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

Regulating the Ethical Hacking Training in India

Posted on May 26, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

The views expressed here and elsewhere on the need to regulate the “Ethical hacking Training” in India has evoked some responses which need to be debated. I will try to present some of these views and my perceptions about them. … Continue reading →

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Punjab National Bank Customers at Special Risk

Posted on May 25, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

A client of Punjab National Bank in Chennai has reported that the Bank has suspended sending of SMS alerts for Internet Banking transactions as is required under RBI guidelines. The reason is reported to be some malfunctioning of some software. … Continue reading →

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Positive use of Ethical Hacking Skills

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

While in the long run Naavi.org would like a proper regulatory regime to be set up for regulating Ethical Hacking trainings in India,  it is necessary for  Ethical Hackers who have already been trained to be guided properly to use … Continue reading →

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Regulating Ethical Hacking Training in India

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

The recent accusation that a prominent information  security training company in India was responsible for release of some malware in the wild and used for Cyber Espionage of Telenor and also for attacking Pakistani and Chinese web assets has raised … Continue reading →

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IPL betting

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

The entire country is crying hoarse about the havoc betting is playing on IPL. The power of money available through betting influences spot fixing and probably even match fixing. This is a logical development and there is no surprise here. … Continue reading →

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Indian Security Firm accused of being behind Corporate Espionage

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

The well known Delhi based security group “Appin” which conducts information security and  ethical hacking trainings is accused of being indulging in organized APTs (Advanced Persistent Attacks) and Corporate espionage. Initially it was reported that the group had been identified as … Continue reading →

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