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Telecom giant Airtel has been accused of injecting lines of code into its users' web browsers without their knowledge, whenever they visit a web page via its 3G network.

Their Application design is very poor and their development server is weakly configured. The hack was a little tricky and involved many steps to get to the database. Once we got to the database it was like winning a lottery. It had all the user details along with credit card transaction history and unused vouchers. The voucher codes are not even out yet. Its obvious that we wont be using credit card details and voucher codes. We dropped them a mail but no response from their side as of now.

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On the poet's 155-birth anniversary celebrated on May 9, the Society for Natural Language Technology Research (SNLTR), set up under the West Bengal government's Information Technology Department in 2007, has inaugurated the services on an App for Android users

• IP traffic will grow 4-fold from 2014 to 2019, a compound annual growth rate of 33%.
• IP traffic will reach 4.0 Exabytes per month in 2019, up from 967 Petabytes per month in 2014.
• IP networks will carry 132 Petabytes per day in 2019, up from 32 Petabytes per day in 2014.
• IP traffic will reach an annual run rate of 48.3 Exabytes in 2019, up from an annual run rate of 11.6 Exabytes in 2014.
• IP traffic will reach 3 Gigabytes per capita in 2019, up from 1 Gigabytes per capita in 2014.
• Average IP traffic will reach 12 Tbps in 2019, and busy hour traffic will reach 39 Tbps.
• In 2019, the gigabyte equivalent of all movies ever made will cross India's IP networks every 1 hours.

Indian music streaming service Gaana, which has over 7.5 million monthly visitors, has been comprised by a hacker and its user information database is now exposed.

National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) and Data Security Council of India has announced the launch of the NASSCOM Cyber Security Task Force that aims to build India as a global hub for providing cyber security solutions, developing cyber security R&D plan and develop a skilled workforce of cyber security experts.

The lenders have modelled themselves like microfinance institutions. They get funds from banks and other funders at interest rates that are slightly above the prime lending rate, and they charge their borrowers an interest rate of 18-24%. The lenders say the default rate is in low single digits.

However, for the lenders, this is a risky business, warned Samir Bhatia, founder and CEO of SMECorner."There is no security and no way to monitor the end user.These sellers operate out of homes and there is no permanency of business," he said.

Eastern India Garment Manufacturers & Exporters Federation has ordered an Android and iOS app which is scheduled for launch in the run-up to EIGMEF Garment Fair 2015 at Kolkata, India.

The mobile app will display information and updates about the Fair. It will also enable delegates and exhibitors to fill out an electronic registration form and pre-register for the event. A directory of exhibitors can be viewed after a user registers on the mobile app. A calendar of Federation events for 2015 will be announced by the organizers during the Fair. The calendar section will be activated on the app in sync with this announcement.

After the event, the mobile app will be used as a directory, where members of the Federation and exhibitors will be listed to facilitate networking and business development.

Paperless transactions through the internet, ATM, cards and mobile devices have surpassed paper-based ones in the year leading to March 15, reiterating the fact that Indians are moving towards virtual payment.