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Cyber-threats taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic are evolving, and Google is seeing an increase in related phishing attempts in countries such as Brazil, India, and the UK. As the coronavirus crisis spreads worldwide, cyber-criminals and state-sponsored actors have adapted their attacks to leverage pandemic-related lures. Google says it has observed an increase in the number of scams targeting Aarogya Setu, an initiative where the government is trying to connect people across India with essential health services.
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 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'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."
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.
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.
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.
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 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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