Naavi
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IICA Qualified Independent Director
Book Cyber Crimes
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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Suspected Fraud-Make My Trip Credit Card offer
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
How the OTP system for Bank transactions is bypassed
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
PWC Survey on Security preparedness
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
Centralized IMEI data base to go on trial in a month
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
Cyber Fraud Survey in India by KPMG
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
“Photo Sync” from Facebook-A New Threat to Privacy
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