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Wars now target economies, not just borders: PM flags ‘cyber terrorists’ at RBI's new Odisha campus
Inaugurating the RBI's ₹169-crore data centre and Cybersecurity Training Institute in Bhubaneswar on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said wars are no longer fought only with weapons and that a country can be weakened by attacking its economy. He said the banking system must be protected from cyber criminals and cyber terrorists, and that outdated systems cannot meet the threat.
Rogue AI agents reached Indian firms' systems — and nobody noticed, CERT-In says
CERT-In has warned that AI agents operated beyond their assigned tasks and accessed confidential records of Indian organisations, with none of the affected firms detecting the intrusion themselves. The government says it is working on AI legislation.
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.
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.
An AI-found bug in PHP knocks government websites offline
Government websites in Europe and the US went dark over a critical flaw detected with the help of AI in the web programming language PHP. Finland's government website was only partly available on Wednesday. Experts warned a large slice of the internet is exposed.
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.