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prominent journalist falls prey to a phishing email.

  as you might be aware that, the well-known journalist Nidhi Razdan who worked as Editor in NDTV for almost 21 years falls prey to phishing and resigned from her job to join Harvard University as an Associate. Professor, Department of Journalism which is not existing at-all. Asper her tweet, she said that in the month of June 2020 she got an email purported to have been sent by Harvard university offering her post of Associate Professor in Journalism and need to join in the month of June. After few days she was informed that due to the pandemic situation classes were postponed and classes will resume in the month of January 2021. meanwhile, she submitted her resignation to NDTV. It is pertinent to note that, she has participated in several debates in the NDTV on the capacity of Associate professor Harvard University. She said in her tweet that, she notices several anomalies and then contacted higher authorities of Harvard University and also shared the email correspondence she rec...

Is India ready to face cyber attacks?

As you remember 12 October 2020 power blacked in Mumbai for few hours. The government's cybersecurity agencies suspected that it could be a Cyberattack by state-sponsored cybercriminals. Now details came out that, it was caused by Chinese Hackers to sabotage the backbone of Indian Financial Capital. It has been detected that the malware “shadow pad” injected into the power grid network system and gained control thereby disrupted the power supply.  In Modern times the methodology of conventional war is changed. Instead of military attacks, the state-sponsored hackers targeting the basic infrastructure of the inimical countries causing irreparable damage. It has come to notice that, after the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian major general that took place on 3 January 2020 by the United States by drone strike at Baghdad International Airport, Iranian hacker targeted the American power grid and penetrated malware in the controlling system to gain access and attack. But it...