In an ongoing investigation of controversial apps developed for auctioning Muslim women—especially journalists—online, several arrests have taken place in the past few days following outrage on social media. The culprits included  freelance web developer Aumkareshwar Thakur from Indore, who allegedly created the Sulli Deals app that listed hundreds of Muslim women for auction by sourcing their morphed pictures, Niraj Bishnoi, the alleged creator of a similar app called Bulli Bai in Assam and Shweta Singh, Mayank Rawal and Vishal Kumar Jha. In light of this brewing conversation around cyber safety, Dr Gaurav Gupta and Dr Garima Gupta’s book Cyber Unsafe: A Handbook for Preventing Computer Frauds and Cyber Crimes (Vilvam Publications India Private Limited) proves particularly useful. 

mid-day spoke to Gupta, who is the first Indian to earn a doctorate in the field of digital forensics, about his book.