Social engineering is quite possibly the least popular means of attacking a network currently employed in penetration testing. It certainly receives the least media attention. These attacks, however, can prove quite costly and should be guarded against. This sort of attack can allow the attacker to bypass the security mechanisms of a network without using […]
8,000 HIV infected converge in Hyderabad
Over 8,000 people living with HIV from all over Andhra Pradesh converged at Shilparamam here on Friday and signed the ‘Hyderabad Declaration’. The declaration, a collective effort of individuals, organisations and agencies working on issues related to HIV/AIDS, includes a promise to ensure that through the ‘0/7 campaign,’ HIV infection in newborn children would be […]
Sensitisation, education and awareness improve the quality of lives of haemophiliacs
Haemophilia is a genetic blood disorder, better known as a disease of the Royal families of Europe. Queen Victoria was a carrier of the defective chromosome and she passed it on to several of her offspring through whom it travelled to the royal famil ies of Germany and Russia. However, not many know that many […]
NAIS: Do You Want, Or Need, A Radio Frequency ID System For Your Chicken?
Ask yourself the following; What’s the dumbest thing you can think of if you have one chicken. I published this about a year ago and NAIS disappeared from the radar but, as most of us know when big money is at stake and government officials who are more interested in serving themselves than serving the […]
A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF YOUR MIND
What is the self? How does the activity of neurons give rise to the sense of being a conscious human being? Even this most ancient of philosophical problems, I believe, will yield to the methods of empirical science. It now seems increasingly likely that the self is not a holistic property of the entire brain; […]
The Weapon of Boycott
In pre independence India, Mahatma Gandhi organized the boycott of foreign goods both as an act of defiance to the British as well as to give a boost to the local Indian economy by promoting the use of Khadi and other indigenous products. I wonder why that potent weapon has gone into disuse. When […]