Telegram bots automating piracy

Automated bots bypass the copyright infringement methods of the application, spreading pirated content online. Despite global courts ordering Telegram, an online messaging application, to block the distribution of copyrighted media on their platform, various programmers and developers are altering the features of the application and building add-ons like automated bots to circulate pirated content online. […]

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IISc has a DREAM to protect airspaces

Researchers say that several limitations of existing counter-drone ideas can be resolved by DREAM. Researchers in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a novel approach called Dynamic Resource Allocation with decentralised Multi-task Assignment (DREAM) to safeguard airspace and infrastructure from intruding drones. Suresh Sundaram, Associate Professor in […]

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Biometric attendance systems lack maintenance while experts raise security concerns

Mandated biometric attendance systems for teachers are not updated while experts believe that such systems for both students and teachers are running with no knowledge about security laws. Bengaluru; Biometric attendance system is not working properly in Karnataka colleges due to lack of funds, say officials. Moreover, experts believe that the system has data breach […]

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Good Samaritan hackers face hurdles

IT laws prosecuting ethical hackers remain unchanged as cases of data breach increase Bangalore April 9 2018: A Reddit user named, always_say_this, exposed the vulnerabilities—like gaining access to bank account details, passwords, names of customers etc.—of the servers belonging to Truecaller Pay and Tata Sky. He expected to get rewarded, get or job or simply acknowledged but instead was […]

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