November 2024

DailyPost 2977 IT FAILURE – FLIGHTS IN CHAOS! The July 2024 Microsoft Outage is still fresh and is a grim reminder as to how much our normal life can be thrown out of gear, courtesy what we in broad terms call IT failure. In the July incident a faulty software update from CrowdStrike impacted millions […]

DailyPost 2976 CYBER FRAUD CHALLENGE -’ ROOTED DEVICES’ If you still feel that cyber is not the main arena of crime and police moving aimlessly in the physical world can stem the rot, then we are the farthest from reality. Accepting that Cyber Police would be the main police in the days to come, would

DailyPost 2975 CRYPTO HACKERS JAILED When it comes to crypto currencies being laundered or used in crimes or for sale of drugs or hacking of crypto exchanges, the investigation throws up multifarious challenges; legal, tech, logistical and connected to geography, that an investigative success is like winning a war. Recently we heard of WazirX in

DailyPost 2974 CAN ROADS BE A GUARANTEE? We can expect anything out of our politicians, nothing is weird or absurd for them. To latch on to any successful project / action, ensuring them votes is the magic wand they are always looking for. They abused the usage of the concept of zero-tolerance to a level

DailyPost 2973 NATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSE ACT If you obstruct a public servant from performing his duty even if it is during a run of the mill protest, you are in for trouble. You land in a criminal offence and you have to keep battling it out for years. Governments have organisational strength and deep pockets

DailyPost 2972 THE CRYPTO HEIST The nature of this crypto heist might be comparable to the Bank of Bangladesh, Central Bank of Bangladesh way back in February 2016 and is still remembered in the history of cyber security globally. Crypto was supposed to be immutable but is now under fierce attack, with a few notable

DailyPost 2971 TUTORIAL JUDGEMENTS Discussing judgements more so by the influencers becomes an important task if you are out to judge the judges, whose main job is to judge everything that is brought to their legal purview.When the head of the judicial administration of our country passes on the baton, it becomes all the more

DailyPost 2970 ALPHAFOLD3 GOES OPEN SOURCE There were limits to the usage and the final utility of open source. At times it needed either customisation or support, which came with its own complications. Making open source work for you has its own tool kit. Leaving aside the intricacies of the open source world for the

DailyPost 2969 INDIA – IN DEFENCE It is very rare in the history of the country and that too a democratic one, where individuals and organisations, are in the continuous process – of being in defence. Country standing in defence of something worthwhile has been a regular feature, but that is not the case we

DailyPost 2968 CRUCIAL DEFENCE UNIT UNDER RANSOMWARE ATTACK We keep speculating about the state of cyber security in India given the fact that barely anything authenticated or validated comes out in the public domain either vetted by the government or the organisation(s) in question. There is still no legally mandated standardised breach reporting system in

DailyPost 2967 TOXIC CAPITAL – A TRIBUTE TO DEMOCRACY / GOVERNANCE That the air in the capital city in the country is so toxic, not being fit to allow normal health is a tribute to the nature of democracy which we practise and consequently the nature of governance that we have created. To say that