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

Bank Executive in Credit Card fraud

In a credit card cloning fraud in Hyderabad, an employee of HSBC call center has been arrested on charges of credit card cloning. The executive reportedly bought credit card data from a Nigerian and also used skimmers to collect more … Continue reading

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Safe E Banking- Some initiatives that calls for attention

Naavi has been following the developments in the Indian Banking scenario for the last 4 decades and has closely been associated with the industry as an employee of the Banking industry as well as a consultant and critique. In the … Continue reading

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Cyber Policing Initiatives in Kerala

Kerala Police have initiated a unique step to strengthen the Cyber Crime mitigation effortsby involving select members of public as “Honorary Police Officers”. It may be recalled here that in Chennai, a senior Police officer by name Mr Prateep Phillip … Continue reading

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IT Security Summit 2013 held at Pune

The College of Agricultural Banking, Pune, a premier training institute for Bankers in India an arm of the Reserve Bank of India conducted a two day workshop on IT Security. Attended by over 40 CISOs of different Banks, the two … Continue reading

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Cyber Appellate Tribunal Chairman-Status

Ever since the earlier Chairperson of Cyber Appellate Tribunal (CAT), Justice Mr Rajesh Tandon approached super annuation in June 2011, Naavi has been requesting for quick appointment of a new Chairperson in replacement of Mr Tandon or continue Mr Tandon … Continue reading

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Android Mobile Virus for Phishing found in South Korea

A Phishing malware operating int he Android mobile platform has been detected in South Korea. McAfee Mobile Security detects this threat as Android/FakeBankDropper.A and Android/FakeBank.A and alerts mobile users if it is present This new trojan targets, South-Korean bank users with a  fake message … Continue reading

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