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.
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…
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…
Poem: Ramu Ramanathan Narration: Puja Sarup Hello Mr Aadhaar! Will you stop playing the fool! My biometric is complaining! You are changing all the rules! All of this began, in another age When you pinged me: a message: Oye Citizen Ji: Your existence is a top secret deal It’ll be 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…