The alarming pace at which we keep getting the news of ransomware attacks gives a feeling that it has already gone out of control. Though there are guidelines to the enterprises the legal mandate with regards the breach communication to the regulatory agency, there is no mandate as to what they are legally bound to […]
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From CPU-level ransomware to SAP Netweaver attacks are the nature of ransomware attacks that are completely changing the rules of the game and the rules of engagement too. No one where we are heading to. What is SAP NetWeaver? It is a technology platform which includes a variety of components and tools that support application
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Life is crazier than the best of the crime thrillers and at times can send chill down the spine of the best in trade criminals. As we move from physical to cyber crimes, anybody who even knows a bit about the earth shattering ransomware attacks and its gangs, would have certainly heard about the LockBit
Getting hacked is the new normal is a truism which is getting more and more accepted as the time passes and breaches keep happening at an alarming regularity. The cyber security stance remains the same but for lip service to start with or the best a very minimal security, which the concerned vendor would decide.
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There is news of cyber crimes, and mostly from the organised cyber crime mould so to say, appearing with alarming regularity in the media. All indications show this might not even be the tip of the iceberg. Police for times immemorial have worked on Modus Operandi classification of the criminals and lots of characteristics attached
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It is so surprising that the frequency with which cyber scams are coming to the fore, with the same surreptitious tech infra and modus operandi and yet it is not treated as a cyber crime emergency, then we are forced to take it as our misfortune. Either the powers that be are ignorant, or indifferent,
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With all the media glare on the digital arrests and consequent efforts by the government and others, one is forced to think that it was more of a psychological issue rather than anything else. The lack of understanding of the system of people who have it, directly or indirectly, makes it all the more intriguing.
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There are time limits in many countries with regards to informing about cyber breach by an entity. More often than it is flouted if the enterprise can get away with it. In cases where the hack finds its way into the public domain and likelihood of a huge regulatory damage, some face saving acceptance is
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In today’s fast moving world of cyber insecurity you would barely find people who are completely unaware of cyber crimes. Phishing as a mode of executing cyber crime has been accepted as the most generic and has continued to remain successful for a long period of time. There are different versions which have now come
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Criminal case investigation and trial works as per strictly laid out law, procedure and evaluation of evidence. It means that each stakeholder of the criminal justice system works in an objective, independent, empirical manner with the highest level of competence and expertise towards the final delivery of justice and achieve it. Anybody outside this system
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In the unanimous judgement of the Supreme Court in the Puttaswamy case in 2017, right to privacy was declared a fundamental right. Going through the meandering preparation, creation of bill, joint parliamentary committee scrutiny etc the legal statute came into being in 2023 titled the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023. The agony has still
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