A friend who works in US and is currently on a month long business tour of India wrote an email some days back lamenting that Mumbai was still the same as it was three years back when he left for US; but Delhi and Gurgaon were rocking and so much action and feel good was in the air. Reading his email, I wondered if Mumbai was on a downward spiral. (more…)

Trojans [a malicious programme that is disguised as or embedded within legitimate software] are known to be sneaky and stubborn but do not spread on their own. And they are becoming stealthy exploits, according to reports from a variety of security vendors and researchers. (more…)

Every day we leave our laptops and PCs and happily tootle off around the office, grab a cup of tea, chat with colleagues or
generally just hide in some corner so that no one can find us. (more…)

Every one of us, who know a little more than the average Joe about computers, would have heard about configuration and power-on passwords that keep us from managing and even using our computers. The word is BIOS passwords. (more…)

Its 1st July and the rains are back in Mumbai, reviving memories of last July’s deluge, no matter how prepared is Mumbai

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