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![India said its coronavirus contact-tracing app is perfect... adds bug bounty and open-sources it anyway](/static/build/img/news/alt/covid-statistics-scaled-small.jpg)
India has open-sourced its Aarogya Setu contact-tracing app and announced a bug bounty programme to detect any security issues. The nation has now decided to open the app and run a bug bounty programme.
![India said its coronavirus contact-tracing app is perfect... adds bug bounty and open-sources it anyway](/static/build/img/news/alt/covid-statistics-scaled-small.jpg)
India has open-sourced its Aarogya Setu contact-tracing app and announced a bug bounty programme to detect any security issues. The nation has now decided to open the app and run a bug bounty programme.
![India releases data-use protocols for its contact-tracing app... after five weeks and 100 million downloads](/static/build/img/news/alt/malware-statistics-2-scaled-small.jpg)
India's government has released the protocol for using data gathered by its Aarogya Setu COVID-19 tracing app, weeks after its April 2nd release and after it was downloaded almost 100 million times. The protocols [PDF], released yesterday by India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, state that the state-run National Informatics Centre will "Collect only such data as is necessary and proportionate to formulate or implement appropriate health responses."
![India acknowledges, but brushes aside, features-not-bugs in Aarogya Setu virus contact-tracing app](/static/build/img/news/alt/cyber-threat-stats-small.jpg)
The Indian government has acknowledged "Potential security issues" in the Aarogya Setu contact-tracing app which its opposition labels as a "Surveillance system with no oversight", but says the code issues are not that big a deal. Unlike other nations' contact-tracing apps, Aarogya Setu is not open source or known to be based on other open-source efforts.
![India makes contact-tracing app compulsory in viral hot zones despite most local phones not being smart](/static/build/img/news/alt/web-statistics-small.jpg)
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![India says 'Zoom is a not a safe platform' and bans government users](/static/build/img/news/alt/cost-stats-small.jpg)
In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. Based on not much more but these few data points and his knowledge of silicon chip development - he was head of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductors, the company that was to seed Silicon Valley - he said that for the next decade, component counts by area could double every year.
!['Not a Safe Platform': India Bans Zoom for Government Use](/static/build/img/news/alt/cybersecurity-attacker-small.jpg)
India has banned the use of video-conferencing app Zoom for government remote meetings, the government said Thursday, in the latest warning about the platform's security. "Zoom is not a safe platform," the statement said.
![India Seeks Answers From WhatsApp After Cyberespionage](/static/build/img/news/alt/IoT-Cybersecurity-Predictions-2-small.jpg)
India demanded answers from WhatsApp over a snooping scandal Thursday after coming under fire from critics who accused authorities of using malware installed on the Facebook-owned messaging...
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![State Bank of India Leaves Millions of Customer Messages Exposed](/static/build/img/news/alt/Data-Cybersecurity-Predictions-small.jpg)
The State Bank of India is the latest large organization to leave a database full of personal information exposed and accessible on the internet. read more