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

There is no Right to Fake News

The Government of India has now come out with a new version of the InformationTechnology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 which was first notified on 25th February 2021. On 28th October 2022, there was an amendment … Continue reading

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Gaming Intermediaries..Final Guidelines released

The Intermediary Guidelines covering the Gaming Intermediaries which had been released for public comments has now been notified. This will be an amendment to the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media EThics Code of 25th February 2021. Copy of the guidelines … Continue reading

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News Coverage on News18-Kannada on 2nd April 2023

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The Great Data Robbery… Why it is a national security issue?

This is a continuation of the previous article “The Great Data Robbery in India…64 crore data sets…weaponized for the next election…” We have seen many data breaches from Hospitals. Banks, Payment Gateways etc. Most of these are targeted at financial … Continue reading

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The Great Data Robbery in India..64 crore data sets..weaponized for the next election..

Following was a press note issued by Cyberbad police on a recent data theft investigation which is considered the largest data theft in the world. Copy of the Press note We shall discuss this in greater details in the follow … Continue reading

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The New Criminal on the Internet: Tox Service

Since 1971 when the first concept of a “Malware” surfaced we have been fighting the menace of Virus, Trojan, worm etc which are all “Malicious” programs that automatically spread into the user’s computer. The initial purpose of the viruses was … Continue reading

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