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November 9, 2009

Empanelment with CERT-In and with Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA)

Qadit Systems and Solution(Qadit) has been empanelled with CERT-In as a qualified IT Security Auditing organisation upto April 30, 2012. We have also been empanelled by the Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA) as an auditor under the Information Technology Act, 2000 for conducting the technical and physical infrastructure audits of the Certifying Authorities. This empanelment is valid upto September 23, 2011.

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October 30, 2009

No Work No pay? Time to change the rules

In what is nearly comical for the type and nature of incident, telecom giant Avaya paid salary to an employee who never worked. Investigations reveal that it was a simple case of not deleting the name from payroll file. Continue reading “No Work No pay? Time to change the rules”

October 30, 2009October 30, 2009

Tech Terminology Demystified – HTTP

We are all very familiar with the term HTTP. We use it every day to access websites. HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.

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October 30, 2009

The Internet is 40

October 29, 1969. This is the day the Internet said it’s first word:’Lo’ as in ‘Lo and behold here comes the Internet’!! And then it crashed.

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October 28, 2009November 4, 2009

Information Technology Act 2000 now with sharper teeth !!

The Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008 has come into force from October 27, 2009. So what are the key changes that have happened?

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October 20, 2009

Clustering vs. Mirroring vs. Log shipping vs. Data Replication

In this article let us analyse the various technologies that ensure high data availability and redundancy. The following table makes a comparative analysis of clustering, mirroring, log shipping & data replication. Continue reading “Clustering vs. Mirroring vs. Log shipping vs. Data Replication”

September 30, 2009September 30, 2009

Economic Value of a threat

Is it sufficient to just benchmarks threats based on CVSS ratings or do we need to do something more to actually understand the threat better Continue reading “Economic Value of a threat”

September 30, 2009September 30, 2009

Results of Internet Security Survey

The IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force® research and development team has recently issued a white paper on Internet Security threats. Some of the key findings are Continue reading “Results of Internet Security Survey”

September 30, 2009

What is a Cold Boot Attack?

In cryptography, a cold boot attack (or to a lesser extent, a platform reset attack) is a type of side channel attack in which an attacker with physical access to a computer is able to retrieve encryption keys from a running operating system after using a cold reboot to restart the machine from a completely “off” state. The attack relies on the data retention property of DRAM and SRAM to retrieve memory contents which remain readable in the seconds to minutes after power has been removed.

September 30, 2009

How to protect yourself from Credit Card Fraud?

Credit card fraud is on the rise, and it is time to have a look at tips on how end users can protect themselves from Credit Card fraud.

Here is a compilation of some tips on how to protect yourself from credit card fraud:

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