{"id":1011889,"date":"2026-06-03T09:42:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011889"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:36:07","slug":"national-testing-agency-comes-under-fresh-cybersecurity-scrutiny-over-re-exam-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/03\/national-testing-agency-comes-under-fresh-cybersecurity-scrutiny-over-re-exam-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"National Testing Agency comes under fresh cybersecurity scrutiny over re-exam platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Testing Agency (NTA) has purportedly found itself at the centre of another row after a 16-year-old cybersecurity researcher flagged alleged vulnerabilities in its re-examination portal. <\/p>\n<p>Rylen Anil, claimed that the portal has &#8220;a superadmin login bypass&#8221; with &#8220;extremely weak credentials&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This exposes bulk user data: ~7.9k observers, 676 CCs, 5.4k CS\/centers, including names, emails and phone numbers,&#8221; Anil wrote on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Testing Agency (NTA) has purportedly found itself at the centre of another row after a 16-year-old cybersecurity researcher flagged alleged vulnerabilities in its re-examination portal. Rylen Anil, claimed that the portal has &#8220;a superadmin login bypass&#8221; with &#8220;extremely weak credentials&#8221;. &#8220;This exposes bulk user data: ~7.9k observers, 676 CCs, 5.4k CS\/centers, including names, emails and phone numbers,&#8221; Anil wrote on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011911,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011889\/revisions\/1011911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}