Monthly Archives: June 2015

Court Asks Facebook to reveal identity of a user

A Dutch Court has ordered Facebook to reveal the identity of a person who made a posting of an obscene video. According to Facebook, the posting was done from a fake account and was purged. The Court has however said … Continue reading

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“Dyre” threat to Indian Bank customers

The threat of “Dyre” trojan discovered a few months back seems to have been upgraded with some recent reports with the finding of some variants. Dyre is a malware targetting customers of more than 1000 banks worldwide. Indian Banks are … Continue reading

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“Infosec Credit Trading ” on the lines of Carbon Credit Trading proposed

In the domain of Global Warming and Pollution Control an innovative idea that has been used to incentivize good players and disincentivise bad players is the system of Carbon Credits. The system basically puts a cap on carbon emissions by … Continue reading

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Digital Signature Algorithms set to change?

When India started using Digital Signatures after the ITA 2000 was enacted, CCA had approved MD5 algortithm for hashing. Susequently, MD5 was disaccredited and SHA-1 was being used as approved algorithms. Global developments now indicate that time has come for users … Continue reading

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Whistle Blower Reveals Information Security Breach and Fraud at NSE

Just yesterday, we were congratulating SEBI on its intended progressive use of technology for e-IPO. Unfortunately, today we need to point out the serious security issues that remain to be addressed when IT usage is taken to critical areas such … Continue reading

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Revolution in Indian Investment Scenario in the offing

One of the most exciting manifestations of the Digital India story is in the process of being unleashed in the Indian investment scenario shortly.  The undersigned was one of the financial professionals who has seen the Capital markets in all … Continue reading

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