Late Saturday night, security researcher Abhay Rana published a post detailing an XSS vulnerability on the UIDAI portal at resident.uidai.gov.in that allowed anyone to embed content on the website, so that when the appropriate url was accessed, UIDAI would appear to host that content. The vulnerability was a result of UIDAI running Read more…
So, we have yet another Aadhaar breach. Not the first, of course. The UIDAI response in each instance denies any security vulnerabilities, but falls short of disproving the reported breaches. This, of course is followed by random claims of Aadhaar being safe, propaganda and a relentless push for the adoption Read more…
Yet another Aadhaar breach. Yet another UIDAI denial that misses the point entirely. There is yet another report of Aadhaar’s ECMP software being patched to bypass security by replacing parts of its code with insecure versions of code from previous versions, reports Huffington Post. Do read the full article, but Read more…
Prof. Shamnad Basheer filed a writ petition in the High Court of Delhi with regard to the violations of privacy due to the leaks of Aadhaar numbers. The petition will be heard after the conclusion of proceedings in the cases challenging the Aadhaar on Constitutional Grounds being heard by the Read more…
Union Minister of State for Home, Hansraj Ahir has said that the Center will look into sharing Aadhaar data with police for identifying first time offenders and dead bodies, reports PTI. He was speaking at the 19th All India Conference of Directors of Finger Prints Bureau in Hyderabad. Yesterday, PTI had Read more…
The NCRB Director, Ish Kumar has requested Hansraj Ahir, Union Minister of State for Home to provide access to Aadhaar data to the police, reports PTI. He was speaking at the 19th All India Conference of Directors of Finger Prints Bureau in Hyderabad Ahir also wants an “early intervention” by the Read more…
In what is a clear violation of a Supreme Court order that Aadhaar cannot be made mandatory for bank accounts till the case in the Supreme Court is concluded, the Finacle banking software used by banks requires Aadhaar in order to create bank accounts, reports Moneylife. The Supreme Court, in Read more…
Children spotted a bag with a lot of Aadhaar cards at a scrap dealer’s shop in Jaipur, and informed the local councillor, reports DNA. Upon investigating, it was found that an unidentified man had sold them to the scrap dealer (for the weight of the paper they were printed on!). Read more…
Chief Election Commissioner O P Rawat told reporters on the sidelines of the 14th National Conference of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) on the 7th that 32 crore Aadhaar numbers had been linked with Voter IDs. “So far, as many as 32 crore Aadhaar numbers have been linked to Read more…
The official Aadhaar enrolment software requires the Aadhaar operator to authenticate using iris scans as well as fingerprints. Huffington Post has reported an enrolment scam in Maharashtra, where Aadhaar enrolment officer, Mangesh Sitaram Bhalerao provided people who worked under him with rubber stamp copies of his thumbprint. These rubber stamp fingerprints Read more…