Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

The saga of India passing a new data protection law to replace ITA 2000/8 has still not reached the final chapter. There are completely contradictory statements coming from the Government and the Opposition. We are aware that the opposition political … Continue reading →