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

Mann Ki Baat- Let’s us defeat the Ransomware by choking its life line called Bitcoin

This is an open letter to our honourable Prime Minister Mr Narendra Damodar Das Modi, our honourable Finance Minister, Mr Arun Jaitely, our honourable Minister for IT, Mr Ravishankar Prasad, our honourable Minister of Home Mr Rajnath Singh and also … Continue reading

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Bitcoin Vs Counter Cyber Financial Terrorism… Which side will the NDA Government take?

Bitcoin supporters are now in a PR thrust mode trying to lobby with the Media and bring influence on the Modi Government for a favourable dispensation including some kind of recognition for Bitcoin. According to this story “India is preparing Bitcoin … Continue reading

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Beware of the Flipkart Big Sale Phishing

[P.S:. I thank Mr Niket Popat, a security professional from Gujarat for bringing this potential scam to my notice.] Some time back, we had brought to the notice of the public through our article: “Jio upgrade Phishing..Jio and Hyderabad Police … Continue reading

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Zomato Data Breach.. What Next?

Zomato a leading Mobile App owner and a restaurant guide has suffered a major security breach in which 17 million data sets of customers including the name, email address and hashed password is reported to have been lost. Read Article … Continue reading

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One more reason why we should impose a global ban on Bitcoins

I argued yesterday that it is time to place a global ban on Bitcoins . The reasons were clear. We need to disarm the Cyber Financial Terrorists like those who were behind the WannaCry ransomware and could also be planning for … Continue reading

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Naavi’s Advisory for Common People on WannaCry

Wanna Cry has not only affected companies, but also individuals who donot actually are target audience for payment of extortion money. Hence this advisory for such people. Leaving all the technical discussions to the experts, I would like to provide … Continue reading

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