Title of article Source Location Date Fraud Online banking fraud racket busted – 4 including kingpin held Hindustan Times Delhi 25-05-2018 Banking Fraud Aadhaar-link con calls may wipe out your bank balance The Times of India Lucknow 13-05-2018 Phishing Scam Credit card fraud: 3 nabbed in Bengal Times of India Read more…
Title of article Source Location Date Fraud How Aadhaar in Database Other Documents Fringe area tenants under cop scanner The Telegraph Palamu 23-09-2018 Property rent Forged NA Y Aligarh killings: Police to quiz ex-SP MLA over ‘fake encounter’ charge The Times of India Aligarh 23-09-2018 NA NA NA Y Two Read more…
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…
Vulnerability reported in resident.uidai.gov.in allows anyone to change content on the UIDAI website. The UIDAI Resident Portal has direct access to Aadhaar demographic data. The vulnerability (XSS) allows anyone to embed any tweet on the UIDAI website The Vulnerability The UIDAI Resident Portal (with read access to entire Aadhaar Demographic data) 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…
ആധാര്‍ കേസില്‍ ഭരണഘടനാബെഞ്ച് രൂപീകരിക്കാതെ നവംബര്‍ മാസവും കടന്നുപോയി. 851 ദിവസങ്ങള്‍ പിന്നിടുന്നു, ഭരണഘടനാബെഞ്ച് രൂപീകരിക്കാന്‍ സുപ്രീംകോടതി തീരുമാനിച്ചിട്ട്. 2 വര്‍ഷവും 3 മാസവും 21 ദിവസവും. അവസാനമായി ആധാര്‍ കേസില്‍ കോടതി വാദം കേട്ടു എന്ന് പറയാവുന്നത് 2015 ആഗസ്ത് മാസത്തിലാണ്. രാജ്യത്തെ മുഴുവന്‍ ജനങ്ങളെയും ബാധിക്കുന്ന, നമ്മുടെ വ്യവസ്ഥിതിയുടെ തന്നെ ഭാഗധേയം നിര്‍ണയിക്കാന്‍ പോന്ന ഒരു ബൃഹത് പദ്ധതിയുടെ ഭരണഘടനാ സാധുതയാണ് പരിശോധിക്കപ്പെടേണ്ടത്. 2015ലെ വിധിയ്ക്ക് വിരുദ്ധമായി 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…
March 2018: In yet another classic case of hacking the biometric authentication system, 27 people were arrested in what was described as “hi-tech cheating” by a senior official in the Rajasthan Police Constable Entrance Examination 2018. The accused said they learnt the art of making a thumb-print clone on youtube. 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…