DailyPost 2129 KANGAROO COURTS A kangaroo court is supposedly a court held by a group of people, to try someone, without having the power to do that, especially without good evidence, as guilty of crime and misdemeanor. Basically, you sit in judgement and pronounce it, using some influence mechanism, which is under your control. It […]
DailyPost 2128 CO-LO SCAM; WHO TO TRUST? The co-location of brokers servers leading to undue advantage of microseconds, leading to trading profits of a windfall nature, by the National Stock Exchange, NSE, is the co-lo scam, as it popularly known today. Three ground rules, generally accepted by all of us, seems to be terribly broken;
DailyPost 2127 ENTRUST – HOW DO WE GET BACK DIGITAL TRUST? Hacking is the new normal, a phrase which has been oft repeated, but has not led to any commendable improvement, in the cyber security scenario of the world. Might be the victims or the users have been improving on this front, but the hackers
DailyPost 2126 A COUNTRY AT WAR! The is no enemy. There is no aggressor. And the country has not declared war on anyone. How many organizations, institutions, departments, police, investigative agencies, political parties etc are at peace with themselves and with those they interact with? To top it all, how many of them feel satisfied
DailyPost 2125 APPLICATION OF LAW If the same assembly line produces different types of motor vehicles, when it was created to produce only one type /design / model, it would certainly surprise each one of us. Application of law bears some analogy to it. It has to provide justice based on hard coded laws, process
DailyPost 2124 SOLARWINDS TACTICS IS BACK! SolarWinds hacks as it is known was detected in Dec 2020, was a supply chain attack on its Orion software. It is widely used in government and industry. As it came as a part of patch management / upgrade, so there was no way it could be suspected. Fire
DailyPost 2123 STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY ROAD The linear technology road has long been over. Technology is today a strategy with any number of disruptive technologies, there on offer. What provides your enterprise the business advantage, would have to be your call. The technology choices and the methodologies adopted for the purpose have meant windfall success or
DailyPost 2122 DIGITAL IMPOSTER! Ransomware has been keeping the security teams and the world on its toes. The security challenges of the ever-expanding galaxy of Internet of Things devices and of cloud computing have added extremely complex dimensions to the ever-fragile cyber security scenario. If this was not enough, we are already in the age
DailyPost 2121 UBER FILES Papers and files as per popular perception belong to the domain of governance. What sometimes tumble out in the public domain, generally put the world on flames; uproar over things unknown and at times unacceptable. Long many years back it has crossed the arena of governments and find private organizations being
DailyPost 2120 JOURNALISM OF COURAGE True journalism is journalism of courage and depth. The depth in journalism can be defined in a variety of ways. If perseverance and winding research is added to it, with a clear-cut goal of hard-core findings, irrefutable against all odds, only then it commands respect. While we lament journalism being
DailyPost 2119 LIVES ON RANSOM! Hostage and ransom have been known to the criminal world for ages. It is executed in a variety of ways, for different reasons and motives. Criminal gangs to terrorists all indulge in this act, mostly for ransom and at times for other reasons. This takes a quantum leap in the
