.. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has set up a new subsidiary for IT and Cybersecurity The following is quoted from the official information release: “Reserve Bank of India (RBI), a statutory organization established under the RBI Act, 1934 is in the process of setting up of an Information Technology (IT) Subsidiary to take care…
In a historic move that attracted comparatively little media and national attention due to the prevailing election fever; the PM Mr Narendrabhai Modi took a bold political decision to create Tri – Services Commands. A long pending move caught in inter services haggling and lack of national leadership. History will record that in this sorry…
Two Nigerian nationals are arrested in Goa in a breakthrough by the Goa Police busting an Online Love and Gift Scam. A number of similar cases have been reported from other parts of the country too, however, the scamster is yet to be arrested. The Nigerian Scam has evolved over the years and I remember…
The article below published in The Guardian, the British newspaper that published the Snowden Revelations is a classic example of missing the wood for the trees. Global Surveillance indeed has privacy and human right angles to it
While there were all signs of a potential riot with thousands of people congregating in Panchkula, the administration and Police did nothing to preempt the situation – this is a shame! Now, as we write this blog, 30 ppl are dead and hundreds are injured!
Sniper Rifles from Bengaluru ! A division of Stumpp Schuele & Somappa Springs (SSS Springs) SSS Defence (in partnership with CBC Brazil) develops and supplies a portfolio of land systems and products for defense, homeland security and commercial applications. Their major focus areas include: -Future infantry small arms & light weapons -Small & Medium caliber…
Pic courtesy : http://direitodiario.com.br In my endeavours to make the cyber security boffins of this nation aware of the dangers of the present ICT policy being a farce from a national security viewpoint, the one thing that has got many ‘cyber security experts’ to open their eyes was when I used to tell them…
Domain Name Registrar’s Bankruptcy Threatens 70,000 Domain Name Owners A new threat explodes in the digital India scenario, and it is not information warfare, or election influencing or cyber attacks from our “friendly neighbors”, but a sort of nuclear fallout. The liquidation of domain registrar Messrs net4 may result in the non availability of thousands…
By Dr Rakesh Goyal 31 December 2016 My paper “How Much of Black Money is Held in Cash?” published in Moneylife on 28 December 2016 (http://www.moneylife.in/article/how-much-of-black-money-is-held-in-cash/49303.html) has been a good learning experience for me. It attracted many comments from many learned members/subscribers, in Moneylife webpage and by direct emails to me. I tried to respond…
By Dr Rakesh Goyal A perpetual student of cyber security since 1991, he is a PhD in Cyber Security, Gold Medalist Engineer, Gold Medalist PGDM from IIMB. he is MD of Sysman Computers Pvt Ltd, Mumbai, one of the 23 IT Security Audit organizations empaneled with CERT-In Min of IT, GoI to audit cyber security…
