Monthly Archives: November 2016
Chroma Key Morphing alleged in Hillary Clinton Video..A lesson for Cyber Forensic Specialists
Some time back, there was a lot of discussion in India about a video in JNU in which allegations that anti India slogans were raised. There were two versions of the video one in which there were clear indications that … Continue reading
Mirai Botnet brings down Liberia’s Internet.. What do we learn?
The DDOS attack on the Internet service provider Dyn which suffered a massive DDOS attack on October 21 with 1.2 Terra Bytes of data directed from about 145000 CCTV/DVR instruments working as a botnet shook up US internet and brought … Continue reading
RBI should do a security audit of Corporation Bank new IT system
It has been pointed out in these columns that after the recent changes made in the account numbering system in Corporation Bank there have been many customer service issues. One issue that was pointed out was that though the account … Continue reading
Online Registration System for Indian Hospitals.. No Privacy Policy?
As a part of the Digital India program, the Government of India is encouraging hospitals in India to make use of the “Online Registration System (ORS) framework to link various hospitals across the country for providing some services such as … Continue reading
Cyber Security Issues dominate US Election
Cyber Issues have never dominated an election process as much as it now has the US Presidential elections of 2016. Whether Trump will win or Hillary will prevail depend on how the Cyber activities in US have affected the electoral … Continue reading
Automation in Healthcare Requires Manual Override for security
Two incidents reported yesterday in two different hospitals highlight the risk in automation of health care processes and the criticality of information security. In one of the incidents, a virus left three hospitals in disarray and cancellation of all routine … Continue reading