Be aware of online data breaches
In 2019, almost 40% of humans are using a smartphone. That is nearly 3.3 billion users, many of them use several apps/websites on a daily basis. All this generates a…
Security
Google Plus and making secure products
Even though I thought that the “Don’t be evil” mantra of Google was nothing more than a brilliant marketing slogan, I always admire(d) the company for its engineering and security…
Why I pity normal people?
I feel pity for “normal” (Non-Technical Savvy) people – as it is becoming ever more difficult NOT to fall a prey to trickery and lose your hard earned money. See…
Why Uber cannot be exonerated?
Lot has been written about the Uber incident that happened two weeks back in Delhi. Most of them were understandably outbursts calling for banning Uber. I condemn the incident strongly…
Being secure is common sense
Today the news is about Customers who paid by credit card at 51 UPS Store locations across 24 states in the USA are at risk of their credit card being…
Outlook phishing attack
Today I got the above email in my Hotmail email ID with title reading “Unusual sign-in activity”. I haven’t been to South Africa but I thought some hacker might have…
Heartbleed–Internet Software should be polygamous
The last few days the news has been all about the Heartbleed internet security vulnerability that may have helped hackers to access thousands of users passwords and security certificates from…
How SQL Injection saved a day
The incident happened more than a decade back, should be in 1998 or 99. At that time I was a consultant to a popular online news portal, I got a…