DailyPost 2892 THE FLAILING JAIL ADMINISTRATION In the last few years, not jailbreaks, but comforts in the jails have been catching attention and rightly. Does that speak of the flailing jail administration in the last decade or so or it has been all along but has come out in the open only now. Might be […]
DailyPost 2891 TAXED TO SUFFER! Is ‘taxed to suffer’ the true antithesis of a welfare state. A welfare state in its purest form takes care of at least the basic necessities of every citizen in the country. The first principle of public finance taught to every single new entrant to the civil service is to
DailyPost 2890 HAS DOCTORS STRIKE / CAUSE REACHED A DEAD END? Have we reached the post-governance age of Indian democracy? In this age the fruits of political / bureaucratic or any power emanating out of official position is to be exploited to the hilt, for personal gains. It is in continuation of election manifestos having
DailyPost 2889 US OILFIELD FIRM HACKED Critical infrastructure remains a sweet spot for the hackers, more so of the ransomware genre for the impact it makes & and money it generates. Energy remains the top concern for all nations and a spoke in its production, distribution and availability as a mass scale has the possibility
DailyPost 2888 IS IT THE END OF THE ROAD FOR THE EXECUTIVE… Is executive an enterprise to provide day to day utilities, small and big, to provide necessary approvals / licenses, to make the polices as mandated by the legislature, run welfare schemes, execute beneficiary cash transfers and run administrative machinery at scale? This is
DailyPost 2887 IT’S RAINING HACKS – NOW MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY Hacks have become so common that it does not get a mention in the mainstream media. It is your baby and hence you are supposed to manage it. Rest is between your customers and your regulators. There are a variety of ways by which a hack
DailyPost 2886 ENT SURGEON DUPED OF 9 CRORES Is the increase in cyber crime / scam directly proportional to gullibility of the victims, in a way general masses? Is lack of knowledge and processes going against them? Or is it super greed in quite a few cases? It can be any one of these or
DailyPost 2885 THE HAMILTON STORY – WHAT A HACK COSTS TO THE VICTIM Just show the prospect of a project to an IT company and then see the pace with which they get in commercial rigmarole of effort and time, the level of expert resources to be deployed, timelines and finally the costing. The costing
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DailyPost 2884 CHANGE HEALTHCARE THOROUGHLY HACKED! The more we change the less we do. Nothing much has changed. This is precisely the case in cyber security, even in an age where truism is ‘Getting hacked is the new normal’. Simultaneously, the battle for reclaiming personally identifiable data, PII, is raging. There are quite a few
DailyPost 2883 WHERE ARE OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES? When have you last met your elected representative? If you ever have. When has he visited you last? Or visited your area or your professional group or addressed any issue of the community? The simple question is, have you been impacted in any way by your elected representatives?
DailyPost 2882 POLITICAL POLICING The recent rape and murder of the a Kolkata medico has again thrown the spotlight on the nature of policing and governance happening in most parts of the country. A step further, what do you make out of the nature of investigation done in this case, till the time it was
