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 […]
The investment scams don’t seem to be ebbing, the muted efforts of powers that be does not seem to be making any great dent in the digital ecosystem of apps based scams and digital arrests. The backend funneling of money also remains the same. There are lots which have to be done at the generic
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In the age of porous cyber security, the unbelievable can also happen. How many times have you checked a new storage device and found something awry? More often than not the answer will be in capital No. Storage is produced and delivered afresh with no one ever handling the devices. This myth seems to have
Cyber crimes, cyber security breaches and cyber fraud have become all pervasive, beyond the understanding of the investigators and the regulators. It has become a free for all, but we are not ready to accept it. We still falsely believe that everything is as it was in yesteryears and nothing is gone amiss. Whereas precisely
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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The companies who don’t move even an inch till the time they have not extracted every single piece of data that they think worthwhile, behave diametrically opposite, if it comes to their own wheeling dealing. A hack is a hack, and it is legally so. It cannot be made an inhouse affair, which is the
In any case of a hack, there is always a disagreement of the nature and quantum of the data lost and based on it the logical conclusion is drawn that the customer or critical systems are not impacted and they have done what it takes for full remediation. Some press releases or at best in
Do you have faith in the systems you run? The faith is twofold; one is the capability to run it efficiently and second is, if you land on the wrong side of it, will it give you a fair deal? I think it is an abysmal failure on both counts. While most of our systems
Ramping up human and technical resources is an ongoing exercise in our battle against cyber crimes. Recently, Karnataka appointed 16 cyber technicians, the details of the capabilities are not known in the public domain. Will they be able to match the harsh ground level requirements being dictated by the international cyber criminals? Or will we
In the cyber insecure world in which we live, getting hacked is the new normal. The question is not if, it is when? The fixed numbers of modus operandi which the police used to boast upon to prove their competence, is thrown to the winds in the age of cyber crimes. Unfortunately, nearly every crime
