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 […]
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
Daily Post 3004 CLEO DATA THEFT ATTACKS? Same as getting hacked is the new normal, a ransomware gang taking responsibility for a ransomware attack has nearly become normal. They are convinced that the long arm of the law will not reach them and if it does in most exceptional circumstances, they will find ways and
Daily Post 3002 HAS DIGITAL POLICING ARRIVED? DIGITAL ARRESTS UNABATED! There has been a paradigm shift in the way we lived even five years back, leave aside anytime earlier. How much of our life; professional and personal, has remained as it was in the beginning of 2020, just before the onset of Covid. Can anyone
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Daily Post 3001 DIGITAL ARREST DATA – KARNATAKA ON TOP Digital arrest has been on the centre stage for quite some time now. For all the cacophony it generates in a variety of mediums in the public domain, its surge remains unabated. While governments spend hundreds and thousands of crores for making known what they
Daily Post 2995 ONE CYBER SCAM WITH 5000 MULE INDIAN BANK ACCOUNTS In the world of hacks, breaches, and cyber fraud, with every big case, the feeling is that it cannot get bigger. But lo and behold in a very short time, the preceding case starts looking puny. Think of a case of where more
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DailyPost 2988 GLOBAL RANSOMWARE MASTERMIND ARRESTED That ransomware is the nuclear war head of cyber crimes is to state the obvious. Ransomware gangs remain the reigning king of the organised cyber crime syndicates. Their attack sends a chill down the spine of any organisation or government department / agency. The way money is generated out
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 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 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
