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Whatsapp Security

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The evolution of different technological tools to enhance communication is growing at a mind boggling pace. With the advent of the Internet in mid 90’s – we have seen messengers like Yahoo messenger, Windows Messenger and then we moved onto Google Talk, Skype, Viber and a number of social media tools like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn finally now we have ‘Whatsapp’.  All these and more have been born more on the necessity to communicate more effectively and in real time. The popularity of Whatsapp followed by its security limitations forms the basis of this post. Why is Whatsapp’s Popularity increasing? : […]

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Tech Skills for 2016

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With the New Year under way most of us feel the need to rejuvenate ourselves with new skills in the tech industry. New aspirations, new career choices and the need to step up our career, motivates most of us. The skills that will likely to shape our career this year, is explored in this post. Programming languages like Java,C, C++, Python The concept of programming was a new one in the 90s, but not so now. It is more natural and normal for young teenagers to be in tune with the different programming languages and their importance. ‘Hackathons’ are organized

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You Too Can Become A Web Designer- Learn How

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People say a lot of things about web design. The most interesting thing is that very few people understand the dynamics of this art and the fact that it can be done by just about anyone. You do not have to be an engineer with expertise in software development in order to do web design. Anyone can do website design. All that you need is a clear understanding of the basics of web design. Within a surprisingly short time you will be on the way to creating your first website without having to pay a fortune in the process. Getting

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Business Continuity plans(BCP) and Chennai floods

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In wake of the incessant rains in south India and the resultant flooding organizations had to put their ‘business continuity plans’ (BCP) into action. No sooner did the rains lash the relatively dry area did the city know of a new natural disaster that was getting unleashed. Coping with this new type of natural disaster required a BCP (business continuity plans) for most organizations in Chennai. What is BCP? ‘Business continuity’ may be an InfoSec professional’s domain of expertise but it was the need of the hour in Chennai. ‘Business continuity’ is planning to continue businesses at another location after disaster

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Tor – The Onion Router

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Social media keeps us all firmly wrapped in its arms and life is as usual on the net oblivious to the many “virtual eyes”. Customer data is another new gold and grabbing it is the necessity of the day. “Deep web” or the “Dark net” is the place where there is no Internet surveillance. The “Deep web” was earlier only associated with criminal activities but that may be changing with a new set of extremely privacy conscious individuals who also seek anonymity while surfing. This is possible with browsers like Tor, Freenet, I2P and Tails. In addition, ‘The Deep web’

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MongoDB: The Benefits of Hiring Top Remote DBA Experts

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NoSQL solutions like MongoDB are gaining popularity over traditional table-based relational database management systems (RDBMS) like MySQL. The greatest benefits of NoSQL over RDBMS are: With RDBMS, you need a string in the query language (SQL or Structured Query Language) parsed by the DB system. This is dangerous as it exposes your database to SQL injection attacks. NoSQL, on the other hand, is object-oriented, meaning you pass a document with an explanation of what you are querying. There is no parsing. You will not be responsible for defining the schema when using NoSQL like MongoDB. You only need to drop

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Data warehousing concepts

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Long before Hadoop and Big Data made a big splash on the IT stage, the necessity for “Data warehouses” was growing in the business world. There was disparate data on Excel sheets, flat files, data bases and there was no single understanding of this data. We have seen all this and more in our previous blog post. “Data warehouses” were created and a well designed data warehouse comprised of cleaned data from different sources that enables an organization to make critical business decisions.  We dig deeper into Data warehousing by discussing the Father of Data warehousing followed by the different

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Whizlabs Announces Six Sigma Black Belt Online Course

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With carrying over 14 years of experience in the Technology and Project Management fraternity, Whizlabs is a renowned global leader that offers online courses and certification programmes to more than 2 million users till now. The mission statement of Whizlabs clearly states: ‘To get everyone certified nobody left out’. Since its existence from over a decade and a half ago, every possible effort is being made to offer certification programme in several domains viz. Oracle Java, Project Management, Big Data and Apache Hadoop Online Course along with Six Sigma certifications. Amongst the aforesaid, Whizlabs has launched a certification programme in

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Net Neutrality in India – what will happen?

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Now that ‘Net Neutrality’ or ‘NN’ is on everyone’s mind and it is creating a flurry of outbursts and supporters, this post aims to provide a brief overview of what is meant by net neutrality and what will happen if it is not enforced. The term ‘Net Neutrality’ itself was created by Tim Wu, a Columbia University professor in 2003(who wouldn’t have dreamt that it would be the point of high interest worldwide!) Overview: The whole debate on net neutrality began in earnest in India when one of the big   telecom companies decided to charge more for consumers using Skype

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Mobile security

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Look around you and you will see the world crouching and twiddling its thumbs on a rectangular electronic device or speaking on a bigger than normal handset with a faraway look- the “smart phone”! No longer is the phone just considered a “phone” for oral communication purposes but it is used for other purposes as well – like bill payment, online shopping, chatting, social networking, instant messaging, playing games and so on. “Smart phones” or “mobiles” have become cheap and much more affordable enabling the world to slowly but surely move from a strictly desktop society to a more mobile

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