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

Truecaller data base hacked

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Vijayashankar Na

It is reported that a hacking group from Syria has hacked the True caller data base and downloaded large chunk of data of mobile users. Users may take precautionary steps to presume that any sensitive information in their mobile phone … Continue reading →

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Technology used to strangle Bank Customers

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Vijayashankar Na

Reserve Bank of India is slowly losing focus on customer service aspects of Banking service. Acceding to a request from the Indian Bank’s association, RBI has imposed an ATM transaction limits of 3 withdrawals per month after which the customer … Continue reading →

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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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