Apple Hacking Row

Members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology (IT) are likely to raise the 'Apple warning' issue in the next meeting of the panel.

A parliamentary panel on information technology is likely to summon Apple Inc officials over the iPhone notifications row, triggered by opposition leaders alleging they received alerts from Apple indicating their devices could have been targeted.

Days before Apple warned some users, including opposition MPs in India, of "state-sponsored attackers" trying to remotely compromise their devices, a government advisory had addressed "multiple vulnerabilities" in the company's products.

Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday dismissed the allegations in connection with Apple's 'state-sponsored attack' message to some Opposition leaders and said that someone might have played a prank on them.

In an exclusive interview with NDTV, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said "convergence of the leading tech nations of the world" around making user safety the primary objective for any tech policymaking is a good forward step.

Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar brushed off Opposition concerns about phone hacking following a notification from Apple, saying, "It is the election season and people will pull all sorts of things from a hat".

The 2020 spring edition of the Pwn2Own hacking competition has ended, with Team Fluoroacetate being crowned this year's winners as they scored nine Master of Pwn points.

In other news, India Post will become a bank in post-demonetised India.

Members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology (IT) are likely to raise the 'Apple warning' issue in the next meeting of the panel.

A parliamentary panel on information technology is likely to summon Apple Inc officials over the iPhone notifications row, triggered by opposition leaders alleging they received alerts from Apple indicating their devices could have been targeted.

Days before Apple warned some users, including opposition MPs in India, of "state-sponsored attackers" trying to remotely compromise their devices, a government advisory had addressed "multiple vulnerabilities" in the company's products.

Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday dismissed the allegations in connection with Apple's 'state-sponsored attack' message to some Opposition leaders and said that someone might have played a prank on them.

In an exclusive interview with NDTV, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said "convergence of the leading tech nations of the world" around making user safety the primary objective for any tech policymaking is a good forward step.

Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar brushed off Opposition concerns about phone hacking following a notification from Apple, saying, "It is the election season and people will pull all sorts of things from a hat".

The 2020 spring edition of the Pwn2Own hacking competition has ended, with Team Fluoroacetate being crowned this year's winners as they scored nine Master of Pwn points.

In other news, India Post will become a bank in post-demonetised India.