Tag: Electronics and IT

The Indian government has clarified that CoWIN app's database was not breached, despite reports of a Covid data leak. Find out how a Telegram bot accessed data from a previously breached database, and how the government aims to protect citizen privacy through its National Data Governance policy.

India's leading health institution, AIIMS, successfully fended off a potential malware attack on its eHospital services. Although cybercriminals targeted the website, ehospital.aiims.edu, the threat was quickly neutralized, and no data breach occurred. Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, emphasized that there was no cyber attack or breach at AIIMS. This is a significant achievement, considering AIIMS faced a massive ransomware attack last year, which crippled its centralised records and hospital services.

Learn how India's digital infrastructure success, including UPI and Aadhaar, can serve as a blueprint for other nations to expand their own public infrastructure at the Global DPI Summit. Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, also discusses the importance of cybersecurity and introduces One Future Alliance.

Congress accuses BJP of suppressing social media after Twitter's co-founder claimed government pressure to block accounts covering farmers' protests.