Phishing sounds similar to fishing. Fishes are to the volume of internet users today much like fishermen are to phishers. Zillions of fishes falling prey the nets is nothing less compared to internet users being phished through their own in boxes and messengers. Phishers tend to have some personal favorites – personal information, credit cards […]
Some days back I was greeted by a Google Safe browsing warning when I tried visiting a ‘known’ site. As I was sure it was supposed to be clean and harmless site, I thought it would be good to dig further into this problem. The trail led to interesting amounts of codes, concepts and techniques. […]
Finally, we have our first conviction under the IT Act 2000 in India. After more than a 100 cases being lodged, and about half of them actually reaching the courts, we have our first conviction of an orthopaedic surgeon in Chennai being convicted of recording and uploading pornographic images. He and his brother in the […]
from NII Consulting The IT Act 2000 is a large repository of fine print fraught with judicial jargon and varying legal implications. To quote from the preamble of the Act, “An Act to provide legal recognition for the transactions carried our by means of electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication, commonly referred […]
by Chetan Gupta, NII Consulting Well, last week was abuzz with activity when we had to recover data from a corrupt Linux hard disk. Thought it would be pretty easy but as soon as I loaded the hard disk, I knew something was amiss.
by K. K. Mookhey, NII Consulting e4 It’s late at night, and the phone rings. This had better be a world-changing revolution. But it’s something weirder. A client in East Asia informs us that his systems are behaving most abnormally. Before one can gather one’s senses, the information begins to flow: “The primary trading systems, […]
