Payal Dhar

Vulnerabilities in nigh-ubiquitous apps like Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Slack, combined with the behavioral changes that accompanied many people’s unexpected move to remote work, have had an outsized impact on security.

Tech companies — including several global VPN providers — and privacy advocates are bristling at new cyber requirements they say could jeopardize the security of Indian citizens.

Verifying users based on their fingerprints, irises or some other biological measurement could backfire for Big Tech if companies fail to heed cybersecurity threats.

A team of North American researchers is developing a statistics-based technique to weed out falsehoods from social media platforms, with implications for election integrity, cybersecurity and COVID-19.