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

Mobile Crimes to be the focus in 2013

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Symantec has predicted that in 2013, Cyber Crimes in India is likely to grow in the Mobile segment. It is estimated that there are around 137 million Internet Users in India and nearly 70% of them use mobile to access … Continue reading →

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What Has Happenned to the Zone-H.org Case?

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Presently lot of discussions are happening in India on “Free Speech” and “Internet Censorship”. In this context I would like the community to be reminded of the case of Zone-H.org which was blocked in India following a defamation case filed … Continue reading →

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Banks are under Attack.. Beware

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Security specialists have put out a grave warning about a massive Cyber attack planned against 30 major US Banks. RSA recently announced that a gang of Criminals had developed a sophisticated Trojan under a project idenitified as “Project Blitzkreig” which … Continue reading →

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Virtual Key Board unsafe under IE

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Dec 13: A vulnerability in Internet Explorer is said to make it possible for a hacker to track the mouse cursor movements on the screen. This would make the “Virtual key board” system used by some Banks for password entry useless. … Continue reading →

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FIR Filed Against Airtel CMD

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Dec 12: Naavi has long been complaining that Airtel is practicing unethical practices for over charging its customers including placement of fraudulent transactions in the customer’s mobile and data usage accounts which amount to offences under ITA 2008. It is therefore … Continue reading →

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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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