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

RSA.COM remains silent

In continuation of the report of the incident of illegal blocking of Naavi.org on 17th January 2021, I would like to inform the readers of Naav.org that Union Bank of India has expressed regrets for the incident. A senior executive … Continue reading

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Union Bank and RSA Fiasco

Today, I woke up in the morning to see the following email from my hosting service provider The Email suggested that a Phishing Script has been hosted at www.naavi.org in its article on Union bank published on January 14, 2021 … Continue reading

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Journalist Nidhi Razdan duped

In a classic web based fraud, NDTV journalist Ms Nidhi Razdan appears to have fallen prey to an Internet scam according to which she was offered a position of “Associate Professor of Journalism” which prompted her to resign her job … Continue reading

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Union Bank of India should learn to protect its Digital Assets

[In continuation of the previous Article] Naavi has been advocating that Digital Assets need to be accounted for in the balance sheets of its owners. Today it is only under the Personal Data Protection Standard of India or PDPSI that a … Continue reading

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Union Bank of India will be facilitating Phishing by Ignorance and Negligence

Union Bank of India is considered one of the better managed banks in India and RBI recently merged Corporation Bank and Andhra Bank with Union Bank. Both the merged Banks had decades of history and brand name amongst its customers.  … Continue reading

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Using publicly available data under GDPR

Many organizations involved in market research often collect data from publicly available sources such as Google Searches, Social media postings etc. This information is processed and some useful market information is gathered. This may also be commercially traded as market … Continue reading

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