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

CyAT is dead. Let’s create a Cyber Disputes Mediation Center

The Cyber Appellate Tribunal (CyAT) which was envisaged under ITA 2000/8 as the national appeal authority over all the adjudication offices is finally confined to history. Despite being in existence from 2000 upto 2017, the CyAT could not come to … Continue reading

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Process of Cyber Appellate Tribunal merger with TDSAT complete

With the presidential assent given to the Finance Bill 2017, the amendments to some other Acts including the “Merger of Cyber Appellate Tribunal with TDSAT” is deemed to have been enacted. Now it is necessary for the Government to pass … Continue reading

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MBA interviewee arrested for sending fake emails.. Now it poses a challenge to the CCA

The Special Task force of the UP Police has arrested one Mr Ram Prakash Singh who had sent fake e-mails to all the aspirants of a job who had to attend an interview stating that the interview had been postponed … Continue reading

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One more Phishing now in the name of BSNLEXPRESS

Just as I was completing my writing on the jioupgrade fraud, I received another whatsapp message with a link that looks like bsnlexpress.com. This is another phishing attempt as the link is not bsnlexpress.com. It is bsniexpress.com. We had seen … Continue reading

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Jioupgrade Phishing..Jio and Hyderabad Police should act

Phishers and Scammers look out for every opportunity to fool gullible people by sending out messages which appear to come from some well known companies or entities. The objective of such hoax messages may be a) Just spam for fun … Continue reading

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The Cultural difference between Cyber Appellate tribunal and TDSAT that needs to be addressed

CyAT was established to settle the appeal regarding civil disputes between an IT User and any person who might have caused a wrongful loss to him which is adjudicated by an adjudicator or the CCA. Essentially the disputes involved a … Continue reading

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