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- BBMP faces ire for publishing pourakarmikas' Aadhaar details on website — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jun 06, 2017 02:27 PM
- The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has published the Aadhaar details and other personal information of thousands of its pourakarmikas - civic workers who sweep streets and collect waste door-to-door.
- Digital native: Look before you (digitally) leap — by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 08, 2017 01:22 AM
- Creating a digital future is great, but there’s a serious need to secure the infrastructure first.
- Sharad Sharma Apologises for Trolling Aadhaar Critics; Unmasking Ispirit's Controversial Trolling Program — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 26, 2017 01:08 AM
- Last weekend I was at Aditi Mittal’s standup comedy show in Mumbai where she made a cheeky remark that stayed with me – “Do you guys know what India’s soft power is today? It is trolling!”
- Open house on information breaches — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jun 07, 2017 12:41 AM
- On May 26, 2017 at the Has Geek open house participants discussed the state of information security in India the legal and regulatory measures that companies must comply with, and consumers should be aware of. Udbhav Tiwari was a speaker at the event organized by Has Geek in Bengaluru.
- iSpirt's Sharad Sharma: Sorry, I trolled Aadhaar critics — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 26, 2017 12:13 AM
- Sharad Sharma, the man who is seen as one of the critical backbones of India's digital drive, profusely apologized on Tuesday for anonymously trolling those arguing for better privacy and security standards in Aadhaar.
- Aadhaar Card: One Identity, Multiple Disorders — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 26, 2017 12:01 AM
- It is still hazy to see the desperation of the union government to imposing the Aadhaar Card mandatory when matters related to Aadhaar Card are already sub judice.
- Sharad Sharma's case shows how rampant troll culture has become under Modi — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jun 07, 2017 12:29 PM
- Sharad Sharma's case shows how rampant troll culture has become under Modi.
- Zomato hack: You need to enhance online security with a password manager — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 23, 2017 03:54 PM
- Hacking incident at Zomato underlines need to employ different passwords for different accounts.
- Preliminary research result on Wikipedia gender gap in India — by Ting-Yi Chang — last modified May 23, 2017 11:09 AM
- Since June 2016, Ting-Yi Chang from the University of Toronto has worked with the CIS-A2K team to conduct action research on the Wikipedia gender gap in India. The research aims to improve the understanding of the gender gap (imbalance) issue in the Indian Wikipedia communities while examining local interventions.
- Chinese state media says U.S. should take some blame for cyber attack — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jun 07, 2017 01:12 AM
- "WannaCry is far and away the most severe malware attack so far in 2017, and the spread of this troubling ransomware is far from over". Since the global attack was launched on Friday, several thousand more computers were discovered to be infected, particularly in Asia as the work day began on Monday. "We've seen that the slowdown of the infection rate over Friday night, after a temporary fix around it, has now been overcome by a second variation the criminals have released".
- Noida cyber cell gives tips on preventing WannaCry attack — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jun 07, 2017 01:18 AM
- The attackers targeted a weakness found in older versions of Microsoft Windows.
- Consilience 2017 - A Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Law — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jun 07, 2017 01:47 AM
- The Law and Technology Society, NLSIU organized their annual conference, Consilience, on the theme 'Artificial Intelligence and the Law' on May 20, 2017 in Bengaluru. Vidushi Marda took part in the event as a panelist.
- Consultative Meeting for a Digital Archive Lab — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jun 08, 2017 01:07 PM
- A meeting for a digital archive lab was held at the Centre for Community Knowledge, Ambedkar University in New Delhi on May 20, 2017. P.P. Sneha participated in the meeting.
- Microsoft says WannaCry ransomware must be a wake-up call for governments — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jun 07, 2017 12:55 AM
- Computer security experts said the current attack could have been much worse but for the quick action of a young researcher in Britain who discovered a vulnerability in the ransomware itself, known as WanaCryptor 2.0. It has, however, retweeted a blog post by Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer at Microsoft, who directs much of the blame toward the USA government, arguing that it should have alerted the $524 billion tech titan about the problem.
- 4th National Standards Conclave Evolving a Comprehensive National Strategy for Standards Sectoral and Regional Inclusiveness — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 20, 2017 08:06 AM
- Udbhav Tiwari represented CIS in the 4th National Standards Conclave held on the May 1 and 2, 2017 at The Lalit, New Delhi. The event was organized by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the Confederation of Indian Industry.
- Will Aadhaar leaks be used as an excuse to shut out scrutiny of welfare schemes? — by Anumeha Yadav — last modified May 20, 2017 07:09 AM
- Aadhaar data of all 23 crore beneficiaries of Direct Benefit Transfer schemes could be publicly available, says a report by Centre for Internet and Society.
- Aadhaar assurances fail to assuage privacy concerns — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 20, 2017 06:23 AM
- While Aadhaar may be secure from external attacks, a failsafe system hasn’t been developed to protect it from Edward Snowden-style leakages and hacks.
- UIDAI goes after org that disclosed government departments were releasing Aadhaar data — by Nikhil Pahwa — last modified May 20, 2017 10:46 AM
- If there was ever a case of shoot the messenger, it is this.
- Hacker steals 17 million Zomato users’ data, briefly puts it on dark web — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 20, 2017 05:57 AM
- Records of 17 million users were stolen from online restaurant search platform Zomato, the company said in a blog post on Thursday.
- Policies to Sustain India's Market — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified May 20, 2017 03:06 AM
- The question is whether policies can be better framed to harness the market potential. Why is so much investment flowing into India's securities markets?
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