Security Di Maa Di Hot & breaking events as I think over the past week! ISRO launched 20 satellites at one go! <clap clap> Pre-monsoon showers cooled the country. In the face of such joy – one Mr Yadav has heated up the wires and brought our national “ban” genes out in the warzone again….
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What the Government does… secure messaging
Good to know that someone in government has come to a point where they are looking at the insecurity of using WhatsApp messaging platform in professional life, The convenience of WhatsApp beats any logical decision to stay away, and the same can be said about all social media apps. Seeing the announcement for the development…
They ran, we shot… and u better believe us!
The Rape On November 27, 2019, In Hyderabad, 4 guys committed a horrendous gang rape, and the victim was a young lady doctor. When her return home was delayed, the worried family went to the police station to lodge a compliant and the cops say that possibly their daughter has eloped. Then they started discussing…
National Cyber Security Policy 2020 .. in anticipation
According to reports a new National Cyber Security Policy (NCSP ) is presently under development by the National Cyber Security Coordinator (NCSC) and may be released in early 2020. This is good news because the earlier NCSP was released in 2013, by the then Planning Commission, and I have always wondered what the hell did…
Influencermite – the information influencing termites
Influencers exist in various form since time immemorial communicating with the masses (or governments), overtly or covertly, to build, destroy, change or mould minds. They have been known by many names – lobbyists, spin doctors, propagandists, PR professionals, spokespersons etc., and not to forget the terrorist recruiter or the religious bigots. Every influencer has one…
Skeletons in my banks and national system
Billions of rupees / Thousands of crores have been swindled by these rich rats who have run away to foreign lands living life on the spoils of their crime. Maybe some day these rats will be hauled back and I shall like to be the first to throw shit at their face. Then of course there are many others who are still in India and have gamed the system – the law seems to be catching up with them. This is a list I keep putting together.
DSCI Airtel re-define conflict of interest
When you err you need guts to own up to your mistakes. However, we in India have our own interpretation of professionalism, nationalism, patriotism and all the “isms” and we excel at cloaking our errors.
SANS Insults India, then tries to gift favors
At a conference in New Delhi, SANS put up a stand with a backdrop showing a truncated map of the country. This is a crime and an insult to the nation…. and they persisted to keep it in place despite being asked by me to remove the offensive and insulting poster. Not done – JAI HIND. If you cannot respect my country just F*** OFF !
CERT(A)IN expectations from CERT-IN: “Certifications” (2)
Sometime back we did a quick survey asking infosec people about their expectations from CERT-In and we got a number of inputs. This is being shared here and this is the second in the series, covering Certifications. The follow up blogs will address issues like audit, responsibility, guidance, empanelment etc – keep watching!
Chai pe Charcha – Mumbai 27 Aug 2017
The CpCC topic for the day was : “Privacy from national, personal and business perspective; and fallout”