Srinivas Kodali

Feb 13, 2025 | frontline.thehindu.com | Kalim Ahmed |Srinivas Kodali |Eshwar Sundaresan |Jinoy Jose P

On the last weekend of January, a little-known Chinese company upended the tech world’s established order. DeepSeek, a Hangzhou-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup, rattled Silicon Valley giants and sent shockwaves through global markets after releasing its AI assistant. By the end of the weekend, the AI assistant had topped the downloads chart on both Apple Inc.’s App Store and Google’s Play Store, even straining DeepSeek’s own systems to the point of temporary shutdown.

Jun 22, 2024 | thenewsminute.com | Srinivas Kodali |Maria Teresa Raju

Over the last decade, the Telangana Police has amassed giant surveillance infrastructures by creating 360 degree profiles of every resident in the state. At the heart of it is TS-COP, the police department’s flagship mobile application that allows the police to control the citizenry. The state also has over a million cameras and a large command and control centre that can process and store the information from all these cameras. These surveillance infrastructures power real-time policing.

Jun 12, 2024 | thenewsminute.com | Srinivas Kodali |Maria Teresa Raju

Over the last decade, the Telangana Police has amassed giant surveillance infrastructures by creating 360 degree profiles of every resident in the state. At the heart of it is TS-COP, the police department’s flagship mobile application that allows the police to control the citizenry. The state also has over a million cameras and a large command and control centre that can process and store the information from all these cameras. These surveillance infrastructures power real-time policing.

Jun 11, 2024 | thesouthfirst.com | Srinivas Kodali

The Telangana Police networks have been hacked by a threat actor who goes by the name of Adm1nFr1end on BreachForums. The threat actor has been selling access to both citizen data and internal police data. It shared only a few data modules inside these complex policing network systems. The breach could have been much worse because the Telangana Police networks were full of security loopholes and had no major security practices.

Jun 10, 2024 | newslaundry.com | Srinivas Kodali

The source code of TS-COP displaying access protocols for live streaming of CCTV footageThe network of the Telangana Police was hacked by an unknown threat actor who goes by the name of Adm1nFr1end and the details of the breach of the TS-COP app were published on the hacker forum BreachForums. This is the same actor who also published details of the breach of another Telangana Police app HawkEye and the Telangana Police SMS Service.