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Facebook could find more data breaches like Cambridge Analytica: Sandberg
Facebook expects to uncover additional violations of users' personal data, the company's No 2 executive has said as the social media network faces severe backlash over its user data scandal. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said the company is doing audits, but warned it could find more data breaches. "I am not going to sit here and say that we're not going to find more because we are, Sandberg said in an interview to NBC. Sandberg stressed that the social media giant "cared about privacy all along." "But I think we got the balance wrong," she said. "I think we were very idealistic and not rigorous enough and then there's the possible misuse. What we are focused on is making sure those possible use cases get shut down." Last month, a whistleblower who previously worked for Cambridge Analytica came forward to claim that the British-based firm had used a third-party app to obtain private information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without the users' knowledge. Later, .
Amazon arm to create New-Age tech workforce in India
Realising the need to create a workforce for Next-Gen technologies, several tech companies have started accelerators and incubators in the recent past to nurture talent in disruptive technologies in India.
Facebook brings political ads under more scrutiny
In order to prevent election interference on its platform, Facebook has introduced new changes to increase transparency and accountability for electoral ads and Pages.
FB users to receive notification regarding data breach on April 9
The social networking site Facebook will soon take a damage control move in respect to the massive data leak by the UK based analytics firm Cambridge Analytica.As reported by the Washington Post, all the 2.2 billion Facebook users on Monday will receive a notification on their newsfeeds titled "Protecting Your Information," with a link to see what apps they use and what information they have shared with those apps.Further, the users could shut off their applications synced with Facebook and also the third-party access to their applications completely.In addition, the 87 million users who might have had their data shared with Cambridge Analytica will get a detailed message informing them of this.Facebook has claimed that most of the affected users (more than 70 million) are based out of the United States.Further, there are over a million each in the Philippines, Indonesia, and the U.K.Earlier, Facebook founder-CEO Mark Zuckerberg had acknowledged that he has made a "huge mistake" for ..
Facebook says it should have audited Cambridge Analytica
Facebook's No. 2 executive says the company should have conducted an audit after learning that a political consultancy improperly accessed user data nearly three years ago. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg told NBC's "Today" show that at the time, Facebook received legal assurances that Cambridge Analytica had deleted the improperly obtained information. "What we didn't do is the next step of an audit and we're trying to that now," she said. The audit of Cambridge Analytica is on hold, in deference to a UK investigation. But Facebook has been conducting a broader review of its own practices and how other third-party apps use data. Sandberg also told NBC that if users were able to opt out of being shown ads, "at the highest level, that would be a paid product." This does not mean the company is planning to let users do this. Zuckerberg has made similar statements in the past, but has added that Facebook remains committed to offering a free service paid for by ...
Facebook to require verified identities for political ads
Facebook announced today that it will require any political ads on its platform to state who is paying for the message, and for their identity to be verified, in a bid to curb outside election interference. "These steps by themselves wont stop all people trying to game the system," Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said. "But they will make it a lot harder for anyone to do what the Russians did during the 2016 election and use fake accounts and pages to run ads.
Did Cambridge Analytica get your data? You'll know soon
Anyone who's been wondering if their private Facebook data might have been swept up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal will soon get their first clues. Starting Monday, all 2.2 billion Facebook users will receive a notice on their feeds, titled "Protecting Your Information," with a link to see what apps they use and what information they have shared with those apps. If they want, they can shut off apps individually or turn off third-party access to their apps completely. In addition, the 87 million users who might have had their data shared with Cambridge Analytica will get a more detailed message informing them of this. Facebook says most of the affected users (more than 70 million) are in the US, though there are over a million each in the Philippines, Indonesia and the U.K. Reeling from its worst privacy crisis in history, allegations that this Trump-affiliated data mining firm may have used ill-gotten user data to try to influence elections, Facebook is in full damage-control ...
Govt sites not hacked, was inaccessible due to technical reasons: NIC
Rebuffing the reports of hacking of the government website, the National Informatics Centre (NIC) on Friday informed that almost 10 Government websites became inaccessible to the public since afternoon due to some 'technical reasons'.The NIC said that there was no cyber attack of any nature."The site showed what appeared to be a Chinese character and it was understandable that the site was perceived to be hacked. It has been identified that the sites have not been hacked," a statement from NIC read.The NIC said that the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Home Affairs, Department of Public Enterprises, Election Commission, Employees' Provident Fund Organisation, Ministry of Labor, Department of Science and Technology were some, which was down in the afternoon are up and running.Earlier in the day, the official website of Ministry of Defence appeared hacked, raising a serious question on the security system of the country.On visiting, the website displayed an 'error' message and asked ...
