Major Cyber Breaches – Sanjay Sahay

IS POLITICAL SLUGFEST THE DESTINY OF HIGH PROFILE CRIMINAL CASES?

March 12, 2025 / CYBER CRIME, Cyber Security, Major Cyber Breaches, News / Sanjay Sahay

Criminal case investigation and trial works as per strictly laid out law, procedure and evaluation of evidence. It means that each stakeholder of the criminal justice system works in an objective, independent, empirical manner with the highest level of competence and expertise towards the final delivery of justice and achieve it. Anybody outside this system […]

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CRITICAL INFRA CYBER ATTACK REPORTING MANDATED

March 11, 2025 / CYBER CRIME, Cyber Security, Major Cyber Breaches, News / Sanjay Sahay

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

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LAZARUS EXPLOITS GOOGLE CHROME VULNERABILITY

October 31, 2024 / CYBER CRIME, Major Cyber Breaches / Sanjay Sahay

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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AIR-GAPPED SYSTEMS BREACHED

October 10, 2024 / CYBER CRIME, Major Cyber Breaches / Sanjay Sahay

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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COLUMBUS DATA BREACH

September 21, 2024 / Crime, CYBER CRIME, Major Cyber Breaches / Sanjay Sahay

DailyPost 2918 COLUMBUS DATA BREACH The data breaches at the local self governments in the US does not evince interest and publicity as it deserves in public interest. Maybe as it happens so frequently that it has become a normal affair, notwithstanding the debilitating impact on the public services. The loss of personal data too

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US OILFIELD FIRM HACKED

August 23, 2024 / CYBER CRIME, Cyber Security, Major Cyber Breaches, News, RANSOMWARE, Scam / Sanjay Sahay

DailyPost 2889 US OILFIELD FIRM HACKED Critical infrastructure remains a sweet spot for the hackers, more so of the ransomware genre for the impact it makes & and money it generates. Energy remains the top concern for all nations and a spoke in its production, distribution and availability as a mass scale has the possibility

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ENT SURGEON DUPED OF 9 CRORES

August 20, 2024 / CYBER CRIME, Cyber Security, Major Cyber Breaches, Scam / Sanjay Sahay

DailyPost 2886 ENT SURGEON DUPED OF 9 CRORES Is the increase in cyber crime / scam directly proportional to gullibility of the victims, in a way general masses? Is lack of knowledge and processes going against them? Or is it super greed in quite a few cases? It can be any one of these or

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CHANGE HEALTHCARE THOROUGHLY HACKED!

August 18, 2024 / CYBER CRIME, Major Cyber Breaches, RANSOMWARE, Scam / Sanjay Sahay

DailyPost 2884 CHANGE HEALTHCARE THOROUGHLY HACKED! The more we change the less we do. Nothing much has changed. This is precisely the case in cyber security, even in an age where truism is ‘Getting hacked is the new normal’. Simultaneously, the battle for reclaiming personally identifiable data, PII, is raging. There are quite a few

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EUROPEAN SPACECRAFT HACKED!

May 23, 2023 / Crime, Major Cyber Breaches / Sanjay Sahay

DailyPost 2431 EUROPEAN SPACECRAFT HACKED! Have you heard of aircraft getting hacked or have a cyber-attack? While you make efforts to delve deep into this interesting topic, I will take you to an arena, you would not have ventured to think of. Cyber attacks on spacecrafts. Cyber space is the fourth frontier of war. A

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IS YOUR BUSINESS DATA ON THE DARKNET?

September 9, 2022 / CYBER CRIME, Industrial, Major Cyber Breaches / Sanjay Sahay

DailyPost 2175 IS YOUR BUSINESS DATA ON THE DARKNET? We have been talking about ransomware in its multifarious dimensions. Lots have been written about ransomware as a service – a field of super specialisation. The TOR the old favourite or Ahmia; the search engine for hidden services have been the talk of the town. On

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DATA-WIPING ATTACKS

January 21, 2022 / Cyber Security, Major Cyber Breaches, Technology / Sanjay Sahay

DailyPost 1944 DATA-WIPING ATTACKS There is no moment when Cyber Security will not surprise you. The nature of attacks also has connections with the older versions and the digital modus operandi practices of the recent past. The main objective is to keep the world on its toes and that is where their success lies. Surprise is

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