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My security reduced, mobile phones being tapped, alleges Anam Ramanarayana Reddy- The New Indian Express

February 1, 2023/in Mobile Security

By Express News Service

NELLORE: Once again YSRC MLA Anam Ramanarayana Reddy made serious remarks against the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government for reducing his security. Continuing his criticism of the ruling YSRC, Anam said, “A political uncertainty has prevailed in Venkatagiri Assembly constituency. People need to observe who are responsible for the present situation.”

Explaining the powers of a legislator, Anam said the local MLA was not being invited to local bodies meetings in the constituency, which is unfair. “I will continue as a legislator till the end of my term. The State government has reduced my security.

I have asked the officials to remove my security totally. I have faced a lot of struggles in the past four decades of my political life. I have been waiting for the decision of people. There are three groups in the ruling YSRC in Venkatagiri,” he observed. The Venkatagiri MLA alleged that two of his mobile phones were being tapped for the last two years.

Anam said he was forced to use WhatsApp and other apps to speak to his children. The MLA made it clear that though he is aware of phone tapping, he is not going to lodge any complaint against anyone. Commenting on the State politics, Anam underlined the need for a third front. People had given a thumping majority to Jagan in the last elections.

The three-and-a-half year’s rule of the YSRC has evoked a mixed responde from people. Intellectuals, political analysts and people need to think about how the regional parties will serve the State, he said.

NELLORE: Once again YSRC MLA Anam Ramanarayana Reddy made serious remarks against the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government for reducing his security. Continuing his criticism of the ruling YSRC, Anam said, “A political uncertainty has prevailed in Venkatagiri Assembly constituency. People need to observe who are responsible for the present situation.” Explaining the powers of a legislator, Anam said the local MLA was not being invited to local bodies meetings in the constituency, which is unfair. “I will continue as a legislator till the end of my term. The State government has reduced my security. I have asked the officials to remove…

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No mobile-hotspots, external routers for internet inside AIIMS compound after recent cyber attack- The New Indian Express

December 2, 2022/in Internet Security

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Wednesday issued fresh directive to tighten the cyber security after the ransomware attack on its servers more than a week ago.
In view of the major cyber attack that has jolted the digital patient care delivery services at AIIMS, the institute has resorted to take additional measures to tighten the cyber security in the campus.

In its additional security measure, the top medical institute has asked everyone to not create mobile hotspots within the hospital premises and no LAN or router should be connected to the institute’s network.

“No router/hub etc. should be connected to AIIMS network port by any user. Also, no computer system (desktop/laptop), which is on AIIMS LAN, may be connected to mobile hotspot,” an internal circular accessed by this newspaper, read. “This is done to prevent the attackers use any external device for hacking further into the network,” a department official said. Meanwhile, the hospital is trying to recover the data saved on main and back-up servers.

“The e-hospital data has been restored on the servers. Network is being sanitized before the services can be restored. The process is taking some time due to the volume of data and large number of servers/computers for the hospital services. Measures are being taken for cyber security,” the institute said in a statement.

However, sources said that the data that the institute claims to have restored is only a chunk saved on the second back-up server which was saved from ransomware attack. “Only 30-40% data would have been recovered. The major share was uploaded on the main and back-up server which is still under hacker’s control,” an official said. All work continues to happen manually.

NEW DELHI: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Wednesday issued fresh directive to tighten the cyber security after the ransomware attack on its servers more than a week ago. In view of the major cyber attack that has jolted the digital patient care delivery services at AIIMS, the institute has resorted to take additional measures to tighten the cyber security in the…

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Personal data of over 33,000 Kannur varsity students in hackers’ forum- The New Indian Express

November 21, 2022/in Computer Security

Express News Service

KOCHI: In a major data leak, details of over 33,000 students of Kannur University were found on a dark web portal. Kochi-based private cyber security firm Technisanct, while scanning dark web activities, found it available since November 18.

It was a hacker by the name- ‘3Subs’ who leaked five databases from 2018 to 2022 containing 33,040 records of Kannur University. The leaked data includes name, application number, email, password, Aadhar number, phone number, admission details and pass year. There are 321 records from 2018, 7,060 from 2019, 9,127 from 2020, 8648 from 2021 and 7,874 records from 2022 on the portal.

Nandakishore Harikumar, founder and CEO of Technisanct, said they have verified the leaked data and found that they are authentic. “We suspect that the leak happened from the university’s candidate portal. We found that the application numbers and information of students are authentic. This might have happened due to the vulnerability of Kannur University’s website. Most likely the hackers have accessed the database of the website,” he said.

The data appeared in one of the hackers’ forums on the dark web. There are credits available at the hackers’ forums using which the leaked data can be accessed. These data can also be misused for cyber crimes like phishing, identity theft, hacking and financial fraud. “It would only cost four to five cents. The data can be downloaded using the credits,” Nandkishore said.

A spokesperson of Kannur University said that no hacking has come to their notice yet. “We have no information about any data leak or hack. We also did not receive any complaints in this regard from students and others. However, we will check whether any such data leak has taken place,” he said.

Last year, Technisanct detected a leak of data containing the personal information of 4.5 million people from the public distribution system of Tamil Nadu. Technisanct regularly reports to Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) India when such hacks and leaks come to its notice. “We have written to CERT about the new data leak on Sunday. It is up to the university to identify the…

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