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

95% of mobile users are under threat of Stagefright

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Vijayashankar Na

In a grim reminder of mobile technology risks when more and more e-banking and e-commerce activities are moving onto the app platform, the “Stagefright” vulnerability is expected to expose all Android users including Lollipop 5.1.1 to risk of being hacked. … Continue reading →

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Section 66A(modified) to come back ?

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Vijayashankar Na

According to this report in Deccan Herald the MCIT  has constituted a panel under the chairmanship of Mr T K Vishwanathan to rework on Section 66A which was struck down by Supreme Court in what is popularly referred to as the … Continue reading →

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Does Your Vehicle Insurance also provide you Cyber Insurance?

Posted on July 26, 2015 by Vijayashankar Na

Cyber Security specialists have recently demonstrated how a commercially sold car can be effectively taken control of by a remote “Hacker” leading to disastrous consequences. This article in Washington Post graphically sketches how a hacker can cut off the engine or … Continue reading →

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Why We cannot spare 20 minutes for a cause?

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Vijayashankar Na

P.S: This is a reproduction of what I posted today at Linkedin. Cyber Crimes is accepted as a big concern for all of us. When there is a phishing attack that wipes out the bank account of a victim or … Continue reading →

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Hanover Survey on Cyber Insurance

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Vijayashankar Na

In November 2014, on online research was conducted by Hanover Research to understand the market for Cyber Insurance. (A Copy of the published Report is available here). The survey is supposed to have gathered information from 271 respondents, most of … Continue reading →

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The Zero-Day Market.. Some insights

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Vijayashankar Na

Zero-Day vulnerabilities are a category of software flaws that are exploited by cyber criminals before the software developer comes to know of it and fixes it through a bug fixing patch or upgradation. Since such vulnerabilities are not known to … Continue reading →

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