UIDAI's handling of Aadhaar is likely to be facing substantial reforms, not just due to the findings of this data management report but also due to ongoing controversy over constitutionality.
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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and writer for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.
New studies from FireEye Mandiant Threat Intelligence and Google’s Project Zero found that 2021 was a record year for zero-day vulnerabilities, more than doubling the amount seen in 2020.
MetaMask, a popular crypto wallet app, has a default setting, apparently unbeknownst to many users, that automatically writes the recovery seed phrase for the wallet to the user's iCloud backups.
GitHub says that the OAuth tokens were not stolen via a breach of its own systems, but that dozens of private repositories were accessed. OAuth tokens that were issued to two third-party integrators, Heroku and Travis-CI.
The Beanstalk attacker managed to get away with $80 million in illicit crypto funds, though the DeFi platform is looking at a total $182 million loss due to remediation and a sharp value drop that sent the token from $1 to 11 cents in value overnight.
The Apple privacy update has had the anticipated negative impact on revenues for some tech companies and has even been notably worse for others, particularly Facebook.
The US Treasury Department has linked North Korea's state-sponsored Lazarus hacking group to the $625 million breach of the Ronin network. The crypto theft was the largest to ever happen to a DeFi platform in terms of unrecovered funds.
The company arranged a payment of $200,000 through a third party, but customer data from the T-Mobile hack was subsequently seen for sale on dark net forums.
A statement from Danske Bank indicates that the GDPR violations are tied to an inability to build data deletion functionality into its complex interlocked IT systems despite beginning efforts in 2016.
US intelligence agencies have issued a public warning indicating that APT groups have developed a "mutli-tool" malware kit that targets a commonly used range of industrial control systems.
