Advocate (Dr.) Prashant Mali's Blog

If a employer gets his employees or ex employees bank statement without his knowledge it amounts to DATA THEFT . This cannot be produced even in a Court of Law This is a landmark judgement(order) delivered by Maharashtra Adjudicator in Our clients favour this will prevent misuse of an individual’s bank  statement in India. The judgement has ruled that this amounts to Data Theft of Sensitive Personal Information under Section 43(b) Read with Section 66 of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000(INDIA). I had represented and argued this matter for my client Amit Patwardhan-CEO of Heko Chains in India (a German Company) Case Details :Amit Patwardhan Vs Rud Indiia & Vipin Rao - 1 of 2013 Case Details :Amit Patwardhan Vs Rud Indiia & Vipin Rao - 1 of 2013 Case Details :Amit Patwardhan Vs Rud Indiia & Vipin Rao - 1 of 2013 This judgement could be downloaded at following link of Maharashtra Government Website - DIT http://it.maharashtra.gov.in/SITE/Upload/ACT/Ami tPatwardh...

Warning of A NEW VIRUS  A new virus or variant has been found to be "spreading fast" in the Indian cyberspace which cleverly steals bank account details and passwords of the user once it is clicked.It is the new and suspected variant of malware family called 'Win32/Ramnit'. Ramnit worm spreads by infecting or modifying files existing on target systems such as (EXE, dll or html) and creating a new section so as to modify the entry point to that section. This virus, "steals credentials like file transfer protocol passwords, bank account logins, infects removable media, changes browser settings and downloads and executes arbitrary files".The virus is so potent, that it has ability to hide itself from anti-virus solutions and acquires various aliases to attack a genuine system or Internet-based connection which works to play emails and other user services. The virus is such lethal in its operations that it "infects the removable media by copying itself t...