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Taming the Cyber Insurance Dog… Key lies with IRDA

“Cyber Insurance-a dog that can bite you and itself” says my friend  Mr Dinesh Bareja (Information Security Expert) in an interesting article. Mr Dinesh has well brought out the risk of an insurance company being sued by its client when there … Continue reading

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Will PSD2 have an impact in India?

Recently, in the WhatsApp circles, there was news about RBI cautioning the public with “Multi Bank Balance Enquiry Apps”. This was actually an advisory issued earlier on 11th April 2015, in which RBI stated as follows. “It has come to the … Continue reading

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Software Application is not a mere piece of coding…There is business behind it

My article on the Bank of Maharashtra(BOM)  UPI fraud where in I had expressed an opinion that NPCI and RBI also have  some responsibility elicited some off the record remarks  from NPCI and one of the senior technical members of … Continue reading

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Fighting susceptibility for “Cyber Hypnotism” with Ulysses Contracts

The recent Cyber fraud in Mumbai where an elderly (72 year old)  woman was duped to the extent of Rs 42 lakhs in a Nigerian Scam (Refer here) open up a discussion on how it that  seemingly intelligent people fall … Continue reading

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One more Phishing now in the name of BSNLEXPRESS

Just as I was completing my writing on the jioupgrade fraud, I received another whatsapp message with a link that looks like bsnlexpress.com. This is another phishing attempt as the link is not bsnlexpress.com. It is bsniexpress.com. We had seen … Continue reading

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Jioupgrade Phishing..Jio and Hyderabad Police should act

Phishers and Scammers look out for every opportunity to fool gullible people by sending out messages which appear to come from some well known companies or entities. The objective of such hoax messages may be a) Just spam for fun … Continue reading

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