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

Charter of Demand on behalf of Netizens of Bangalore

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

Naavi has developed a charter of demand on behalf of the Netizens of Bangalore in the context of the forthcoming polls. Details are available at http://www.aifon.org.in/wp/?p=87 The essential part of the demand are: 1. Recognize the existence of Netizens as part … Continue reading →

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Let there be the rule of law

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

It is unfortunate that persons like Justice Katju, Digvijay Singh, Jayaprada and others are speaking of some kind of pardon for Mr Sanjay Dutt, who is convicted by the Supreme Court of India to undergo imprisonment for possession of illegal … Continue reading →

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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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