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Chinese Hardware - A Cyber Security Threat to India

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Chinese Hardware - A Cyber Security Threat to India I remember when I was a child and use to ask questions to self, if Japanese wants to revenge on USA then are they putting some kind of Trojan bombs activated remotely in various televisions, music systems, Water Heaters, emergency lights and cars they export heavily and cheaply to the USA. Japanese could in the long awaited need of revenge and what could worst then detonating multiple bombs in the television sets across American cities and causing panic with havoc without any atom bomb. These Chinese have resident revenge in their minds because of India being towering in the Asian region with IT revolution and largest English speaking population. Indians also always keep china scratching them wrongly by exhibiting His Holiness Dalai Lama. Now let’s look at how cyber security critical items are being used by Indian companies in the pretext of cost cutting and Chinese executives who serve majorly there state are fully aware...

Intermediary (ISP,Website Hosters,Facebook,Google,Banks,Stock Exchanges) Law in India

Who is an Intermediary in India ? Ans: As per Section 2(1)(w) of the IT Act, 2000 (Indian Cyber Law) "Intermediary" with respect to any particular electronic records, means any person who on behalf of another person receives , stores or transmits that record or provides any service with respect to that record and includes telecom service providers, network service providers, internet service providers, web hosting service providers, search engines, online payment sites, online-auction sites, online market places and cyber cafes; 1. All Banks ,Insurance & Finance companies 2. All Stock Exchanges(NSE,BSE,MCX etc) 3. All ISP's(BSNL,MTNL,SIFY,Tikona etc) 4. All Telecom Companies(Airtel, Vodafone, Aircel, Reliance etc) 5. All Auction Sites(ebay.in,Quickr,mybid.in,Auto auction sites etc) 6. All ecommerce sites(flipkart,myntra,jabong,amazon etc) 7. All Payment gateways 8. Search Engines  9. cyber cafe(Any place where public surfing on internet is allowed) 10...

Credit Cards to be More Secure Now But is your Personal Data Secure?

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After Shouting and advocating for Chip & Pin cards for more than two years in various National TV Channels and demonstrating loop holes and easy cloning process of currently employed Magnetic strip debit and credit cards, finally RBI has woken now and has asked banks to change the Cards technology to embed Chips & make entering of pin number compulsory by June 2013. One more thing i have advocating further that is sharing of client/customer data by bank to its subsidiaries or different legal entities like credit card division is blatant violation of Indian Cyber Law aka The IT Act,2000. Banks can be hammered with crores of rupees in damages and compensation for the very act. Every  Bank customer should know this that if bank has to share his data with other legal entity then Bank should take (written/email/electronic) permission.