Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na
Indian Company causes HIPAA breach
An Indian contractor of a medical transcription company (M2ComSys) is said to have caused a breach of PHI belonging to 32000 patients of US based Cogent healthcare leading to data breach notification by the US company. It is stated that … Continue reading
Cyber Crimes Increase all over India..except Karnataka
In a reply given in Loksabha, the MOS for Communications and IT Mr Milind Deora submitted that Cyber Crimes in India are on the increase. According to the minister, 16035 instances of attacks of various kinds were reported only on … Continue reading
ISI Penetrates BSNL?
This report in Mint suggests an intelligence report that ISI might have planted a trojan in the BSNL network to enable it spy on the database. It is interesting to note the social engineering methods used by ISI to get … Continue reading
Shobha De and Telengana
The tweet of Shobha De on Telengana has created a huge backlash in the form of protests from Shivsena. This has given raise to yet another debate on the influence of Cyber Space on physical society. The protests give a … Continue reading
IDRBT sets up Information Assurance Center
According to a report in Hindu-Business Line, the Governor of RBI inaugurated a Centre for Information Assurance and Management (CIAM) in association with the State University of New York at Buffalo. The CIAM is expected to function as a “one-stop” resource … Continue reading
What ITA 2008 lacks
I draw attention to today’s article in Hindu highlighting the plight of two Air India employees who have been charged under Section 66A and 67 following a complaint motivated by union rivalry. It is stated that the Police in this case … Continue reading