Tag: life

  • Stuxnet – The New Generation Control Systems Computer Worm

    Stuxnet is a Windows-specific computer worm first discovered in June 2010 by VirusBlokAda, a security firm based in Belarus. It is the first discovered worm that spies on and reprograms industrial systems. It was specifically written to attack Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems used to control and monitor industrial processes.Stuxnet includes the capability…

  • The Google Threat

    If you have watched movies like Die Hard 4.0 or War Games you can potentially know how much can be done with information on centralized systems. Though the themes of these movies are fiction, reality is quite close or even worse. Consider the amount of information Google has. They have an awful lot of data.…

  • What to Blog!

    Its quite a while since my last post. Life has kept me very busy! Too many things happened in my life during this period that many blogs can be expected on these happenings. Nothing could be a perfect gift as my son’s birth just 2 hrs before the clocks strikes 12:00 to celebrate my birthday.…

  • Workflow’s Children

    There is a scene in the movie ‘Up in the Air’ where an executive would be creating a business process workflow to fire an employee. The intension of creating it was that any dumb person can get to do that just by following the workflow. Funny it may be, but that is how life and…

  • Avatar Movie – A Common man’s review

    I did not show much interest on this movie as I first saw the dubbed trailer on a Tamil channel expecting it to a be a below average movie promoted by the channel’s excellent marketing team. I really didn’t know till yesterday that it is a James Cameron movie. In fact I wanted to watch…

  • Blink!

    If you rewind life’s experiences you would note that most decisions are made at minimal time rather than planned and informed decision. While some attribute it to luck and some to experience Malcolm Gladwell attributes it to what he calls ‘Thin Slicing’: our ability to gauge what is really important from a very narrow period…