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US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...
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Aadhaar data of 110 crore Indian farmers exposed online due to faulty govt website

Aadhaar data of millions of Indian farmers was left exposed online owing to a bug in a government website. According to a report by security researcher Atul Nair, a part of the Indian government’s Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi website was revealing Aadhaar-associated detail of farmers’ who are benefitting under the scheme, TechCrunch reported.

Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi is an initiative by the Indian government to provide minimum basic income to all the farmers in the country. Benefits under this scheme are paid annually and farmers get up to Rs 6,000 per year as minimum income support from the government.

Now, the security researcher has said that a portion of the initiative’s website was returning farmers’ Aadhaar numbers. “PM Kisan website provides a dashboard feature to view various charts and data. An endpoint in the dashboard was leaking Aadhaar numbers of all the farmers based on region (state, district, village),” he wrote in a blog post.

Nair also said this bug could have enabled attackers to gathered all the data pertaining to the farmers in the scheme by writing a basic script leaving personal data of million of farmers exposed online. As of now, the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi website has more than 11 crore farmers are registered on the platform. This means that attackers could have easily accessed personal data of over 110 million farmers.

Notably, this is a not exactly a new discovery. Nair, in his blog post, said that he first discovered this bug back in January this year following which he flagged it off to India’s Computer Emergency Response Team or CERT-In. The bug was finally fixed last month.

This is not the first leak

It is worth noting that this is not the first time that Aadhaar details of Indian citizens have been exposed online. In the past couple of years, security researchers have documented several cases wherein Aadhaar-linked databases were left exposed online.

Back in 2019, a bug in the part of the website of the state-owned gas company Indane left Aadhaar data for dealers and distributors exposed Aadhaar details of customer online. French security researcher, Robert Baptise, who goes by Elliot Anderson on Twitter said that he found Aadhaar records of around 5.8 million Indane customers before his code was blocked by the government.

In the same year, web system that is used for recording attendance of government workers in Jharkhand was left exposed online. The bug could have easily led anyone run a basic code to access names, job titles, and partial phone numbers of roughly 166,000 government workers in the state.

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