{"id":236,"date":"2007-05-16T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/vfs-plugs-security-hole\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T18:50:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:50:44","slug":"vfs-plugs-security-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/vfs-plugs-security-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"VFS plugs security hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an update to my earlier posting on the <a href=\"http:\/\/sanjibmitra.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/identity-leakage.html\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">VFS<\/span> security breach<\/a> on the 10<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">th<\/span> of May.<\/p>\n<p>I am pleased to write that this security breach on the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">VFS<\/span> UK India website has now been rectified, thanks to the timely action taken by Davey Winder, and the co-operation of the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">VFS<\/span> India IT department. He has published an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daniweb.com\/blogs\/entry1466.html\">article <\/a>on this yesterday which describes the sequence of events that led to the resolution of this serious issue.<\/p>\n<p>Having run out of avenues to turn to in an attempt to get someone to take notice, Davey Winder was my obvious last resort. I am quite thankful to Davey for approaching this in a very responsible and proactive way, and for his genuine concern and understanding about the implications this could possibly have.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, I can only reveal that I am in touch with UK government officials to aid in their investigations so that such breaches are not repeated in the future.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sub1\"><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">Update <\/span>17 <span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">th<\/span> <\/span>May: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnn.gov.uk\/content\/detail.asp?NewsAreaID=2&amp;ReleaseID=285359\">Statement by Lord <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">Triesman<\/span><\/a>, UK Secretary of State, Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office. Announces an independent government investigation into this breach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sub1\"><strong>Update<\/strong> 14th August: Results of the investgation are out. More details on this <a href=\"http:\/\/sanjibmitra.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/report-of-investigation-into-uk-visa.html\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an update to my earlier posting on the VFS security breach on the 10th of May. I am pleased to write that this security breach on the VFS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-think"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjibmitra.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}