ZSecure, a security consulting company which made a few ripples last year when it announced vulnerabilities detected on HDFC's website, has made a similar discovery, this time with payback.in. Payback is a firm providing loyalty (reward points) programs for customers, in partnership with a number of well known brands.

India Today reports that TRAI data indicates that the highest number of consumer complaints were registered against Bharti Airtel in 2011-2012. This information was presented in Parliament by the Minister of State for IT, Milind Deora.
Out of the total number of such complaints received by Trai during 2011-12, 1,165 complaints were against Bharti Airtel, followed by 654 against Vodafone and 647 against Reliance, Deora said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.

Since the beginning of this month, certain ISPs have been blocking access to streaming video and torrent sites on their networks. As of today, just about every ISP in the country is reported to be blocking the following sites:

DNA has a story on the government setting up a website (and a call centre) to allow for RTI applications to be submitted and tracked online.

NIXI is reported to be working on the introduction of Internationalised domain name support for the .in registry. Internationalised domain names allow for multilingual domains such as the following:

• हिन्दी.com [Hindi]
• http://தமிழ்.idn.sg [Tamil]
• http://മലയാളം.com [Malayalam]

A Swedish security consultant, Dan Egerstad, has released the passwords of over a 100 e-mail accounts belonging to embassies worldwide including those of India.

LUG - Delhi maintains a list (dubbed the Hall of Shame) of government and other (deemed) critical websites that force users to use proprietary technology (usually Internet explorer) to access their pages.