Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

After the recent incidents involving corporate employees engaging in terrorist activities, there is an increasing necessity for companies to monitor the employee’s internet activities. The Hyderabad police have reportedly advised companies to monitor the social media activities of their employees … Continue reading →

Here is a demo of how an open USB port can be used by a hacker with a 30 to 60 sec access using a “USBDriveBy”. The device which is small enough to be worn around the neck (or carried in … Continue reading →

TOI has reported today that the Nagpur Bench of Mumbai High Court has dismissed a PIL filed by Advocate Mahendra Limaye demanding that What’s App should retain the data for a specified period under Section 67C of ITA 2008. The … Continue reading →

Just as the IS community is absorbing the lessons of Sony attack, the JP Morgan security breach involving a suspected data theft of 76 million records has disturbed the community. See Report  According to the New York report it appears … Continue reading →

It appears that the hacking of Sony pictures in which corporate data has been destroyed and compromised has exposed the new dimension of a kind of Cyber warfare. According to FBI, the hack was attributed to North Korean Government and … Continue reading →

Mehdi Massor Biswas the Bangalore based employee of an ITC group company  was arrested by the Police for having maintained the Twitter account Shami Witness in which he was promoting ISIS ideology. While the Police will continue their investigation and … Continue reading →