Breach of Air India data poses litigation risk for airline, experts say
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It could further delay the privatisation process, they say
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It could further delay the privatisation process, they say The breach of passenger data at Air India may pose litigation risks for the airline that could further delay the privatisation process, warn experts, adding that the national carrier must prioritise efforts to contain the damage from the cyber attack by informing passengers about steps they can still take to prevent fraud.
In a press statement, the airline said that its passenger processing system, supplied by multi-national information technology company SITA, was a target of a sophisticated cyber attack on February 25. Nearly 45 lakh “data subjects” registered over a period of 10 years between August 2011 to February 2021 were affected around the world, including passengers of other airlines such as Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa, Cathay Pacific, United
Vaccine portal faces glitches
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‘Apps unable to deal with volumes lead to disappointments’
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Senior citizens getting registered for vaccination at Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital in Delhi on Monday.
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‘Apps unable to deal with volumes lead to disappointments’
Eager senior citizens waiting for their turn to register for COVID-19 vaccine on Monday had technology come in their way as the CoWIN portal showed errors or displayed a message that the server was busy.
While the government claimed that over one million registrations were done in the first few hours, many took to Twitter to express problems that they faced with the portal.
IT firms’ B2B2C model comes at a premium
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The B2B2C, or business-to-business-to-consumer, model has seen a huge jump in demand after the Covid-19 outbreak disrupted operations of businesses globally.
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Mumbai | Bengaluru: Technology services firms are charging a premium for a new business model that focuses on developing solutions for the end users of their clients.
The B2B2C, or business-to-business-to-consumer, model has seen a huge jump in demand after the Covid-19 outbreak disrupted operations of businesses globally.
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Such opportunities to co-develop technology platforms for their clients end-users across various sectors is allowing technology services providers, such as
Tenkasi Days: Sridhar Vembu’s global village
× The soul of India lives in its villages declared Mahatma Gandhi nearly a century ago. But it was the cities that moved the wheels of commerce and where the talent and spotlight shifted. Until Sridhar Vembu, the charismatic founder of Zoho Corp, took it upon himself to prove that the village could be a coding hub of creativity and commerce.
Vembu, recently awarded the Padma Shri award, argues that it was a decision based on first principles to move to a rural outpost near Tenkasi in southern Tamil Nadu nearly a decade ago, and no quixotic ideals. Cities were getting crowded, polluted, facing water shortage and things needed to change. But it’s taken a pandemic during which work from anywhere became an accepted notion to prove how far-sighted was his premise.