Category Archives: Cyber Law

Punjab National Bank Customers at Special Risk

A client of Punjab National Bank in Chennai has reported that the Bank has suspended sending of SMS alerts for Internet Banking transactions as is required under RBI guidelines. The reason is reported to be some malfunctioning of some software. … Continue reading

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Positive use of Ethical Hacking Skills

While in the long run Naavi.org would like a proper regulatory regime to be set up for regulating Ethical Hacking trainings in India,  it is necessary for  Ethical Hackers who have already been trained to be guided properly to use … Continue reading

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Regulating Ethical Hacking Training in India

The recent accusation that a prominent information  security training company in India was responsible for release of some malware in the wild and used for Cyber Espionage of Telenor and also for attacking Pakistani and Chinese web assets has raised … Continue reading

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IPL betting

The entire country is crying hoarse about the havoc betting is playing on IPL. The power of money available through betting influences spot fixing and probably even match fixing. This is a logical development and there is no surprise here. … Continue reading

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ICICI Employee Arrested for 32 lakhs fraud

An ex employee of ICICI Bank has reportedly been arrested for duping one of the Canadian Customer, by name Pierre Courtat to the extent of Rs 32 lakhs. The customer held about 61451 Canadian dollars in an account which was … Continue reading

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Bank alone should be liable on RTGS and Phishing Frauds

I refer to an article in Business Standard today titled “Cyber frauds: Experts blame banks; banks find faults with clients”. One of the views expressed by a Banker is quoted as follows: “Earlier when internet banking was started, we thought … Continue reading

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