IT Act 2000 – Penalties, Offences With Case Studies
Objectives of IT legislation in India The Government of India enacted its Information Technology Act 2000 with the objectives stating […]
Category: Compliance, Regulations & Governance
Shellshock Exploitation: Using BeEF Framework
In a previous article, we have described the Shellshock vulnerability and in this article we show how to exploit this […]
India’s National Cyber Security Policy – Implications for the Private Sector
On the 2nd of July 2013, the Indian Government formally approved and published the National Cyber Security Policy (NCSP). The policy […]
RBI Gopalakrishna Committee Report on IT
The RBI constituted the Working Group on Information Security, Electronic Banking, Technology Risk Management and Cyber Frauds, which produced its […]
PCI DSS for Penetration Testing
Understanding PCI DSS and PA DSS is crucial to the role of a penetration tester. Quoting the relevant PCI-DSS or […]
Indian IT Act 2000 – An Insight
from NII Consulting The IT Act 2000 is a large repository of fine print fraught with judicial jargon and varying […]
SQL Injection in Stored Procedure & Preventing from the same
Following is the small example of creating a stored procedure. ==================================================================== CREATE PROC sp_login (@loginid nvarchar(25),@password nvarchar(25)) AS DECLARE @SQLString […]
HIPAA Compliance – Introduction & Pointers
Introduction Protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of patient information by healthcare organizations became a legal requirement via the Health […]
Reasons for Failure of Business Continuity Plans
I was recently attending a conference on Business Continuity Management, and happened to attend an enlightening talk given by Mr. […]
First conviction under IT Act
Finally, we have our first conviction under the IT Act 2000 in India. After more than a 100 cases being […]