decades, companies have operated on a simple assumption that most internet traffic came from people. That assumption no longer holds. The latest 2026 Bad Bot Report: Bad Bots in the Agentic Age reinforces a shift that is now impossible to ignore. Automated traffic continues to outpace human...

It’s Data Privacy Day: Here’s how to protect your data and become your own privacy champion

News, Security It’s Data Privacy Day: Here’s how to protect your data and become your own privacy champion Share January 27th, 2023 Hello readers! January 28 is Data Privacy Day – an annual celebration of all things data protection and online privacy! It’s an opportunity for businesses and users ...

Indian Government Publishes Draft of Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022

The Indian government on Friday released a draft version of the much-awaited data protection regulation, making it the fourth such effort since it was first proposed in July 2018. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, as it's called, aims to secure personal data, while also seeking...

From basic text to streaming 4K movies: A brief history of the World Wide Web

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote his proposal for the World Wide Web WWW in 1989, he probably didn’t predict just how much his ideas would change the way we communicate. With about 1.83 billion websites to date, the World Wide Web has been the cornerstone of the information age. Famously Berners-Le...

Supreme Court Limits Scope of Controversial Hacking Law

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that a police officer who received money for obtaining data from a law-enforcement database for an associate did not violate a controversial federal hacking law, marking a victory for the ethical hacking community by limiting the law’s scope. In a landmar...

Announcing Akamai's 2030 Sustainability Goals

There are 4.66 billion yes, with a B internet users. Rough math will tell us that's three in every five people around the world -- talk about lessening the six degrees. I see head nods and shoulder shrugs. 4.66 billion people?...

120 Compromised Ad Servers Target Millions of Internet Users

An ongoing malvertising campaign tracked as "Tag Barnakle" has been behind the breach of more than 120 ad servers over the past year to sneakily inject code in an attempt to serve malicious advertisements that redirect users to rogue websites, thus exposing victims to scamware or malware. Unlike...

India Witnessed Spike in Cyber Attacks Amidst Covid-19 - Here's Why?

The COVID-19 outreach is turning out to be not only health, social, and economic hazard but also a cybersecurity crisis. The pandemic has presented new challenges for businesses in the areas of remote collaboration and business continuity. With increased remote working for better business...

How to browse the Internet safely at work

This Safer Internet Day, we teamed up with ethical hacking and web application security company Detectify to provide security tips for both workplace Internet users and web developers. This article is aimed at employees of all levels. If you’re a programmer looking to create secure websites, visi...

FBI Sinkholes $38M Global Ad Fraud Operation

The FBI has taken control of 31 web domains in a widespread takedown of a multi-year, global ad fraud campaign, believed to have stolen at least $38 million, partly via a botnet strategy. In addition, eight defendants face a 13-count indictment from a federal court in Brooklyn in the case. The...

India's Startup Story - The Future of India's Digital Economy

India's goal of reaching a $1 trillion digital economy by 20221 is said to be fuelled, in part, by the spurt in the growth of startups across the country. The number of Internet users in India is growing at an enormous rate with close to 500 million internet users today2. Indians are at the...

New AI system DARKMENTION will detect upcoming cyberattacks from dark web

By Waqas Cybersecurity is one of the primary concerns of internet users nowadays, which includes commercial and governmental organizations as well. Recent, large-scale data breaches at Gmail, Equifax, Facebook, Google+ Cathay Pacific Airways, and Yahoo, etc., have made it clear that the bigger th...

Apple Moves iCloud Data and Encryption Keys for Chinese Users to China

Apple has finally agreed to open a new Chinese data center next month to comply with the country's latest controversial data protection law. Apple will now move the cryptographic keys of its Chinese iCloud users in data centers run by a state-owned company called Cloud Big Data Industrial...

DROWN Flaw Opens 33 Percent Of HTTPS Connections To Attack

Researchers revealed a massive transport layer security TLS vulnerability today that leaves millions of Internet users vulnerable to an attack that could expose passwords, credit card numbers and financial data. OpenSSL and others are urging companies to patch their web servers or risk exposure t...

Password Security — Who's to Blame for Weak Passwords? Users, Really?

The majority of Internet users are vulnerable to cyber threats because of their own weaknesses in setting up a strong password. But, are end-users completely responsible for choosing weak passwords? Give a thought. Recently we wrote an article revealing the list of Worst Passwords of 2015 that...

Advertising Alliance to morph hung it to the Union HackingTeam vulnerability weapons attack millions of Internet users-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In the 1 1 month, 3 6 0 Internet Security Center monitoring to a product called“restartokwecha“Downloader Trojan to intercept the amount of surge,and its trace is found, the Trojan turned out from the PConline Pacific computer network, the 1ting a listen to the music network, the...

Here's What Facebook 'Dislike or Empathy Button' Would Look Like

A Facebook Dislike button is one of the most frequently requested features from users for years. Earlier in the last week, Facebook finally confirmed its plans to add a Dislike or Empathy to your Facebook Profile and News Feed. If you are thinking that Facebook Dislike is going to be a thumbs-dow...

Deleting WhatsApp Messages Before 90 Days Could Land you in Jail

While the Indian people continue to struggle for Net Neutrality, a new problem surrounded them with the release of the latest policy for ‘National Encryption Policy’ by the Indian Government. If you delete your WhatsApp Messages or Emails that you receive or send before 90 days, it might be a cri...

Hacking Team Flash Zero Day Weaponized in Exploit Kits

Handlers for three major exploit kits have managed to utilize in short order a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player uncovered among the 400 Gb of data stolen from Hacking Team. Experts, including French researcher Kafeine and a number of others from security companies, revealed last night...

IETF To Mitigate Pervasive Monitoring In Future Protocols

The Internet Engineering Task Force IETF has defined pervasive monitoring, otherwise known as unwarranted surveillance and analysis of Internet traffic and even the subversion of cryptographic keys, as an attack and wants future versions of IETF-sponsored protocols to be designed to mitigate it...