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

Government is on a holiday

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi who was enjoying a holiday in US while the city was burning has now come back to India. Many hope that there will be some accountability for what happens in Delhi now. People have criticized … Continue reading →

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Stealing Credit Card information from POS

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Stealing of Credit card information when used on the Internet is a known vulnerability. It had also been observed that certain criminals had bought credit card information by bribing the employees of merchant establishments or by stealing the POS swiping … Continue reading →

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Vulnerabilities in human space

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

According to NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), a “Vulnerability” in Risk Analysis context is defined as a”flaw or weakness in system security procedures, design,implementation, or internal controls that could be exercised (accidentally triggered or intentionally exploited) and result … Continue reading →

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Starting an Information Assurance Program

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Information Assurance (IA) is a management initiative to ensure Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Authentication and Non Repudiation of information in an organization. Taking the practical difficulties involved in achieving a satisfactory level of IA, Naavi has suggested a “Total Information Assurance”(TIA) … Continue reading →

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Beware of Bogus LinkedIn invitations

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Invitations from unknown persons in LinkedIn or Face Book or other sites are considered potential risks since accepting such invitations could lead to downloading of dangerous viruses. Even if the invitations appear to come from friends it is unreliable since … Continue reading →

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Facebook to introduce “Paid Message Delivery”

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Facebook has started an test for delivering messages to Facebook users from people other than public against payment of money. Refer here I see an advantage in the service to deliver legal notices to the Facebook users who might have … Continue reading →

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