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

New Small Tech dominant Banks to be licensed

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Vijayashankar Na

RBI has issued a new set of guidelines for licensing small Payment Banks. The essence of the new rules is that it will open the doors for Telecom operators, Super Market Chains, and NBFCs to enter Banking in a limited … Continue reading →

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BPO employees arrested in Chennai for Bank fraud

Posted on July 13, 2014 by Vijayashankar Na

Two BPO employees accused of having swindled an UK Bank of £ 30000/- were arrested in Chennai after necessary investigations. D Ezhil Maran, 29, and S Ragava Giri, 28 worked as system engineers at Atos, a business process outsourcing (BPO) … Continue reading →

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How the lure of Samsung Galaxy at Rs 1.72 can land you in trouble

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Vijayashankar Na

It is known for some time that fraudsters use unrelated e-mails to drop trojans which may be used for phishing. Here is an example of an e-mail which says “..Own Samsung Galaxy for Rs 1.72..”   The link appears to … Continue reading →

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Bogus Digital Certificates of NIC detected

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Vijayashankar Na

It is reported that Google has detected several bogus SSL certificates issued by NIC and blocked them. Details According to the report the certificates have been later blocked by CCA also. It is surmised that hackers might have gained access … Continue reading →

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New Malicious Code for Android- Selfmite

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Vijayashankar Na

A new virus called Selfmite has been detected on the Android platform. This virus spreads itself by sending SMS to contacts in the infected phone with a link. The text message sent by Selfmite contains the contact’s name and reads: … Continue reading →

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RBI limits Customer’s Loss on Phishing

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Vijayashankar Na

In an excellent but long awaited move, RBI has directed Banks that the liability of customers on “Phishing” loss should be limited to Rs 10000/- See Report The new Banking Service code of ( Banking Codes and Standard Board of India … Continue reading →

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