{"id":16081,"date":"2017-12-28T03:59:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T03:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=16081"},"modified":"2017-12-28T03:59:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T03:59:52","slug":"cbi-arrests-its-own-software-programmer-one-other-for-scamming-indian-railways-tatkal-reservation-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/cbi-arrests-its-own-software-programmer-one-other-for-scamming-indian-railways-tatkal-reservation-system\/","title":{"rendered":"CBI arrests its own software programmer, one other for scamming Indian Railways&#8217; Tatkal reservation system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested its software programmer for developing an illicit software to subvert the railways Tatkal reservation system, allowing hundreds of tickets to be booked in one go.<\/p>\n<p>Ajay Garg, an assistant programmer with CBI, worked with IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd) for four years between 2007-2011 where he learnt the vulnerabilities of the railway ticketing system, sources said.<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cbi-ibnlive1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cbi-ibnlive1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cbi-ibnlive1.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Garg has been arrested along with close aide Anil Gupta, a private person who distributed the software to agents for a price. Besides, 10 agents \u2014 seven in Jaunpur and three in Mumbai \u2014 have been identified, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Garg, who joined CBI in 2012, exploited the vulnerabilities to develop the illegal software, which allowed agents to book hundreds of tickets in one go, leaving genuine passengers in the lurch, they said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The vulnerabilities of the IRCTC system still exist,&#8221; an official said. A postgraduate in computer applications, Garg allegedly sold the software through Gupta.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested its software programmer for developing an illicit software to subvert the railways Tatkal reservation system, allowing hundreds of tickets to be booked in one go. Ajay Garg, an assistant programmer with CBI, worked with IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd) for four years between [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,321,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-tech","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16084,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16081\/revisions\/16084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}