Iran was tracking everything. A USA Navy contractor was stationed at the American naval base in Manama, Bahrain. He was a runner. He used Strava, the fitness tracking app that millions of people use to log their workouts. Every morning he logged his runs from the base. His route, his timing, his distance. All of …
On a Tuesday morning in January 2025, Tata Technologies filed a regulatory disclosure with the National Stock Exchange of India regarding a ransomware attack. The filing, submitted under Regulation 30 of SEBI’s Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements, stated: “The Company has become aware of a ransomware incident that has affected a few of our IT …
03 Indian Manufacturers, 03 Ransomware Attacks. The Attacker Never Went to the Factory. Read More »
Yesterday, a friend shared our group photo converted to an 80s style using ChatGPT. It looked great. We all loved it. And like most of you, I did not think twice about it. But later that evening I started thinking about something. That group photo had six people in it. One person uploaded it. Six …
On September 2, 2026, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 published details of a cyberattack it had investigated in which a human attacker used AI agents to breach an enterprise network. The attacker used more than 50 MITRE ATT&CK techniques. The entire operation took less than 10 hours. A skilled human red team conducting the same …
In April 2023, Samsung Electronics allowed employees in its semiconductor division to use ChatGPT. Within 20 days, three separate incidents had occurred. The first engineer pasted proprietary source code into ChatGPT to debug a technical error. The second submitted internal meeting notes to generate a summary. The third uploaded confidential chip manufacturing measurements to get …
Eight months into their HRMS implementation, the HR head of a Pune-based manufacturing company made a list. Not a list of problems. A list of processes her team had changed since the software went live. Leave policy restructured to match the platform’s leave categories. Shift attendance tracking moved from their existing system to the platform’s …
In 2021, a developer at a mid-size software company in Bengaluru was building a data pipeline late one night. The pipeline needed to connect to Amazon S3, the company’s cloud storage. The fastest way was to hardcode the AWS credentials directly into the script. He would replace them with environment variables in the morning. He …
Revenue has numbers. ₹42.7 crore against a target of ₹45 crore. Down 5.1% quarter on quarter. Two stalled deals accounting for the majority of the shortfall. Decision required on whether to adjust the Q3 forecast or accelerate pipeline. That sentence contains five numbers and one decision prompt. It is what a board needs to govern. …
ATO is a real threat. This is based on a true incident: a student in Pune downloaded what looked like a study planner app. It had good reviews. It did what it said. He used it for two weeks without any problem. What he did not know was that the app was also running silently …
ATO Fraud Is Up 310% in India and Cost US Banks $12.5 Billion Read More »
Last year I visited a manufacturing plant in Pune that had done everything right. The company is working on compliance to prepare for an IPO by 2027-2028. Two years of focused digital transformation. A vendor management portal that let 40 suppliers update their details, submit invoices, and track delivery status without a single phone call …
