VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Ratan Tata buys stake in media company - Pritish Nandy Communications:  The Chairperson of Tata Trusts, Ratan Tata   has bought a stake in   Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC)   in his personal capacity. However, PNC did not disclose the amount of stake acquired by Ratan Tata.   The media company, PNC in an exchange filing said, "Mr Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons and Chairman of Tata Trusts, has, in his personal capacity, acquired a stake in Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd through market purchases last week."   The company also said, "The filming of the popular series, declared last year as Amazon's most watched show out of India, got postponed because of restrictions induced by the pandemic and will now start under strict security protocols.... Read More

FIRE SALE IS A CYBER SECURITY PANDEMIC; UNSEEN, ALL PERVASIVE AND FATAL:  Fire Sale is an all-out cyberwarfare attack   that performs a three-stage systematic attack on a nation's computer infrastructure. Just because something has never happened does not mean that it would never happen. Commercial aircrafts being used as missiles hitting Twin Towers in a suicide attack is as weird as it can get. This was nearly twenty years back. The manner the digital technology has paced up in its negative avatar, can beat even the best of the sci-fi movies hollow. Whatever might be the enterprise we are in, we can afford to be oblivious of this fact, only at our own peril. 10 power assets, Mumbai, Tamil Nadu ports came under RedEcho cyberattack, should be taken as a timely warning for things which can go awry. The recent SolarWinds attack in the US on the government, its high profile agencies and several other private companies is a clear indication of the same trend.   A bit of a his...