WhatsApp says it collects very little data and every message is end to end encrypted
Facebook-owned WhatsApp today refuted reports that it is keeping track of the messages and said that it collects very little data and every message is end-to-end encrypted. WhatsApp was responding to concerns by experts that the popular instant messaging service with over 200-million active users in India might not be as secure as being claimed. Questions were also being raised over certain provisions of the user agreement wherein most of its wrongdoings would go un-remedied and un-challenged. WhatsApp collects very little data and every message is end-to-end encrypted. Contrary to recent comments in the media, we are not keeping track of the friends and family you have messaged, a WhatsApp spokesperson told PTI. "The privacy and security of our users is incredibly important to WhatsApp. Invite links are an optional feature available to group administrators to be used only with trusted individuals, the spokesperson told PTI in response to a question. The popular messaging platform, ...
Ministry of Defence website not hacked, clarifies NIC
The National Informatics Centre (NIC) on Friday clarified that the official website of the Ministry of Defence has not been hacked.The NIC in a tweet informed that the website was down since 2:30 p.m. due to some technical issue.Earlier in the day, the official website of Ministry of Defence appeared hacked, raising a serious question on the security system of the country.On visiting, the website displayed an 'error' message and asked users to 'try again later' with Chinese characters appearing on the home page of the website.Soon after the reports, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the website will be restored shortly and assured to take steps to prevent such eventuality in the future."Action is initiated after the hacking of MoD website ( http://mod.nic.in ). The website shall be restored shortly. Needless to say, every possible step required to prevent any such eventuality in the future will be taken. @DefenceMinIndia @PIB_India @PIBHindi," Sitharaman ...
Defence Ministry website hacked, nine more sites affected
The Defence Ministry's official website was hacked on Friday while nine other government sites, including that of the Home Ministry, also crashed in no time. But the government said it was all due to a "process of technical upgradation" and the sites were functioning again by the night.
Airtel to enhance network capacity by up to 7 times at IPL venues
Telecom major Bharti Airtel today said it will deploy a pre-5G-technology at IPL match venues that can enhance its network capacity by up to seven times and provide high speed connection to its subscribers. "Airtel will deploy the advanced Massive MIMO Pre-5G technology across IPL match venues. Massive MIMO expands existing network capacity by five to seven times over existing spectrum. Customers will be able to experience superfast data speeds on Airtel's 4G network despite the very large number of concurrent users on the network sites at the venue," the company said in a statement. Airtel will deploy the Massive MIMO solution in IPL (Indian Premier League) match venues in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mohali, Indore, Jaipur, Bengaluru and Chennai. "The first venue to go live with Airtel's Massive MIMO deployment will be the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai where the first match of the IPL will be played on April 7, 2018," the statement said. Airtel was the first mobile operator in ...
BSNL launches 153 GB data pack for Rs 258 during IPL season
Joining the race to cash in on popular IPL tournament, state-run telecom firm BSNL today announced a 153 GB mobile data pack for Rs 258 with 51 days validity. "BSNL presents IPL pack Unlimited data STV-248 for prepaid mobile customers which give unlimited data (3 GB data per day) with validity of 51 days during period of IPL cricket match. This will be useful for our subscriber to stream live IPL matches at a very economical rate," the state-run firm said. Reliance Jio on Wednesday announced a 102 GB data pack for Rs 251 during the upcoming cricket season. Bharti Airtel yesterday said it will provide free live streaming of IPL matches through Hotstar on its TV app. At Rs 258 for 153 Gb, BSNL is offering cheapest data in the market. The state-run firm BSNL, however, has only 3G network across India while Jio's offer is for 4G service. "This limited period offer is available in the market from April 7, 2018 to 30 April 2018 on pan India basis," BSNL statement said.
