Looking back in History..... Awards, Accomplishments, Rewards, etc. given to Neelabh Rai

Neelabh Rai aged 31 years completed his 38th Blood Donation during ABB's Camp at NTT Data-iLabs...This IT Professional...
Posted by Aarohi Blood Bank on Friday, 26 June 2015

साइबर लॉ के क्षेत्र में है करियर के साथ असीम संभावनायें

आज भारत में जिस तरह इंटरनेट का विस्तार हो रहा है, उसी तरह यहाँ साइबर लॉ की जरूरत भी महसूस की जाने लगी है। वास्तव में साइबर लॉ की जरूरत हर उस देश में महसूस की जा रही है जहाँ भी साइबर अपराध हो रहे हैं। ऐसे में ज्यादातर सभी विकासशील देशों जहाँ इंटरनेट अभी पूरी तरह से जड़ें जमा नहीं पाया है, वहाँ भी साइबर लॉ की जरुरत महसूस की जा रही है। साइबर अपराध को निपटाने और न्याय दिलाने के लिए इसके विशेषज्ञों की माँग लगातार बढ़ रही है। इसी जरुरत को ध्यान में रखते हुए साइबर लॉ से संबंधित पाठयक्रमों की शुरुआत अब ज्यादातर इंस्टीट्यूट में कर दी गई है। कहीं स्पेशलाइज्ड रूप में, तो कहीं एलएलबी के साथ इसकी पढ़ाई होती है।

Incident Response Case Study: Bitly Account Compromise

There is an important update from the Bitly Account Users from the Bitly Team. The Bitly Team is having some strong reasons to believe that Bitly account credentials may have been compromised; however, they have no indication at this time that the user's account has been accessed without permission.

Whenever a service provider is having some suspicion of account compromising incident, it is better to take precautions. In the same manner, to play safe in the cyberspace The Bitly Team had proactively disconnected any connections one might had done with Facebook and Twitter to publish the posts by using the URL Shortening Links using bit.ly or bitly.com . Once can safely reconnect these accounts in the next login.

If someone will login to their bitly account and if a user sees that their Facebook and Twitter accounts are still connected to their Bitly account, then this information is important for them:

EC Council official website hacked (http://www.eccouncil.org/)

The official website of International Council of E-Commerce Consultants, popularly known as EC-Council, is hacked. The hacker had inserted an image showing Edward Snowden's Passport and left following message on the www.ec-council.org website:

"
owned by certified unethical software security professional
-Eugene Belford
"

The name used by the hacker - Eugene Belford - is taken from the movie Hackers (1995) . The picture inserted is:

Cyber Security Roadmap / Strategy (draft version 1.0.0)

It's an attempt by Neelabh Rai to create a cyber security roadmap / strategy that can be implemented by any organization / country / corporate bodies. All its minute details are also in the development stage and will be hopefully completed at the earliest possible. The cyber security roadmap is created single-handedly by Neelabh Rai.

Since CYBER COPS India is a knowledge-sharing platform among the cyber security researchers, practitioners and experts hence, this very document is made available as a copyleft to all the esteemed readers and viewers.

Kindly have a look on this very document titled as "Cyber Security Roadmap / Strategy (draft version 1.0.0)" from here: 

[Series 01] Indian SCADA Systems - Current Status?

SCADA i.e., Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition is a real time industrial process control systems used to centrally monitor and control remote or local industrial equipment such as motors, valves, pumps, relays etc. SCADA is used to control:

• chemical plant processes,
• oil and gas pipelines,
• electrical generation and transmission equipment,
• manufacturing facilities,
• water purification and distribution infrastructures etc.

On 31 July, 2012 a news broke relating to the blackout in 20 states of India due to Northern Electricity Grid Failure which subsequently led to the failure of Eastern and North Eastern Electricity Grid Failure. 

Browser Forensic Tool (BFT) - A Benign Tool or Malign Tool??

Someone referred me to the UNREMOTE link where an interesting article was posted about a tool named as "Browser Forensic Tool (BFT)". The link is given below:

http://unremote.org/2012/02/09/bft-browser-forensic-tool/

About BFT:

According to the above given link, BFT is a software that will search in all kind of browser history (even archived) in few seconds. It will retrieve URLs and Title with chosen keywords of all matching search. One can use default example profiles or create a new one, with thematic search.

At first hand since never heard something like this, hence, it was obvious for me to take BFT for a test ride and to know whether it is worth using or not.

Additionally, the website BrotherSoft's Publisher also gives the following comment on BFT as:

You wan't to search very quickly in the History of all common browsers
even archived ones by keywords list (manageable) ?

This software is made for you, for companies, anti cyber criminal companies,
 for particular this software will simplify your life and save hours of manual researching. you can free download Browser Forensic Tool 1.0 now.

Reference: http://www.brothersoft.com/browser-forensic-tool-486857.html

Hence, I installed it in a Virtual Machine having an Operating System of Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Version with all the necessary Security Tools installed viz. Anti-Virus, Intrusion Detection System (IDS), Wireshark etc.