Daily Post 2867 RANSOMWARE’S LATEST CATCH – INDIAN RURAL BANKS If you ever thought Ransomware was a fanciful crime impacting the western world; big business and its governments, you are in for shock. It has reached the Indian cooperative and the regional rural banks. The financial transactions in parts of the Indian countryside have come […]

DailyPost 2866 PRIVACY- DIGITAL GOVERNANCE FOR CITIZENS CAN WAIT… Privacy is at the core of digital governance and the quality of digital life and well being the citizens can enjoy. In India it is lip service, when you are through with everything other governance tasks, privacy would remain waiting for you to be officially revisited.

DailyPost 2865 WAZIRX’s ‘SOCIALISE’ SECURITY BREACH STRATEGY As is often repeated “Getting hacked is the new normal,” ways and means have to be found to mitigate it. While the cyber security measures need to be improved upon on a consistent basis, there is no compensatory mechanism for a hack, mostly its data and real value

DailyPost 2864 A CONSPIRACY MOST FOUL? The recent new criminal laws could have taken care of this need, where conspiracy is being played in full public view day in and day out by variety of government agencies, consultants, third party auditors in tandem with the vested interests; the beneficiaries of it, businesses, individual anybody, middlemen

DailyPost 2863 THE REGULATORS COLLAPSE – IS IT NOT CRIMINAL? The two horrific incidents in Bangalore and Delhi; the murder of a young working woman in a PG accommodation in Bangalore and the basement tragedy in an IAS coaching centre in Delhi, leading to the death of three civil service aspirants, rips apart the hollow

DailyPost 2862 BSNL – MASSIVE DATA BREACH Telcos are turning out to be the new cyber battleground, for the nature of likely access the hacked data can provide. Globally, the telecommunications companies are on the radars of hackers, their databases in need of heightened cyber security. How they go about it is another story. Are

DailyPost 2861 THE TRAGEDY OF DEMOCRATIC NUMBERS! Is democracy all about numbers or that is what is brought down to. Do numbers change the quality of democracy? All that has gone historically in the making of the functional democratic nations states; what we are today, cannot be both indoctrinated and delivered only by numbers. Numbers

DailyPost 2860 ENTER THE THIRD PARTY WAY Newer ways of inflicting maximum damage and monetising it exponentially is what the hackers aim at. As per the CrowdStrike Threat Landscape Report 2024 third party relationship exploitation is making waves in the hacking industry for the results it delivers and will continue to be on top of

DailyPost 2859 GENERATIVE AI AND THE THREAT LANDSCAPE Cloud and generative AI are changing the cyber threat landscape, whereas the latter is doing it in a much more comprehensive manner. The various dimensions of it still remain, but whatever impact it has made so far, gives us a feeling that there are lots to come

DailyPost 2858 CYBER THREAT LANDSCAPE The health of our digital systems today is directly proportional to our health in every human field. In the fast changing cyber world, to have the threat landscape change at a dynamic level is most expected. Given this ever moving goalpost, first it needs to be discovered. Until and unless

DailyPost 2857 NEET 2024 – IRREGULARITIES? While the battle rages is the Supreme Court on the ReNEET issue, which has gotten more and more complex by the day, and the fate of lakhs of students hangs on a thin balance of legal acumen and data analytics. How convincing a narrative is created by either of