DailyPost 1855 SEXTORTION It’s not as recent and not as bizarre a mode of crime as it seems to be at the first instance. It has been a part of the criminal’s toolkit for quite some time. Might be because of this, we have camera shutters in the latest laptops. In Feb 2010, Anthony Stanci […]
DailyPost 1853 NATIONAL CCTV LABORATORY How much have CCTVs changed our lives, it would be very difficult to decide? How much computer vision makes a difference to our lives? What is the mammoth difference between what CCTVs could do a decade back and what it does today? From immigration to fire to accidents to crime detection
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DailyPost 1849 GLOBAL WAR ON RANSOMWARE! Will the global war on ransomware ever happen? The lip service to cyber security has brought us to this pass, and when the dark clouds are visible all across the horizon, we are into the ostrich mode, hiding our head in the sand. While the bad omen was made visible
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DailyPost 1848 GOOGLE REPORT – RANSOMWARE – INDIA 6th In our day-to-day discussion, ransomware is not a topic in this country, it is dubbed as an alien phenomenon, to the extent that figures are also not readily available. Since the WannaCry days, we remain in the state of denial. During WannaCry India was the third most
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DailyPost 1798 DRONES – PRECISION, DATA & PREDICTABILTY The liberal drone rules / regime, the vision of Global Drone Hub 2030 and the Digital Sky Platform facilitating the transformation to happen, is the magic sauce laid out for the country. It has the potential. Can we realize it? If yes, in which manner. The role
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DailyPost 1783 WHAT IS PEGASUS? Beyond the cacophony and another wash out Parliament session, what is Pegasus actually outside its physical avatar that we are talking about. We talk of it as a tool that relays your data from the phone it has infected to its masters in a nutshell. It can be sold only
DailyPost 1782 RANSOMWARE FAMILIES You would have heard of royal families, dynasties, political and business families of the day, but you would have never heard of ransomware families. Presuming that ransomware has made a name for itself as the front runner malware of Cyber Crime, it needs no further introduction. As Pegasus decides the fate
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DailyPost 1761 INTERCEPTION, LEGAL INTERCEPTION, HACKING AND CONTROL OF LIFE! Interception has been part of statecraft and also the underbelly of state actors across the globe. The gap between interception and legal interception has always been thin. The revelations of Edward Snowden are a gory reminder of what all can happen under precincts of the
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DailyPost 1758 PEGASUS – RIDING DIGITAL TIGERS Pegasus is just indicative of the world we live in, where all controls are moving out of the known legal hands to the technologist and the digital world in some form or other. The capability to impact our lives is phenomenal with we knowing nothing of the nitty
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DailyPost 1744 KASEYA RANSOMWARE – IT’S A WAR! Lets ransomware not be treated as a Cyber crime in every case. The context decides what it is actually meant for. The response of the state even if unstated makes it crystal clear, depending on how the state views a ransomware attack or a series of it or
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DailyPost 1739 TOWARDS TARGETED RANSOMWARE In the age of COVID-19, mutants are the order of the day, each successive one more potent than the earlier one. Ransomware is like the current pandemic, it gives a feeling of being both distant and not dangerous, when in the midst of it you understand what it really is.
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