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You can either provide your complete 18-digit card number each time you pay online, or you can employ tokenisation. From January 1, 2022, no firm in the card transaction or payment chain, other than card issuers and card networks, should keep the real card details. Other banks and digital payment accounts, such as HSBC India, SBI Card, Paytm, Phonepe, and the National Payments Corporation of India, have been mandated by the RBI (NPCI).

In a brute-force attack, attackers test different usernames and passwords until the correct combination is found -- and they gain access to the corporate resources. The numbers in India went from 1.3 million in February 2020 to 3.3 million in March 2020. From April 2020 onward, monthly attacks never dipped below 300 million, and they reached a new high of 409 million attacks worldwide in November 2020. The highest number of attacks, 4.5 million in India, was recorded in July 2020, showed the data.

The user needs to remember just one master password instead of dozens of different passwords.

Digital wallet company PayTM claims 48 customers cheated it to the tune of over Rs 6.15 lakh. 

Ever got irritated when Facebook asked you to re-think a password for your account even if you typed in the one you have been using for years? That`s because the social networking platform wants your account safe.

Do you ever wonder which are the most common passwords in the world? Check out the list here!

Micro-blogging website Twitter responded to news that surfaced on Thursday indicating that over 32 million Twitter passwords may have been compromised by locking accounts that demand extra protection and requiring a password reset.

Online search related to changing passwords has grown by 20 percent, while those related to two step verification jumped 97 percent over the last year as an increasing number of Indians are becoming cautious about online security and protection of their data, technology giant Google said Wednesday.

With growing concerns over security of emails and mobile phones, technology giant Microsoft on Thursday said it is working on ways to rid tech users of their worries over passwords.

Researchers have developed a new keystroke algorithm that can make online authentication processes more secure, reliable and cheap.

It was also noticed that the officers were not frequently changing their password. "

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a report by a US cybersecurity firm that it uncovered some 1.2 billion Internet logins and passwords amassed by a Russian crime ring, the largest known collection of such stolen data.