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

54 crypto currencies?

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

According to a recent report the number of Crypto currencies presently available is arond 54 and not 10 as was hitherto thought. Refer article Since the Bitcoin protocol is an open source protocol, it is possible for clones to be … Continue reading →

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Beware of virus riding on Bitcoin

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

With the exploding interest developing in India on the Bitcoin, the malware writers will be looking at every possibility of using the bitcoin craze to spread viruses and trojans. Already, spam mails appear to be in circulation trying to entice … Continue reading →

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China Loves it…Thailand hates it.. The Bitcoin saga continues

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

With the Bitcoin currency value touching US$1200  and dropping to $800 before settling at $1005 within three days, the Bitcoin has continued to capture the global attention of different kinds of people. Regulators in particular are getting nervous about how … Continue reading →

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Bitcoin miner bundled with other software

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

Malwarebytes has reported that in some of the softwares identified as Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP) they have identified the presence of a Bitcoin miner. The program was identified initially in a process identified as jh1d.exe and a variant jh1c.exe and … Continue reading →

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Indian Regulators worried about Money laundering use of Bitcoin

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

The Indian regulator appear to be concerned with the growing attention of Bitcoin. The increase in the exchange value of the currency to around US$ 1200 appear to be creating panic amongst the regulators without considering the real impact on … Continue reading →

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Bitcoin represents the third war between the digital society and the physical society

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

In order to increase the acceptability of Bitcoin for ecommerce purchases everywhere, a service has emerged where by an intermediary takes the responsibility of converting the buyer’s bitcoin payments to the legacy currency of the ecommerce site. Bitsumo  a company … Continue reading →

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