Null Probe

Security is the buzzword everywhere. From cell to celestial the same question – What about Security? From Medical to Travel – Comment on Security? People are paranoid to go out, do things, take decisions without considering the aspects of security. Security comes before planning, in planning and after plans … Its a part of one’s [...]

DSCI (Data Security Council of India) has been established as an independent SRO (Self-Regulatory Organization) by NASSCOM, as an industry initiative to focus on best practices and standards for data protection. According to DSCI, its mission is stated as:
The Mission of DSCI is to create trustworthiness of Indian companies as global sourcing service providers, and [...]

Its been years since I am in a pit full of hacking news! I have seen serious crimes termed as ‘hack attempts’, breaches as ‘hacks’, opening a gadget as ‘hack’ or even thinking out of the box as ‘hacking’ the stereotype thought process. There are many definitions of hack but here is where the roots [...]

This is a very basic ruby script to validate a MD5 against the existing reports at VirusTotal (www.virustotal.com) Certain improvements in UI are yet to be included.
Working Logic: It checks the given MD5 (from a text file) and crafts a POST request, sends it to VirusTotal and checks the response. If the response is [...]

Bangalore or Bengaluru (Karnataka, IN), the IT Hub of India is well known for its growing number of IT industries and startups. In last decade Bangalore has made its name on the outsourcing map and IT industry so well that no wonder “bangalore” became an English word with a meaning. Western people who are [...]

Hakin9 has come up with a new issue (4.2009) with a punch line of “MY ERP GOT HACKED!”. This issue has got some real good stuff to ponder:
1. Nokia’s Vow of Silence by: Tam Hanna Nokia’s smartphone platform series 60 has never been known for its safety. It brought us Nokia’s [...]

It’s the kind of evening that anyone would expect me to be sitting in office for a snacks time conversation. But today due to some power problems, we called the day off pretty early. I was feeling a little restless, so came out and walked into a Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) to have an Expresso. [...]

Since the day of mid March when an invitation for being a e-surakshIT speaker popped in my mailbox, it’s been a wonderful journey filled with curiosity and impatience! First the Hyderabad chapter (9th May 2009) and then the Bangalore (15th May 2009). Both events graced with the presence of esteem audience, participation of speakers [...]

What is Cloud Computing? Wikipedia says “Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet.”
This concept incorporates: 1. IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) 2. PaaS (Platform as a Service) [...]