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

Cyber Policing Initiatives in Kerala

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

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

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

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

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

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

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

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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PIL on Non Appointment of CAT Chairman

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

A Writ Petition (WP37477/2012) filed in Karnataka High Court regarding the non appointment of a Chair person for Cyber Appellate Tribunal will be coming up for hearing today. During the past several hearings, the Government advocate has been requesting time … Continue reading →

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Security Breach reported at Naavi.org Server end

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

It has been reported that due to a security breach at the server end, three unauthorized URLs had been hosted under the domain of naavi.org for some time during the last week. The URLs hosted/intended to host malicious codes. There … Continue reading →

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