an unplugged watch on the goings on in India in the cyber domain – comprising our comments, views and thoughts for the country.
Last week someone opened the submarine and the Indian Scorpene “asur” zoomed out of the hatch starting The (usual) Great Indian Circus with the Government, Navy, DCNS and French government playing intelligent or ignorant roles depending on the time of the day. This play will continue, ad infinitum, and I try shall update it from…
Today morning I woke up to news that about 22,400 pages with details of the Scorpene submarine have been leaked through The Australian newspaper. These submarines are to secure the defense capabilities of the country and here their complete details are out in the public domain. What a sad day for the country when our…
As we step into our 70th year, we have great hopes of growing better and bigger in managing national cyber security. The government has announced a number of initiatives like Digital India, Startup India etc – each initiative is designed to add to the efforts of the thousands of InfoSec professionals across the country. With…
Over the past few years, the Information Security (IS) scene in the country increasingly sees young guys and girls actively participating and attending the many big and small conferences (or Con as the community would like to call them) across the country. For most youngsters IS begins as a hobby or passion and once bitten by the hacking…
First – A Little Walk Down History Lane I started an Internet based gift delivery service in 1994/95 and ran it until about 2000 (Pacific Gift Service) it was making a profit from day one because e-commerce, GMV, and the unicorn business had not yet been invented. I had great ideas much before any of…
Is this a story of vengeance – All the circumstances point to the suspicion that the Central Board for Film Certification (CBFC) has taken revenge by (apparently) leaking the ‘Censor Print’ of the Hindi movie “Udta Punjab” (IMDB). The CBFC says no but I don’t think even a two year old will believe their…
.. 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…
Pic courtesy : http://www.praxmatrix.com Air gap as a panacea for all cyber security threats is enough; is what our national security boffins who deal with critical networks believe or have as believe. Why they cling to this notion when all evidences point to that concept being outdated and an increasing body of evidence showing that there are…
