Tag: India
India: COVID-19 Surveillance Tool Exposes PII of 8 Mn Users
A COVID-19 surveillance tool in the Indian state Uttar Pradesh inadvertently exposed the personal information of over eight million people. According to vpnMentor’s researchers,...
Zhenhua Data Leak: Is China Spying and Collecting Data on Indians?
Chinese firm Zhenhua Data Information Technology has been accused of collecting data on millions of people worldwide. The Chinese tech company has reported links...
CIPL and DSCI Stress on Enabling Cross-border Data Transfers Between India...
The Data Security Council of India (DSCI) and the Centre for Information Policy Research (CIPL) have jointly released a report on enabling responsible cross-border...
Twitter Account of Indian PM Narendra Modi’s Official Website Hacked
Since the onset of the pandemic, crypto scammers have heightened their operations around the globe by targeting famed Twitter accounts for monetary gains. This...
NHA India Opens Doors for Discussion on Securing eHealth Infrastructure
India celebrated its 74th Independence Day on August 15, 2020. On this occasion, the Hon. Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, in his address...
Cyber Warfare: The Battle Tact of the Digital Age
Border disputes between countries are common these days. But these very countries engage in another kind of warfare, where there are no “boots on...
Oh Yes! It’s War, the Other War, the Cyber War!
The tensions between India and China are escalating by the day over the border dispute between the two nations in the Ladakh region. However,...
COVID-19 Cyberthreats Spike in India, Brazil, and the U.K.: Google
Google has warned about the emerging COVID-19 cyberthreats in India, Brazil, and the U.K. The search engine giant stated that attackers are using malware...
Dark Basin Hack-For-Hire Group Exposed for Targeting Organizations Globally
A hack-for-hire campaign has targeted thousands of users and hundreds of organizations across six continents over the past several years, according to a report...
Vulnerability in Secure Document Wallet DigiLocker Could Bypass OTP Authentication
The Indian Government has addressed a critical vulnerability in India-based secure document wallet DigiLocker that could allow a remote attacker to bypass one-time passwords...
