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Clarification on National Encryption Policy.. Does not mean E Banking is exempted from security

After criticism that emanated over the week end on the draft National Encryption Policy that the Government released last week, Government has quickly made some clarifications. The original policy is available here We had provided our comments and suggestions on … Continue reading

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Evidence Act to be amended to facilitate Cyber Crime convictions?

It is reported that an expert committee on Cyber crimes has amongst other things recommended an amendment to Indian Evidence Act. Ostensibly the objective is to help law enforcement agencies to tackle new generation of cyber crimes particularly the mobile … Continue reading

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Case of Blind leading the Blind-Cyber Crime Statistics from NCRB

Yesterday, there were preliminary reports about the Cyber Crime statistics released by NCRB for 2014. This is a set of statistics gathered by collating the data from different state level police. Today some enthusiastic journalists have started writing their analytical … Continue reading

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Conviction of an Intermediary is possible even before the real cyber criminal is traced.

It had been reported earlier that a Cyber Cafe owner in Pune was imprisoned for 15 days and fined for Rs 10000/-  under Section 67(C) of Information Technology Act 2000 as amended in 2008 (ITA2000/8). We now have a copy of … Continue reading

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Reputation damage through Social Media..New Zealand passes new law

“Reputation Damage” is a concern of both Individuals or a Companies. The risk of “Reputation Damage” has increased with the growing influence of Internet and more particularly the social media such as Twitter and Facebook.  While the core objective of Twitter and … Continue reading

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If there is a “Glassdoor Attack” on my company, am I covered by Cyber Insurance?

Indian Companies are facing a new kind of reputation attack by  disgruntled employees posting defamatory messages through companies such as Glassdoor who have built a business model around monetizing the disgruntlement of employees.  The essence of this model is to … Continue reading

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