News Pointed Staff 
Employees of ByteDance, the China-based company that owns TikTok and its Chinese counterpart Douyin, accessed data from TikTok to track a Financial Times reporter and a former BuzzFeed reporter in a bid to identify the source of leaks to the media, ByteDance’s general counsel Erich Andersen admitted in an email seen by Agence France Presse (AFP) on December 23, 2022. On … Read more
In the name of maintenance in Shivpuri district, continuous power cuts are being done by the power distribution company Shivpuri. Today once again electricity supply will be closed on 33 KV Khataura, 33 KV Ghasarai and 11 KV Sailing Club electricity feeder on 2nd November to do the necessary maintenance work by the power distribution … Read more
In the first-ever visit by any Indian warship in four years, INS Satpura arrived in Suva, Fiji in the South Pacific Ocean as part of its operational deployment in the Pacific region. The visit is aimed at strengthening friendship and cooperation between the two nations. Notably, the ship will be open for visitors, and the … Read more
Actor Kamaal Rashid Khan was arrested in Mumbai on Tuesday due to a controversial tweet he wrote in 2020, media reports said. Khan, who was detained at the Mumbai airport Monday night, will be produced before a magistrate court in Borivali later in the day, according to officials. He was arrested by the Malad police. … Read more
Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad was detained today at the Jodhpur airport, on his way to meet the family of the Dalit boy killed by his teacher in Rajasthan last month. He has been stopped from traveling to Jalore, the official said. The boy killing has triggered massive anger and a political backlash in Congress-ruled … Read more
In a major accident in Jammu and Kashmir, a bus carrying 37 Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) jawans and 2 J-K policemen fell to the riverbed in Pahalgam after a reported brake failure. A massive rescue operation was launched after a bus with more than 30 security personnel – from the ITBP (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) and … Read more
Heavy rains set off flash floods that killed at least 32 people and left dozens missing in northern Afghanistan, the Taliban’s state-run news agency reported Monday. According to the Afghanistan Department of Meteorology, which has issued a warning for potential flash floods in other provinces, including Nangarhar, tomorrow might bring heavy rain and flash floods … Read more
Researchers have found a new PyPI package named ‘secretslib‘ that drops file-less crypto-miner to the memory of Linux machine systems. The package in question (now gone from the PyPI) was named “secretslib” which “describes itself as ‘secrets matching and verification made easy’,” according to Sonatype Researchers Who have found it. It achieves this by executing a Linux … Read more
Security Researchers have discovered at least 9,000 exposed VNC (virtual network computing) servers that can be exposed online due to not using any authentication. It will allow threat actors to easily access their internal networks. Virtual Network Computing is a graphical desktop-sharing system that uses the Remote Frame Buffer protocol to remotely control another computer. … Read more
Intelligence agencies have issued a high alert in New Delhi and some parts of India ahead of Independence Day celebrations. The Delhi Police is making constant attempts to ensure impregnable security in the national capital on the occasion of Independence Day, by keeping an eye on the potential terror modules and “anti-social elements” in the … Read more