Are You Cyber Secure?

Personal details of 20 million customers of a leading Indian e-commerce portal was allegedly leaked and made available for sale on the dark web last month.  In August, almost 3,69,000 banking records of Indian account holders were up for grabs. In September, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter account was allegedly hacked. In a world that is online 24x7, the dangers of cyber-attack—a word to describe unauthorised access to private online data—have never been more prominent than today. A recent study indicates that seven out of 10 Indian companies were victims of data breaches and cyber-attacks. The country witnessed close to 10,000 coronavirus-themed attacks between February and May. According to National Cyber Security Coordinator, Lt. Gen. (Retd) Rajesh Pant, cyber-attacks in India have “gone up multi-fold” with four lakh malware being found every...