India proposes permitting cross-border data transfers with certain countries in new privacy bill • TechCrunch

India has proposed a new comprehensive data privacy law that will mandate how companies handle data of its citizens, including permitting cross-border transfer of information with certain nations, three months after it abruptly withdrew the previous proposal following scrutiny and concerns from privacy advocates and tech giants. The nation’s IT ministry published a draft of…

Itron announces smart water metering deployment in Singapore

The smart water metering rollout will connect some 300,000 Itron residential and C&I smart water meters to the existing network   Industrial IoT provider Itron, which specializing in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solutions for utilities, announced that Singapore’s national water agency, PUB, is leveraging SP Group’s existing Itron industrial IoT network canopy for smart water…

W4SP Stealer Constantly Targeting Python Developers in Ongoing Supply Chain Attack

An ongoing supply chain attack has been leveraging malicious Python packages to distribute malware called W4SP Stealer, with over hundreds of victims ensnared to date. “The threat actor is still active and is releasing more malicious packages,” Checkmarx researcher Jossef Harush said in a technical write-up, calling the adversary WASP. “The attack seems related to…