The recent news about the live streaming of the unnerving passengers by an Uber/Lyft driver in the St. Louis area coupled with the Fraudulent “Extra Service” claims by the Uber Drivers in Miami area have certainly raised a concern on the Privacy and the Credit Card Frauds. Both the cases have not raised much support …
It is interesting to note that the Government of India’s Department of Engineering and Information Technology has issued National Encryption Policy for public comment. And today the first addendum for the same has been issued for the people to refer to. However, when it comes to the overall policy, it has been left out pretty …
The days when we used to make payments with hard cash are long gone. With the advent of new age technology, Bank cards (Debit/Credit) and the Internet Banking, we all do go for convenience payment sitting in the comfort of our home and / or office. The payments made in this way are something that …
The recent developments that hackers are adopting to target the systems are pretty interesting. The Batchwiper as detected by the Iranian CERT and the Trojan as reported with evade technology are the two recent developments. The Batch Wiper though can be contained with certain precautionary measures, but the Trojan with evade technology would certainly be something that …
When we look around ourselves, we find that we are living in the ever evolving world of Gadgets or we can rather say that we are being enslaved by the Gadgets. So what is a Gadget? Let’s draw a caricature of Gadget with following definition – “A Gadget is a small device or appliance with …
Just what I had highlighted in the previous two posts about the Government intentions to get access to the Google mails along with the Blackberry and Skype. Interestingly the news is here – “Government wants to read your Gmail”. Well pretty Interesting huh!!! Just when we were worried about the Privacy of the previous cases, …
Just finished reading “Encrypted Phone Calls & Skype Security” by a fellow blogger and a technocrat Friend Mukesh Kesharwani. Indeed pretty interesting and well covered stuff no doubts and that is what we expect from Mukesh. However, when I look in from my Risk and Compliance Corner, the concern of using Skype in Corporate Network …
