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

Who is causing denial of access?

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

When some spamming is detected by web hosting companies or spam filters, the concerned IP addresses are blocked automatically. At present I have observed that BSNL ip addresses are frequently found in the blocked lists. When a particular IP address … Continue reading →

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Botnet steals US$6 million from advertisers

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

Simulating visitors to a website who click on advertisements, a botnet named “Chameleon” is reported to have stolen around US$ 6 million in the form of false clicks on advertisements. The botnet used about 120000 hosts simulating the ad-clicking. Report:  … Continue reading →

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Cyber attack on South Korea

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

South Korean networks were down in what is believed to be a Cyber Attack from North Korea. The attack has crippled Bank transactions including the ATM networks. Report here:

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MD5 to SHA256..but password cracking becomes easier

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

In an interesting evelations, it is stated that CISCO has recently started using a different method for storing user’s passwords which involves shifting from MD5 to SHA 256 which makes passwords more vulnerable to cracking. We are aware that MD5 … Continue reading →

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Delhi High Court Decision hurts Digital Media

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

Delhi High Court has recently held that “Dissemination of ball by ball information of a cricket match” is not included in “Press Freedom”. In a strange decision the Court has held that Press should confine its activities to report only … Continue reading →

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Brazillian Doctors expose the vulnerability in Biometric systems

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

According to a report from Brazil,  5 doctors in a hospital in Sao Paulo were discovered to have bogus silicone digits and recorded the presence of some of their friends. It is estimated that there were around 300 bogus doctors … Continue reading →

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