November 2024

DailyPost 2988 GLOBAL RANSOMWARE MASTERMIND ARRESTED That ransomware is the nuclear war head of cyber crimes is to state the obvious. Ransomware gangs remain the reigning king of the organised cyber crime syndicates. Their attack sends a chill down the spine of any organisation or government department / agency. The way money is generated out […]

DailyPost 2987 CAN WE NOT SORT OUT THE MULE ACCOUNT MESS? Festering wounds is a part of our destiny but that could extend to business and technical solutions also is certainly not a natural corollary. Mule accounts seems to have fallen into this trap. Nicknamed as mule accounts, these accounts are used to siphon off

DailyPost 2986 REGULATORY PARALYSIS The general administration governance mechanism was running short of providing effective regulation, supervision and direction to a large number of specialised areas of our functioning, on which depended the growth engine of the nation. Few specialist regulators have always been there as a part of legal mandate like RBI but many

DailyPost 2985 SAMBHAL VIOLENCE (UP) – WIDER RAMIFICATIONS Though communal violence keeps flaring up in this country, its nature and causation has been changing quite drastically over the last four / decades. It starts from the Delhi riots of 1984 to Bhagalpur riots of 1989 to Gujarat riots of 2002, to the Sambhal violence only

DailyPost 2984 GOOGLE MAPS – PUBLIC PRIVATE COLLABORATION Google Maps transformed road navigation totally and globally is the reality. It has been maturing over the years, by way of the algorithm that runs and the quantum of data which is generated by users, ceaselessly day in and day out. It tries work on the intelligence

DailyPost 2983 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) MILESTONES PREDICTION AI started it journey way back in 1956 and through a number of AI winters and inflection points reached a point where it has become a continued inflection all the way. In recent times the journey can be defined by the milestones of Deep Blue, IBM Watson, DeepMind,

DailyPost 2982 LYING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY Every single milestone of technology in the last quarter of a century was a major leap from the earlier one. At times it was supposed to be the ultimate with not great tectonic change in sight. At other times we found it to be crazy, in bits and pieces beating

DailyPost 2981 DEMOCRACY @ RS 1500, RS 3000 ET AL Indian democracy has been taking twists and turns supposedly seamlessly since the time the constituent assembly adopted the ‘Blueprint’ of our democratic operations, called the Constitution, which came into effect on 26th of Jan 1950. How much of that blueprint has been into real operation

DailyPost 2980 POLITICAL CRIMINALITY What we hear and see in the all-pervasive cacophony in the public domain is defence of criminality is some form or the other, by the political class in their various avatars and democratic positioning. Criminality is represented in all pervasive levels of criminal activity; actual offences, offences which are committed gleefully

DailyPost 2979 BHARAT NCAP – HOW SAFE ARE OUR CARS? India is a land of talking and no issue is above and beyond it. From the recurring issues of glaring lack of road safety ecosystem to the existential battle in Manipur, it is nothing but table talk in a variety of formats to confuse or

DailyPost 2978 GOVERNANCE OF TECH – AN INVERTED PARADIGM! The legal regime and consequently governance have found deep roots in the democratic societies. Structured, crystal clear, process based, penal provisions / actions in place, no major gaps in areas /sectors / tasks governed and a general sense of uniformity in the governance system. It all