DailyPost 2965 CACTUS TO CLOP TO HELLCAT Very rarely a topic can be so intriguing. It would really take an effort to unravel it, but certainly very doable given the quantum of information available on the public domain, more so related to IT / cyber security. Without making it a riddle, the simple answer is […]
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DailyPost 2958 LAZARUS EXPLOITS GOOGLE CHROME VULNERABILITY To call Lazarus the al-Qaeda of cyber security would be an apt for the manner in which they have shook the hacking world. It is believed to be a prop of the North Korean government to proactively carry on its agenda of cyber crime / hacking as a
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DailyPost 2955 DIGITAL ARREST – CAN WE STEM THE DIGITAL ROT Taking the name of a government agency surreptitiously and making some ill-gotten money or playing the government middlemen and disappearing is quite a known form of crime. The coming of the digital age ushered in a new set of crimes generically called cyber crime.
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DailyPost 2951 CICADA3301 RANSOMWARE If you go by the research being conducted in the field of ransomware, it would certainly be amongst one of top areas of computer science, albeit it used on the wrong side of the law. If you take it as development to successful production and upgrade, that too with crazy timelines,
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DailyPost 2937 AIR-GAPPED SYSTEMS BREACHED While we keep getting news of breaches / hacks every now and then, from small to big to critical and massive, air gapped systems breach certainly are way above ordinary. It can have repercussions which can be far reaching, way beyond commercial or reputational damage. Air gapped systems is a
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DailyPost 2936 DIGITAL ARRESTS – ‘THE ADVISORY RESPONSE’ Take a hypothetical crime scenario of gunpoint robberies happening all across the country, with the same modus operandi, similar gangs, and being publicised as well. In which manner the police and government would have reacted? Did it not call for immediate and effective action? Take the next
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DailyPost 2935 OPERATION CRONOS Ransomware is the biggest curse of the cyber world today and it impacts the real world in many ways you would have ever imagined. From finance to espionage to critical infrastructure to intellectual capital to business secrets, it can impact any enterprise in a debilitating manner. Data in all its manifestations
DailyPost 2934 US TELECOM FIRMS INFILTRATED The hacking of telecom firms is not going to end anytime soon. What they have on offer for the hackers is well known by now, it being a critical tech infra. Newer methods and exploits are coming out in the open. As the US telecommunications industry forms the backbone
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DailyPost 2931 DIGITAL LAME DUCKS – SEEMS EVERYONE CAN BE DUPED The FedEx, Customs, CBI, Mumbai Police CBI and Courtroom role play, digital arrest and ransom scam has already broken the glass ceiling of cyber-crimes many times over. The nature of victims and that too consistently leaves us in total bewilderment and also a feeling
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DailyPost 2930 THE GULLIBLE & THE IGNORANT – CEO DIGITALLY DUPED The FedEx, customs, CBI, police and of late courts has been a digital duping exercise which has been scalping good booty for quite some. Fortunately, it has been reported in the media quite extensively on a regular basis. This was happening on account of
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DailyPost 2926 CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION – THE IT / SOCIAL MEDIA SPOKE! Are IT companies in general and social media companies are a spoke in the wheel for criminal investigations globally? The heat of these companies is more felt outside of the US with regards to criminal investigation non-cooperation, as they cannot play around much there,
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