A few days ago I received a phone call from a person asking for my services to help him recover data from a failed hard disk. I asked the caller whether he had internet access—sometimes the failed disk takes with it the only available computer. The caller explained that he had internet access and that […]
Vedanta, Chidambaram, Chattisgarh and Maoist
Vedanta is a mining company headquartered in London. Anil Aggarwal and Naveen Aggarwal are the owners of this company. They have huge mining interest in several states of the country including in the Chattisgarh state of India. Chattisgarh is a mineral rich state that was carved out of Madhya Pradesh on November 1, 2000. The […]
The Tor Network: Anonymity Online
“The idea of forcefully having people live with a religious symbol they do not believe in is sheer stupidity. Crosses should go. The government is acting stupidly on the issue.” I can make such a statement because I live in a democracy. Not everyone has this luxury. In some countries, such a statement directed at […]
Cyber Crimes
WHAT IS CYBER CRIME? Being by far the latest puzzler amongst law-enforcement agencies, Cyber crime is perhaps the most complicated problem in the cyber world. “Cyber crime may be said to be those species, of which, genus is the conventional crime, and where either the computer is an object or subject of the conduct […]
"Sixth Sense Device" Launch Indian Greek
28-year-old Pranav Mistry, a MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) based researcher hailing from Gujarat has created a digital prototype of a "sixth sense" device that is being currently evaluated by corporations including Google, Microsoft, HP and Samsung. To briefly describe what this sixth sense is all about, we need to understand how the current dissemination […]
Microsoft Makes the COFEE
We now know as of yesterday that, since June of 2007, law enforcement agencies have been making use of a computer security-bypassing piece of hardware made by Microsoft called COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor). The USB thumb drive contains 150 Microsoft programmed special commands to allow the user to decrypt passwords, recover all of […]