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Study exposes vulnerability of popular mobile apps
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‘Most apps fail to use private keys to protect user data’
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How safe are the countless mobile apps that a smartphone user so whimsically installs?
The findings based on an analysis of 10,000 popular apps conducted last month by CloudSEK, a Bengaluru-based Artificial Intelligence-driven Digital Risk Management Enterprise, are not so reassuring.
The analysis done with the help of BeVigil, a free security search engine tool developed for assessing threat perception of mobile apps, found that over 40 apps with a collective download of more than 100 million were highly vulnerable endangering their internal networks and data, thanks to hardcoded AWS (Amazon Web Services) keys.
A tech solution to vaccine booking blues
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Part-time techie develops portal that alerts users of available slots on Co-WIN
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Part-time techie develops portal that alerts users of available slots on Co-WIN
As the pandemic continues its macabre dance of death, there is a maddening rush for vaccination, and booking a slot on the government’s Co-WIN portal presents a veritable challenge.
While registration on the portal goes for a song, it is booking the vaccination slot that proves tricky, and its success often seems to depend on timing and luck.
Berty Thomas, a Chennai-based business analyst, originally from Ottappalam in Palakkad district, has come up with a unique tool linked to Telegram, a popular instant messaging app, to overcome the challenge. His innovation seems to be proving immensely successful going by the sheer number of people who have subscribed to the city and district-specific telegram channels. At last count, the 145 telegram chann
Tech-savvy game COVID-19 vaccine booking to get slots, but digital illiterate fall behind
Many benefit from vaccine trackers built by techies that put urban, tech-savvy people at an advantage in the race to book slots for the jab
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As CoWIN s Application Programming Interface is public, techies can write a script to check the availability of slots
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BENGALURU: Tired of the CoWIN app not working, Raja, a resident of Kumara Park in Bengaluru, used under45.in, which sends alerts on Telegram, a messaging platform, including details of the pincode, date, name of the vaccine centre and number of slots available in your district and state, to book a slot and got the COVID jab.
Give preference to those waiting for 2nd vaccine dose, Centre to States
May 11, 2021
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The Centre has asked States to prioritise those due for the second dose of a Covid vaccine.
At a virtual high-level review meeting attended by Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan, States were asked to reserve at least 70 per cent of the vaccines supplied to them for those due for the second dose (however, States have the option of expanding this to 100 per cent) and the balance 30 per cent for those waiting to get the first shot.
On the issue of pending payments by the States for vaccines, the States were advised to constitute a dedicated team to coordinate daily with the manufacturers and secure supplies from them. This team can also coordinate with private hospitals to facilitate procurement of vaccines and thereby maintain the momentum of the vaccination exercise in the State, the statement said.