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Soon,these 10 intel agencies will have access to your PAN,bank details
The “furnishing and receiving of information to and from” these central agencies will be done through the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID), a robust mechanism envisaged to track suspects and prevent terrorist attacks with real-time data and access to classified information like immigration, banking, individual taxpayers, air and train travels.
After US directive,DGCA tells airlines to inspect Boeing B737s in fleet
The US aviation regulator Federal Aviation Administration asked the airlines to inspect their B737 aircraft that had not flown for seven days or more and the ones that had operated not more than 10 flights after return to service.
A senior DGCA official said the Indian regulator had asked Indian carriers SpiceJet, Vistara and Air India Express to inspect their B737 aircraft as directed by the FAA.
The emergency directive was “prompted by four single-engine shutdowns” that happened due to compromised air check valves in the engines of the certain B737 aircraft, said the FAA in its emergency directive.
Big U.S.Boeing customers want the 737 MAX but say contracts need re-set
American Airlines Chief Financial Officer Derek Kerr said the carrier is in “good discussions” with Boeing to finalize financing terms on 17 737 MAX jets that were to be delivered this year, adding that the airline still wants its full order for 100 MAX planes, over time
Plastic pollution flowing into oceans to triple by 2040:study
If no action is taken, however, the amount of plastic going into the sea every year will rise from 11 million tonnes to 29 million tonnes, leaving a cumulative 600 million tonnes swilling in the ocean by 2040, the equivalent weight of 3 million blue whales, according to the study published in the journal Science.
“Plastic pollution is something that affects everyone. It isn’t a ‘your problem and not my problem’. It’s not one country’s problem. It’s everyone’s problem,” said Winnie Lau, senior manager at Pew and co-author of the study.
Verisk releases New Ransomware Model as part of Cyber Risk Platform
The economic loss from a major systemic ransomware attack can exceed 15 billion USD, causing significant damage to the global economy, thereby making modeling such attacks critical to the insurance industry.
India watchdog bans former Deloitte partner over IL&FS unit audit
In Wednesday’s 88-page order, the NFRA said Sen failed to disclose certain facts during the audit of the infrastructure firm and was grossly negligent in performing his professional duties. Sen denied all charges of misconduct before the NFRA, the order added.
Number of registered cos reaches 20.14 lakh at June-end; over 7.4 lakh closed: Official data
The data showed that there were 20,14,969 registered companies as on June 30.
“Of them,7,46,278 companies were closed. 2,242 companies were assigned dormant status as per the Companies Act, 2013; 6,706 were under liquidation; 43,770 companies were in the process of being struck-off… there were 12,15,973 active companies as on June 30, 2020,” it said.
Update your Google Chrome browser now to avoid hackers, says CERT-In
“Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Google Chrome that could allow remote attacker to execute arbitrary code, bypass security restrictions, access sensitive information, contact spoofing attack and denial of service (DoS) attack on the targeted system,” the Computer Emergency Response Team-India (CERT-In) warned in its latest advisory.
U.S.accuses Chinese nationals of hacking spree for COVID-19 data, defense secrets
As early as Jan. 27, as the coronavirus outbreak was coming into focus, the hackers were trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine research of an unidentified Massachusetts biotech firm,
Twitter says attackers downloaded data from up to 8 non-verified
Hackers may have also attempted to sell the user names of some of the accounts, it said.
The high-profile accounts that were hacked also included rapper Kanye West, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, investor Warren Buffett, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and the corporate accounts for Uber and Apple.
In its latest statement, Twitter said attackers “manipulated a small number of employees” to gain access to the internal support tools used in the hack.