Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

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 →

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 →

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 →

One of the Counter terrorism strategies is to choke a terrorist organization of the money supply. This holds good not only for terrorists in Kashmir or elsewhere and to the Naxalites, but also to organized cyber criminals. If we look … Continue reading →

The WannaCry ransomware seems to have targetted the health sector more, probably for the reason that most of the systems used in the industry were using unpatched or old windows systems and also their employees were not as well informed … Continue reading →

Today, the 15th May 2017, Indian corporates, including Banks will be switching on their computers with a prayer in their lips hoping that they would not see the dreaded “Your files are encrypted” screen. It is still not clear what … Continue reading →