Indian Railways has revealed it has suffered “a number of incidents … regarding breaches in various IT applications” and appears to have blamed some of them on sloppy infosec practices among staff working from home due to the COVID-10 pandemic.
The organisation’s document [PDF] announcing the cyber-transgressions says “a majority of these are application related,” but doesn’t explain what applications were impacted nor the extent of the intrusions.
Which is a little scary, as Indian Railways says it has 1.54 million people on the payroll, plus serves 13 million passengers a day, and about a million of those book tickets using what the organisation describes as “computerised reservation facilities.” The organisation is known to operate an intr ..
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