#cyber-security
RBI data centre and cyber training institute to open in Bhubaneswar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the RBI's new data centre and Cybersecurity Training Institute in Bhubaneswar on October 25. The facility is certified to the Uptime Institute Tier IV standard, the highest tier for data centre resilience.
C-DOT sets up 6G and AI research centre at IIT (BHU) Varanasi
The Centre for Development of Telematics, the telecom R&D arm of the Department of Telecommunications, has set up its sixth Centre of Excellence at IIT (BHU), Varanasi. The centre will focus on 5G Advanced and 6G, AI-driven communication, quantum and cybersecurity.
SBI weighs data leak impact as RBI tells banks to forensically clear tech after a breach
SBI is assessing the impact of a customer data breach and has alerted its cyber insurance provider. The RBI has told banks and payment firms to forensically clear their technology environments and confirm they are safe after any data breach.
CoinDCX confirms $16 million loss from old, compromised wallets
Crypto exchange CoinDCX has acknowledged that some users kept depositing funds into deprecated wallets linked to its July 2025 breach, leading to losses of about $16 million. The company says customer funds are safe and it absorbed the loss.
Critical PHP flaws send Indian firms scrambling to patch servers
Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the language behind most Indian websites, have triggered a patch rush, especially among small firms. Hackers could take over internet-facing servers without logging in. CERT-In has asked organisations to update vulnerable systems.
SBI says 3,897 customer records exposed on dark web; 'preliminary', bank tells exchanges
SBI disclosed a data loss incident after an alert that customer data was suspected to be exposed on the dark web. A preliminary analysis found 3,897 customer records with personally identifiable information among about 3.75 lakh records. The bank said it was alerted on October 16 by its threat-intelligence provider, the Defence Cyber Agency and CERT-In.
Security keys behind millions of website certificates were so weak, one was just '4'
Eight private keys of Indian certificate authority eMudhra's intermediate certificates were compromised, generated with too little randomness and recoverable from public certificates. One key was literally the number 4. Chrome, Firefox, Apple and Microsoft moved to block the certificates within hours.