Unique Identification Authority of India, abbreviated as UIDAI, is a government-run organization based in Delhi, India. This agency is the only authorized agency that works in order to issue Aadhaar unique identification numbers (UIDs) and cards to the people of India. It has been mandated by the government to develop, identify and set up the necessary infrastructure and aides for issuing Aadhaar cards.
While it is true that the Verdict on the Constitutional validity of Aadhaar reads down the Aadhaar Act in several key areas, the overall effect is one of deep disappointment about the readiness of the Indian judiciary for the digital age. The judgment is rife with a lack of comprehension Read more…
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…
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…