Nirmal Singh 3C Company

There was a botnet campaign going on twitter to which the micro-blogging site was alerted by a digital security company. The campaign was built around online sex and more than 90,000 accounts were heavily involved in the campaign.  The campaign, ‘SIREN’, was brought to light by a digital security company known as ZeroFOX – the firm specializes in detecting social media threats.  ‘ This botnet campaign can be easily termed as one of the largest and the most malicious campaigns ever recorded on any given social networking website. And it is good that SIREN got detected before things went haywire.’ - Nirmal Singh 3C Company ZeroFOX was keeping tabs on SIREN for a couple of months through its computer vision and its highly advanced language processing algorithm. More than 8,500,000 tweets were recorded from over 90,000 twitter accounts with suggestive display pictures of women promising online sex. The issue has been going on for a while on twitter due to whi...

There was another major breach, and this time it was Indian telecom giant Reliance Jio that was at the wrong end of that breach. Personal data, information, mobile phone numbers, and e-mail addresses were compromised of over 100 million Jio customers. This news made it more pressing for the government and the concerned authorities to bring in more robust and structured laws for data protection and encryption. The spokesperson of JIO has denied any such breach and said that the information of the users and customers is safe. Names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers appeared on a website called Magicapk - the website was later taken down.  ‘The website had data and personal information of millions of Jio users. They were authentic or unauthentic, that is not the issue here. The issue is to address the problem of these regular data breaches that have been taking place in the country. We must have stern laws regarding encryption and data protection.’ - Nirmal Si...

Internet has taken over the world, made everything an eye can see digitized. Internet usage is not limited to just computers or browsers – mobile apps and even televisions use Internet. Anything that is connected with an Internet connection is bound to collect data. This data, in most cases, is your personal information – the forms you fill online, your browser history, things you buy, your browsing pattern, even the photos that are stored on clouds. This can’t be safe, can it? It isn’t. At least not until you encrypt this data. For those who don’t know, encryption is a simple [read: complicated] process in which the collected information and data is transformed into a secret code and is unreadable to everyone who isn’t authorized to decrypt it. ‘ This is a serious issue, our information is not safe and pressing steps should be taken to minimize the cyber security breaches that have been taking place in the country.’ - Nirmal Singh 3C Company The data is collected on...