Reports and Investigations Data Security at IITK Our institute website, iitk.ac.in recently got hacked into, with a threat that all of our data had been deleted from our servers. Many of our institute webpages have previously been hacked into. Some webpages have such low security, that students inside our institute have been able to find out a number of loopholes in our websites. Is our institute taking any measures to handle the cyber security issues and create a robust framework? And if not, what is that we, as students, should do to prevent such malpractices? Written by Vox Populi July 31, 2022July 31, 2022
Institute Reports and Investigations A Brief Timeline of the Security Issue on Campus On 31st August, a postgraduate student at IIT Kanpur told the Students’ Senate about her horrific experience with the Institute security. She alleged being threatened and verbally abused by Mr. Sandeep Shivare, the Security Officer (SO) at IIT. This is not an isolated incident. The meeting of the Senate was the culmination of a series […] Written by Vox Populi September 6, 2017May 15, 2021