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

HIPAA-US$1.2 m damage for not sanitizing photocopier hard disk

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

A HITECH Act violation by a health plan in New York resulted in a potential data breach of 344,579 individuals has resulted in the HHS imposition of penalty of Rs $1,215,780 as a settlement. The breach occurred when the Plan … Continue reading →

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Indian Company causes HIPAA breach

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

An Indian contractor of a medical transcription company (M2ComSys) is said to have caused a breach of  PHI belonging to 32000 patients of US based Cogent healthcare leading to data breach notification by the US company. It is stated that … Continue reading →

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Cyber Crimes Increase all over India..except Karnataka

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

In a reply given in Loksabha, the MOS for Communications and IT Mr Milind Deora submitted that Cyber Crimes in India are on the increase. According to the minister, 16035 instances of attacks of various kinds were reported only on … Continue reading →

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ISI Penetrates BSNL?

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

This report in Mint suggests an intelligence report that ISI might have planted a trojan in the BSNL network to enable it spy on the database. It is interesting to note the social engineering methods used by ISI to get … Continue reading →

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Shobha De and Telengana

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

The tweet of Shobha De on Telengana has created a huge backlash in the form of protests from Shivsena. This has given raise to yet another debate on the influence of Cyber Space on physical society. The protests give a … Continue reading →

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IDRBT sets up Information Assurance Center

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

According to a report in Hindu-Business Line, the Governor of RBI inaugurated a Centre for Information Assurance and Management (CIAM) in association with the State University of New York at Buffalo. The CIAM is expected to  function as a “one-stop” resource … Continue reading →

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