Cyber enthusiasts from India routinely expose loopholes in corporate websites and software, earning small financial rewards.
The company said the flaw affected almost 50 million accounts, and Facebook logged 90 million people off their accounts as a safety measure.
Facebook has been headless for an year in India after its MD Umang Bedi left in October last year.
If people lose confidence in Facebook’s handling of their personal information, they may spend less time or share less on the social network, limiting the company’s ability to make money from their activity.
Facebook said attackers stole Facebook access tokens through its "view as" feature, which they could then use to take over people's accounts.
Smart manufacturing, utilities and mobility applications such as automotive and asset tracking will be the key growth drivers for IoT over the next 5-7 years.
Earlier this year, the Commission told the tech industry, including Facebook and Google, and the advertising industry to draft a code of practice or face regulatory action over what it said were their failure to do enough to remove misleading or illegal content.
“We can say that this position is equivalent to that of a legal head for WhatsApp in India,” a person familiar with the development told ET.
Jio this month gave its more than 25 million JioPhone customers, many of them first-time internet users, access to WhatsApp at a time when the messaging service is battling false and incendiary texts and videos circulating on its platform.
When it comes to overall mobile video experience, India joins Iran and the Philippines below the "Fair" threshold into "Poor" territory (0-40), said London-based wireless coverage mapping company OpenSignal.
The deployment will create significant high speed data and voice capacity within the network to serve the explosive surge in mobile usage, driven by affordable smartphones and tariffs, he said.
Mohan's appointment ends Facebook's one-year search for an India head, a role which became vacant following former managing director Umang Bedi's departure in October last year.
The ambitious plan to provide wi-fi connectivity across Bengaluru was in the backburner for long.
The update mentions that users can seek help through the mobile app, send an email or write in to 'Komal Lahiri', who is based out of the US.
The 'cyber trivia' app would have a set of multiple choice questions and children would rewarded points based on their answers, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights said.
"India is unique. You have this highly educated population of tech entrepreneurs and start-ups and then you go into villages which are like a different world altogether.
Across the world, there are several senior people who have taken to Instagram to stay connected with their loved ones.
A group of Google employees who were organising internal protests over the censored search system got access to the memo detailing information about the project.
A bug in Twitter's platform for third-party app developers exposed some Direct Messages (DMs) from nearly 3 million users to outsiders, the micro-blogging platform has admitted.
MeitY is drafting a letter asking it to design a solution to the viral messages that in the past have led to lynchings.
With the help of this application, in the last season, 16,000 farmers earned an additional income of about Rs 10,000 each.
The row has erupted amid heightened debate about user privacy and how technology firms treat data in India and abroad. India is developing a new data protection law which could force companies to change how they transfer or store customer data.
Cisco has been one of the most enthusiastic participants in India’s digitalisation initiatives. Former CEO John Chambers and current CEO Chuck Robbins have made frequent visits to India.
After facing a backlash over reports in July that third-party app developers can read your Gmail, Google has once again defended its policy to allow third-party apps to access and share data from Gmail accounts.
The report 'Understanding consumer choice towards mobile applications' is based on a consumer survey, conducted by Nielsen, to understand the app preference of Indian consumers and the reasons driving such preferences.
DigiCert already works with many companies and consortiums using PKI to authenticate, encrypt and provide integrity for their connected devices.
Amendments by sectoral regulators bringing their regulations in line with the Bill may also be considered on a case by case basis.
A key indicator of this shift is that 11 of the 15 most retweeted messages by Indian politicians in the last year have been in Hindi.
Some analysts say the government’s demand from WhatsApp is reasonable and the company could provide traceability using metadata without compromising on encryption.
In July, a government panel recommended that all "critical personal data" should be processed in India, and presented a draft bill that could affect how global firms store customer data.
Google announced a new tool "Work Insights" that entitles admins with more visibility and monitoring control into the ways that G-Suite is deployed and utilised in their organisations.