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

Suspected Fraud-Make My Trip Credit Card offer

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Dec 8: Today I received a telephone call from 040-40502373 in the name of Make My Trip with an offer for a special HSBC Platinum credit card with two free air tickets. The offer was too good to be rejected. However … Continue reading →

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How the OTP system for Bank transactions is bypassed

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Dec 7: The commercial banks in India have banked heavily on the two factor system where the OTP sent through a mobile is used to authenticate the password based access. Some Banks like SBI and ICICI Bank even tried to convince … Continue reading →

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PWC Survey on Security preparedness

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Dec7: PWC has released the findings of its “The State of Information Security survey-2013” indicating that there is an increasing interest and budget allocations for Information security in the Indian companies. Report

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Centralized IMEI data base to go on trial in a month

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Dec 5: In a measure that could put a break on Mobile thefts, Government of India has approved a trial running of a centralized IMEI data base in India. This would enable tracking of stolen mobiles and make it difficult … Continue reading →

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Cyber Fraud Survey in India by KPMG

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Dec 5: KPMG has released a Cyber Fraud survey amongst business units which is a useful document of record. Called the Fraud Survey 2012, it identified Cyber crime, IP fraud, Identity theft as frauds of the future and concluded that “Indian … Continue reading →

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“Photo Sync” from Facebook-A New Threat to Privacy

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Dec 4: Facebook has introduced a new feature called “Photo Sync” for mobile users which is likely to be a new threat to privacy to casual users. If enabled, the feature will automatically upload the photographs from the mobile to Face … Continue reading →