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Government of the messenger's largest market demands a pause while Meta explains how it plans to stop impersonators
Police found cameras pointing at infrastructure Indian authorities have reportedly ordered an audit of the nation’s CCTV cameras, after police uncovered what they claim was a Pakistan-backed surveillance operation.…
Government is fed up with bad actors using digi-cash to fund dodgy deeds India’s government has updated the regulations it imposes on cryptocurrency services providers, as part of its efforts to combat fraud, money laundering, and terrorism.…
Says ongoing talks about security are about understanding best practice, not strong-arming vendors India’s government has denied that it is working on rules that would require smartphone manufacturers to provide access to their source code.…
Extra infosec investments are taxiing towards the runway India’s Civil Aviation Minister has revealed that local authorities have detected GPS spoofing and jamming at eight major airports.…
'Sanchar Saathi' shares data to help fight fraud and protect carrier security India’s government has issued a directive that requires all smartphone manufacturers to install a government app on every handset in the country and has given them 90 days to get the job done – and to ensure users can’t remove the code.…
PLUS: India wants to build big airliners; Half of South Koreans caught in data leak; Minimum wage for gig workers in Oz; And more! Asia in Brief Singapore’s government last week told Google and Apple to prevent fake government messages.…
PLUS: US court grounds China’s DJI; India requires 2FA for most payments; Great Firewall busters launch VPN; and more! Asia In Brief Over 600 e-government services operated by South Korea’s government are offline after a datacenter fire disrupted operations.…
PLUS: Malaysia teams with Arm for local chip designs; NTT warns of possible breach; Samsung strikers settle; and more Asia in Brief India’s government has proposed giving its tax authorities sweeping powers to access private email systems and applications.…
India makes it onto list of likely threats for the first time A report by Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE) revealed that state-backed actors have collected valuable information from government networks for five years.…
Report claims India's government, which is accused of using Pegasus at home, was displeased Apple has made a significant change to the wording of its threat notifications, opting not to attribute attacks to a specific source or perpetrator, but categorizing them broadly as "mercenary spyware."…
Nonprofit SFLC links orders to farming protests The global government affairs team at X (née Twitter) has suspended some accounts and posts in India after receiving executive orders to do so from the country's government, backed by threat of penalties including significant fines and imprisonment.…
Activists worry investigations may stay secret, and then there's those odd incident reporting requirements India's government has granted its Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT-In, immunity from Right To Information (RTI) requests – the nation's equivalent of the freedom of information queries in the US, UK, or Australia.…
Nobody knows which state, but India’s government never quite shrugged off claims it uses spyware Indian politicians and media figures have reported that Apple has warned them their accounts may be under attack by state-sponsored actors.…
PLUS: Vietnam's free domain names for youngsters; China's Cuba spy base; Hyundai and Samsung team for car chips; and more Asia In Brief India's government has denied its Co-WIN COVID-19 vaccination management platform has leaked data, but ordered an investigation into the program's security.…
Consultation for the long-awaited Digital India Act is finally under way although the draft law's still not been revealed India's government has started to consult some proposed details of its long-awaited Digital India Act, including a declaration that the bill needed a dedicated adjudicatory tool for offenses committed online.…
PLUS: Taiwan’s new supercomputer; China-linked cybercrims strike; Australian content clampdown; and more Asia In Brief India's IT minister has signaled he is willing to revisit a proposal to use government fact checkers to decide what is fake news that should be removed from social media.…
PLUS: China’s digital currency surges; Infosys tax portals wobble again; Singapore crypto protections; and more Asia In Brief India's government has given itself the power to compel social networks to take down content.…
60 days becomes five months and counting, without any indication government can process or learn from flood of trivial incident reports India's minister of state for electronics and information technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, has hinted strongly that he will again extend the deadline to comply with sweeping new information security reporting rules that were imposed as an essential national defence mechanism.…
PLUS: Warnings on Chinese payment schemes; AWS brushes up its Cantonese; Hong Kong ponders digital dollar; and more! Asia In Brief India's government last week released a draft telco law that defines all over-the-top services as telecoms providers and therefore makes them subject to the same regulations imposed on carriers.…