Facebook retracted Zuckerberg's messages from recipients' inboxes: Report
In what is raising questions over possible breach of user trust, people have reported that messages received from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have disappeared from their Facebook inboxes, according to a media report. A report in technology news site TechCrunch said that while one cannot remove Facebook messages from the inboxes of people one sents them to, Facebook has done so for Zuckerberg and other executives. TechCrunch said that three sources have confirmed to it that old Facebook messages they received from Zuckerberg have disappeared from their Facebook inboxes, "while their own replies to him conspicuously remain." It said an email receipt of a Facebook message from 2010 reviewed by TechCrunch proves Zuckerberg sent people messages that no longer appear in their Facebook chat logs or in the files available from Facebook's Download Your Information tool. TechCrunch said Facebook responded to the situation, saying such an action is taken for the purpose of corporate ...
Govt websites hit by outage, cyber security chief says not hacking
Over a dozen official websites including those of defence and home ministries were today hit by an outage which was blamed on hacking but the national cyber security chief maintained it was caused by a technical glitch. Officials said tonight that efforts were underway to fix the affected sites. The National Coordinator of Cyber Security Gulshan Rai said a hardware failure was detected after some of the prominent Government websites that were hosted on the servers of National Informatics Centre(NIC) went down displaying an error message to visitors. The statement from Rai contradicts a tweet by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman who had earlier claimed it to be a hacking incident. "Action is initiated after the hacking of MoD website (http://mod.nic.in). The website shall be restored shortly. Needless to say, every possible step required to prevent any such eventuality in the future will be taken," she had said in her tweet. A Defence Ministry spokesman had said "we are seized of the
RBI issues notification on data storage by payment cos
The RBI today asked all payment system operators in the country to store all data, including full end-to-end transaction details and information collected, within India to ensure security of users' information. The operators have been asked to comply with the instructions within six months, the central bank said in a notification. RBI noted that "not all system providers" store the payments data in India. In order to ensure better monitoring, it is important to have unfettered supervisory access to data stored with these system providers as also with their service providers/ intermediaries/third party vendors and other entities in the payment ecosystem, it said in the notification. "All system providers shall ensure that the entire data relating to payment systems operated by them are stored in a system only in India," it said. It further said that data should include the full end-to-end transaction details, information collected/carried/ processed as part of the message/payment ...
No hacking of websites: National cyber security chief
Government websites, including those of defence and home ministries, have not come under any cyber attack, but suffered a hardware-related glitch, National Cyber Security Coordinator Gulshan Rai said today. Explaining the outage, he said the websites have been down since afternoon after it was noticed that there was a "storage area networking system" failure. "The same is being addressed. It is only a hardware failure," Rai, who has been working in the field of cyber security since 1998, said. "There is no hacking or cyber attack," Rai, who heads the cyber security unit, said. Rai, who was earlier heading the computer emergency response team, said that nearly a dozen government websites hosted by National Infomatics Centre, including defence, home, department of law and labour, were affected due to the outage. "The hardware is being replaced and they will be up very soon," Rai said. Earlier Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had tweeted, "Action is initiated after the hacking of MoD .
Facebook 'secretly' deleted CEO's posts from recipients' inboxes: Report
While a common Facebook user can never delete messages already sent to friends or colleagues, Facebook reportedly did so when it came to its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
MoU inked at Huddle Kerala; NASSCOM Foundation to implement
Global IT networking major Cisco is setting up an incubator for start-ups to nurture and develop ideas in the Internet of Things domain at the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K), in partnership with the NASSCOM Foundation. A MoU was inked today in this reagard between Shrikant Sinha, CEO, NASSCOM Foundation and Paul Antony, Kerala Chief Secretary in the presence of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan during the inaugural ceremony of the two-day conclave "Huddle Kerala." The event is billed as one of Asias largest startup ecosystem congregations. Another MoU for establishing the Cisco Networking Academy programme in Kerala through the ICT Academy of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, was also signed at the event. Harish Krishnan, MD, Public Affairs and Strategic Engagements, Cisco India and SAARC, and M Sivasankar, IT Secretary, Government of Kerala, exchanged the MoU. Ciscos thingQbator is an Internet of Things (IoT) laboratory and a ...
MHA website taken down as extra precautions
The website of the home ministry has been temporarily taken down as part of extra precautions in the wake of the hacking of the defence ministry site. An official spokesperson said the National Informatics Centre, which hosts the MHA site, is upgrading the security system of the website leading to its temporary suspension. "The requested service is temporarily unavailable. Sorry for Inconvenience. It would be available soon," is the message that comes when one opens the MHA website. The spokesperson said the move has been taken as part of extra precautions. The MHA site was down soon after the news came that the defence ministry's website was hacked.