DailyPost 2764 RANSOMWARE GANG AKIRA – $42 MILLION TURNOVER Gone are the days of mafias, arms dealers, drug peddlers catching the imagination of the people and taking huge amounts of media space. The Cyber Age has transformed the crime scenario and current claimants to the coveted throne are a bunch of ransomware gangs, having the […]
DailyPost 2763 DEMOCRACY’s INVERTED PYRAMID – THE RULER & THE RULED Once you win any election at any level, you have arrived in life is the ultimate truism that defines the life of a political personality. The talk of public service is most abused topic in Indian democracy, and some taking it to selfless service
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DailyPost 2762 DEEPFAKE YAHOO BOYS -CRIMINAL AI HAS ARRIVED! While we are busy using ChatGPT to churn out what we have not been able to write, the bad actors are at their job to make the best out of Artificial Intelligence. The hacker and cyber scammers are way ahead in the field for even the
DailyPost 2761 DOXXING? As the world metamorphoses into a fully enabled tech world and the gap between the two worlds gets more and more morphed to one cyber-physical synthesized world, new ways of crimes, new crimes and social aberrations are bound to increase. Doxxing is one of those. What does it entail? In simple terms
DailyPost 2760 DAIXIN RANSOMWARE GANG As in the physical world, the cyber world also has gangs. It would be strange if the most popular cybercrime of the day did not have any gangs, i.e., ransomware. Hacking is the new normal has slowly become a truism to the extent that the organisation breached upon has a
DailyPost 2759 DNS AND CYBER THREATS The world of cyber threats literally provides a mirror image of the functioning of the cyber world, usage of tools, expertise and social engineering to create a breach for various motives and preferably get away with it. Uncovering threats and building capabilities to protect against these threats is what
DailyPost 2758 THE INDIAN ART OF GOVERNANCE Though missing to extremely conspicuous levels, yet it never felt nor talked about. Maybe we have been numbed to it and are forced to believe that there is no art or science of governance and anyone in the government, bureaucrat or politician, can deliver what he has been
DailyPost 2757 MANUFACTURED ELECTION AGENDAS Noam Chomsky long time back wrote a book on Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. Democracies have weird ways of handling themselves and more often than not, in hindsight, it does not turn out to be the right thing. Indian democracy has its own variant; of manufactured
DailyPost 2756 POLL MANIFESTO, WHAT IS? Why and what is a poll manifesto, the main stakeholders of Indian democracy will not be able to tell, the most important stakeholder the electorate the least. In the democratic – electoral – governance scenario of this country where does it fit in. Does it have any legal mandate,
DailyPost 2755 NEW PHISHING CAMPAIGN In the fast-moving world of cyber security, not only do we have platform criminality we also have campaigns, and phishing can be one favorite example. The current one pertains to a new phishing campaign targeting at oil and gas with evolved data stealing malware. Phishing is known malaise of the
DailyPost 2754 BANGALORE’S NEW AGE PARKING Bangalore traffic has been infamous from the potholed roads to traffic snarls at such an alarming regularity that it does make news. If you have to live in this city, you have to live with it. The new age traffic lights on the wings would in most likelihood make
