On Wednesday, Security Brigade, an Indian information security company, published a now rescinded blog post detailing how it found certain security vulnerabilities in how Aarogya Setu's code is managed, and informed CERT-In, NIC CERT (which is different from CERT-In) and the Aarogya Setu team about it, but got no response. This prompted the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to "widely circulate a statement" denouncing the company that was later retracted, as per a Hindustan Times report. Abhishek Singh, the CEO of MyGov and NeGD, confirmed to MediaNama via email that that press release has been withdrawn and a new one will be issued "soon". MediaNama had also cross-posted Security Brigade's blog yesterday but took it down at the author's request. MyGov CEO calls it 'unprofessional, unethical', says Security Brigade was given access to code in MarchSingh, who has been the face of promoting the app since its launch, told MediaNama that "the initial report that I got last night said that the code and all that they are referring to, is dated March". He further said, "Actually the whole thing is very, kind of, unprofessional, unethical on behalf of Security Brigade because what NIC, who is heading the initiative of Aarogya Setu, tells me is that Security Brigade was part of the firms which were engaged for doing the security audit through DSCI [Data Security Council of India] before the app was launched in the month of March." This caused much confusion because when the code of the Android…
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