After a brief lull, the cyber crime branch has once again registered a substantial rise in the number of cases since the beginning of the year. The special unit registered over 45 cases while it has received about 279 complaints since January 1. The year 2015 was relatively calmer with 117 FIRs registered under the…
Despite having a national cybersecurity policy, risks to our critical infrastructure remain. The Aadhaar concerns are valid, but India needs both offensive cyber operations and strengthened cybersecurity to deal with new onslaughts. The debate in Parliament on the Aadhaar Bill, 2016, is quite revealing. Concerns expressed that the Bill contained certain provisions [Section 29(iv) and…
The screening of Anupam Kher’s next film in JNU on Friday turned into a debate on nationalism, frequently punctuated by slogans and counter-slogans. After claiming that JNU refused to screen his upcoming film Buddha In A Traffic Jam and accusing the university of “stifling freedom of speech and expression,” Anupam Kher finally did manage to…
New Delhi: Hours after his release from Tihar jail in a sedition case, JNU student Umar Khalid said he has no regrets of being jailed and was rather proud of being booked under the said charges. “We have no regrets of being jailed in this particular case. We are in fact proud of the fact…
History and hypocrisy are the helixed hobgoblins of democracy. The first one claims to be the motherboard that rewired the circuitry of a previous dark time by turning it to an enlightened one. The other excuses acts of aggrandisement and appeasement by bestowing a cheap certificate of faux freedom—of freedoms of civilised society, like freedom…
Asserting that the BJP Government has taken major strides towards the development of poor villagers and farmers with the Union Budget unleashing a slew of allocations for “gaon, garib aur kisan”, BJP president Amit Shah on Saturday said the Garibi Hatao movement is finally finding its feet under the Modi dispensation, which is taking “one…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has termed as baseless reports that the government was attempting to exempt vigilance inquiries against the Chief Ministers and other ministers from the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act. On the contrary, the government has taken steps to prevent harassment of the public for raising complaints against people…
The recent case of the email account of an e-commerce major’s CEO being hacked is not a stray one. Increasing cases of email spoofing targeting industries have the CID’s cyber crime department concerned. Over the past few months, 3-5 cases of money being lost to spoofers have come to light. While four were reported in…
The recent media revelations of the Pakistan Army snooping on Indian army personnel’s phones and computers, reportedly through a malware called SmeshApp, is the latest instance of the challenges faced by the Indian military in guarding sensitive and classified information such as the deployment and movement of troops and details of counter-terrorism operations like the…
With a political leader from Hyderabad insisting that the Constitution does not ask him to say ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ and therefore he could greet the nation in whatever words he likes and another in this tribe placing the greatest nationalist organisation of the country on par with the internationally condemned ISIS as well as…