Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

About Vijayashankar Na

Naavi is a veteran Cyber Law specialist in India and is presently working from Bangalore as an Information Assurance Consultant. Pioneered concepts such as ITA 2008 compliance, Naavi is also the founder of Cyber Law College, a virtual Cyber Law Education institution. He now has been focusing on the projects such as Secure Digital India and Cyber Insurance

RBI …Bitcoin

Posted on December 22, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

[P.S: Kindly Note that subsequent to writing of this post in December 2013, and observing the lack of self regulatory attitude of the Bitcoin managers and the continuing use of the Bitcoin by criminals, Naavi has clarified his view on … Continue reading →

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Did RSA Compromise on its integrity?

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

The security community suffered a shock recently when it was realized that NSA had paid $10 million to push through a encryption technology promoted by the agency through a RSA product. It is understood that NSA promoted a Dual Elliptical … Continue reading →

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Richest Bitcoin Owner

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

Though Bitcoin holdings in wallets are expressed in terms of hash values and donot publicly reveal the name of the owner, the transactions from one address to another are always public (part of the block chain). By systematically studying the … Continue reading →

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More Credit Card frauds in store

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

Recently a fraud of Rs 63 lakhs involving  gross negligence by Bank employees not ruling out their involvement. It is said that the Bank believed that the customer had a sore throat and executed large transactions including closing of FDs … Continue reading →

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Is China playing out a Bitcoin Strategy?.. What should India do?

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

After what appeared to be a silent prop up of Bitcoin  by China, over the last one week, China announced a series of measures that are now seen as a regulatory backlash. In the process BTC climbed upto US$ 1300 … Continue reading →

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USA moves towards “Health Care for All”

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

The much debated “Obama Care” or “Affordable Care Act” on which the US Government faced a “Shut Down” recently has started getting active. The Act which envisages that every US citizen will get a health insurance at affordable cost without … Continue reading →

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