Can everybody be duped by cyber crooks? Going by the past one or two years, we are forced to believe so. After the Jamtara cyber crooks scammed the country like an epidemic, with a small pause, a sinister and more effective wave of cyber crimes have hit the nation. The cyber scam spree does not […]
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It’s like an affliction, even if the person has it, most of the time he would like to believe that he is not afflicted. Wishing it away does not sort out matters, it confounds and then it becomes a curse. Nothing then can bring you back to the old healthy condition. In the case of
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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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The Prime Minister flagged digital arrest scams in his Man Ki Baat radio address in its 115th episode on October 27, 2024 and laid down with clarity what the ground conditions were; the reality, the legality and the prevention. Digital Arrest thus came under intense focus and one believed that something transformative was about to
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
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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
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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
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THE RANSOMWARE! Ransom and kidnapping has been a part of conventional crime for times immemorial. It was being done in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes, but the variant it created in the digital age, to start with, defied all wisdom. Instead of a human being or group of them, what was
The way AI is transforming our lives and world is not hidden to anybody, and possibly it can’t, given the tectonic changes it is making day in and day out. The launch of ChatGPT on 30th of Nov. 2022 has been a watershed moment in the history of this technology and of the world. What
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Cyber security breaches, attacks, incidents etc just don’t don’t happen out of the blue. There are issues both known that are brushed under the carpet. The unknown which are quite a few these days, the less said the better. It is not so easy to be abreast with the latest in the field anyway. Laxity,
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DailyPost 3056 GMAIL – HACKS OF A DIFFERENT KIND We all have been hearing of digital arrests and despite lots of efforts it has not been yielding the right results. Despite the PM talking about it and also clarifying that digital arrest is a legal myth and that the government’s investigative agencies don’t work in
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