Another government agency's Twitter account targetted The India Meteorological Department's (IMD) official Twitter handle was hacked for a brief amount of time during which a tweet promoting an NFT scam was posted by the hacker(s). After a few hours, the account which has 246.6k followers was restored. [embed]https://twitter.com/Indiametdept/status/1512858853930848259[/embed] This incident is the latest in a string of prominent government-handled Twitter accounts being hacked. Read: How To Protect Your Organisation’s Social Media Accounts From Hackers? Digital India Act coming soon: Rajeev Chandrasekhar A renewed policy for the digital ecosystem and cyberspace in India called the Digital India Act will be introduced by the government shortly, revealed IT Minister of State Rajeev Chandrasekhar while speaking at an event hosted at Bennett University. The policy is meant to supplant the 22-year-old IT Act. Read: India Needs A New Digital Law To Replace Outdated IT Act - Rajeev Chandrasekhar RBI proposes UPI cardless cash withdrawal for all banks Cardless cash withdrawals will be made available to all banks and ATMs using the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das proposed. A few banks like SBI, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and HDFC Bank have already been offering this facility to customers. NITI Aayog to keep tabs on PLI schemes via centralised database Government policy think tank NITI Aayog is looking to establish a centralised database in order to track the progress of companies that have availed financial rewards under the government's Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) schemes for telecom, drones, and other…
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TLDR: IMD Twitter account briefly hacked, Coinbase suspends UPI option, and VLC might be vulnerable to Chinese malware
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