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IANS 16 November 2023
In 2023, '123456' was the most common password among Indians and worldwide, a new report said on Thursday.   According to the password management solution company NordPass, people used the weakest passwords for their streaming accounts in 2023.   Words that refer to a specific...

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IANS 16 November 2023
Elon Musk-run X Corp (formerly Twitter) banned a record 2,34,584 accounts in India between September 26 and October 25, mostly for promoting child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity.   The micro-blogging platform, going through a churning under Musk, who has recently...

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IANS 13 November 2023
A 63-year-old man from Agra fought a battle for more than five years and attended 45 hearings, to get a sum of Rs440 from the Indian Railways.   He finally won the battle when the Agra district consumer forum court ruled in his favour, ordering the Indian Railways to hand over the...

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IANS 13 November 2023
From a massive ransomware attack on the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) that crippled its centralised records and other hospital services last year to the latest Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) data leak that allegedly exposed the personal information of at least...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 November 2023
Upholding an order passed by the state commission, the national consumer disputes redressal commission (NCDRC) directed Liberty Videocon General Insurance Co Ltd to pay Rs24.18 lakh, including the insured declared value (IDV) of the BMW 5 series car, compensation for mental agony and...

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The big shopping frenzy and the deals, discounts and offers that are part of all major festivals like Diwali, Dussehra or Christmas are enormous business opportunities for cybercriminals, too. These fraudsters thrive on robbing shoppers by luring or diverting them to fake or imitation...

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UPDATED at 10.20am on 16 November 2023 to reveal Rs342 deposited by cash by SBI in Reena's account.   State Bank of India (SBI) has unauthorisedly deducted Rs342 from a student account holder, even though its official position is that no insurance or investment service is mandatory to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 November 2023
While asking the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) to pay Rs2 lakh as a claim for death insurance, the national consumer disputes redressal commission (NCDRC) reiterated that it is upon the insurer who has rejected the claim to prove that the deceased life assured (DLA) suppressed...

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Shirish Shanbhag 09 November 2023
Car and two-wheeler parking in residential areas has become one of the top priorities for home-owners and even tenants. An adequately allotted parking space can help avoid disputes and disagreements among the residents.    In a cooperative housing society (CHS or Society), a builder...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 November 2023
While upholding an order passed by the state commission, the national consumer disputes redressal commission (NCDRC) directed Aegon Life Insurance Company Ltd to pay Rs55 lakh with 6% interest and Rs3.05 lakh as compensation and cost of litigation to the nominee of the deceased life insured...

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IANS 08 November 2023
Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, on Tuesday said that those who find themselves impacted by AI-generated deepfakes should file first information reports (FIRs) at nearest police stations and avail the remedies provided under the Information Technology (IT)...

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T Christian Miller (ProPublica) 08 November 2023
This story was originally published by ProPublica.   Blue Cross and Blue Shield denied payment for the proton therapy Robert “Skeeter” Salim’s doctor ordered to fight his throat cancer. But he was no ordinary patient. He was a celebrated litigator. And he was ready to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 November 2023
While upholding an order passed by the state commission, the national consumer disputes redressal commission (NCDRC) directed L&T Housing Finance Ltd to pay Rs3 lakh compensation with 6%pa (per annum) interest and Rs25,000 cost for failing to return the original title deeds of a borrower in a...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 07 November 2023
A new class-action lawsuit accuses SharkNinja of defying the “laws of physics and thermodynamics” by falsely advertising its NeverStick Nonstick Cookware as heated to a temperature roughly three times the surface of the sun.   SharkNinja claims that the cookware gets its superior...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 November 2023
Expressing displeasure over the selective exclusion in settling a third-party claim in a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) or cooking gas blast case, the national consumer disputes redressal commission (NCDRC) directed National Insurance Co Ltd to pay the balance Rs15 lakh with 9% interest to the...

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Last month, US-based cybersecurity and intelligence firm Resecurity mentioned that a threat actor going by the alias 'pwn0001' posted a thread on breach forums brokering access to 815mn (million) records of Aadhaar and passport details of Indian citizens. Resecurity found one of the leaked...

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Shirish Shanbhag 02 November 2023
Every member of a cooperative housing society (CHS) has an equal right and should be able to access and examine the Society's documents which are maintained by the managing committee of the Society. However, sometimes managing committee members are less inclined to disclose documents, either...

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Shirish Shanbhag 27 October 2023
Among the various expenses that home-buyers have to bear are the transfer charges that cooperative housing societies (CHS) levy on the sale and transfer of shares to the flats in a building. A transfer premium, which ranges anywhere from Rs25,000 to even a percentage of the purchase...

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Fraud originating from the infamous scam clusters such as Jamtara, Indore, or Mewat regions of India is thriving, but what is more worrisome is the use of sophisticated tools and authentic-looking 'sets' by criminals. Most new-age criminals operate as a gang, with each member handling...

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IANS 26 October 2023
A man, who eagerly waited for Flipkart's Big Billion Days sale to buy a Sony TV so that he could watch and enjoy the ongoing ICC Men's ODI World Cup, was left shocked when the TV turned out to be a low-priced TV from another brand when he opened the box.   The man known by the...

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