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                                      IT companies in Bengaluru on high alert over WannaCry ransomware
                                    
 
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In the wake of the ransomware attack triggered by WannaCry virus, IT firms in Bengaluru are racing against time to updating their security systems. At some firms, employees have been asked to stay away from work for a few hours, while many other companies have declared holiday for a day or two for their employees.
                                      
                                          
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                                      What’s Hard To Digest About The Zomato Hacking
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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Yet another day, yet another major security breach. But, this time it’s not a presidential candidate in the U.S. or the U.K.’s National Health Service. Instead. it’s Zomato, the popular Indian online food delivery and restaurant search service.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Hacker steals 17 million Zomato users’ data, briefly puts it on dark web
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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Records of 17 million users were stolen from online restaurant search platform Zomato, the company said in a blog post on Thursday.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Experts stress on need for enhanced security
                                    
 
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With more and more people falling prey to phishing scams, experts believe that lack of adequate security features in online payment systems will only increase the number of such cases in the coming days. While admitting that the rise in such crimes would be hard to stop or control, cyber security consultants also blame the lack of preparedness before taking the digital economy route as a cause for such problems.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Cybersecurity Visuals Media Handbook: Launch Event
                                    
 
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6th December | 6 pm | Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore
                                      
                                          
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                                      Extra-Territorial Surveillance and the Incapacitation of Human Rights
                                     
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This paper was published in Volume 12 (2) of the NUJS Law Review. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      Decrypting Automated Facial Recognition Systems (AFRS) and Delineating Related Privacy Concerns
                                     
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                                              Arindrajit Basu, Siddharth Sonkar
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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Arindrajit Basu and Siddharth Sonkar have co-written this blog as the first of their three-part blog series on AI Policy Exchange under the parent title: Is there a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy from Data Aggregation by Automated Facial Recognition Systems?
                                      
                                          
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                                      RBI Ban on Cryptocurrencies not backed by any data or statistics
                                     
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In March 2020, the Supreme Court of India quashed the RBI order passed in 2018 that banned financial services firms from trading in virtual currency or cryptocurrency.
Keeping this policy window in mind, the Centre for Internet & Society will be releasing a series of blog posts and policy briefs on cryptocurrency regulation in India
                                      
                                          
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                                      Guidelines for the Protection of National Critical Information Infrastructure: How Much Regulation?
                                     
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                                              Jonathan Diamond
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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July has been a busy month for cyber security in India. Beginning with the release of the country’s first National Cyber Security Policy on July 2 and followed just this past week by a set of guidelines for the protection of national critical information infrastructure (CII) developed under the direction of the National Technical Research Organization (NTRO), India has made respectable progress in its thinking on national cyber security.
                                      
                                          
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                                      The Geopolitics of Cyberspace: A Compendium of CIS Research
                                     
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Cyberspace is undoubtedly shaping and disrupting commerce, defence and human relationships all over the world. Opportunities such as improved access to knowledge, connectivity, and innovative business models have been equally met with nefarious risks including cyber-attacks, disinformation campaigns, government driven digital repression, and rabid profit-making by ‘Big Tech.’ Governments have scrambled to create and update global rules that can regulate the fair and equitable uses of technology while preserving their own strategic interests.
                                      
                                          
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