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December 29, 2021 Security

Ransomware linked to 50% of all the incident response in 2021

Nearly 50% of all the incident response (IR) in 2021 that Kaspersky’s GERT handled was ransomware linked.

Exyte selects LTIMindtree as its global IT service provider

July 12, 2021 News & Analysis

Top IT service providers faced declining revenues in 2020

Around 50% of the top 20 IT service providers by revenue reported Y-o-Y revenue decline in 2020,

April 19, 2021 News & Analysis

Semiconductor revenue up 10.4% in 2020, Intel leads

The worldwide semiconductor revenue touched $466.2 billion in 2020 against $422.3 billion in 2019.

March 23, 2021 Consumer Technology

Half-billion wearables sold worldwide in 2020

Among the more than a half-billion wearables sold globally in 2020, earwear and wristwear together accounted for 98 percent.

March 4, 2021 Security

Local cyber threats hit 45% of online users in India in 2020

Local threats targeted 45% of the online users in India with rootkits and removable tools like malicious USB drives and other offline methods.

February 10, 2021 Security

DDoS extortion attacks hit over 100 financial services firms

Same threat actor conducted these DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) extortion attacks in 2020, revealed the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (FS-ISAC).

January 15, 2021 Security

Data breaches in 2020 exposed over 22 billion records

From January through October 2020 –there were 730 publicly disclosed events that resulted in over 22 billion records exposed globally, according to Tenable’s Security Response Team (SRT).

December 30, 2020 News & Analysis

Indian IT industry turns pages of the world-changing year

The Indian IT industry has shown its resilient character with determination to overcome uncertainty and stay afloat in 2020.

December 22, 2020 News & Analysis

Top 5 ITeS players of 2020: Infosys,TCS, Wipro, IBM, Cognizant

Infosys, TCS, Wipro, IBM, Cognizant are the top 5 ITeS players of 2020 among the top 25 companies in the Indian ITeS setor revealed Wizikey’s ITeS Power Movers 2020 report.

December 21, 2020 Security

360,000 new malicious files detected per day in 2020: Kaspersky

Kaspersky’s detection systems discovered an average of 360,000 new malicious files every day over the past 12 months—18,000 more than the previous year (a 5.2% increase)