Have you tracked your 10,000 steps today? Has anyone else tracked them? Fitness trackers are big business, helping people get and stay fit, and helping them share their progress with friends – and sometimes with strangers. Probably the most well-known of these devices (and apps) are the FitBit and apps paired with the Apple Watch,…
Traditional marketing has been challenged by the digital marketing in today’s world of smart phones and laptops. People are available more online than on television sets or outside hanging out with friends. The culture has become such that people like to shop online, talk online, and eat online. In a nutshell, internet of things has…
Counter crime agencies in United States (US), United Kingdom (UK) and other European countries have initiated investigation into a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that disrupted websites of Amazon, PayPal, MasterCard, VISA and PostFinance and several others . The attacks were launched by hacktivists supporting WikiLeaks in response to suspension of services…
Data Science has emerged as a new way of tackling industrial challenges. But it is not limited to only solving problems and maximizing profits for large corporations. It has entered into every field and is transforming the way we understand and experience our existence. It is helping in curing cancer; solving global warming; locating new…
The cyber world has been awash with hacker activity and notably the biggest reports over the past few months are concentrated in the Middle East. These hacker activities and incidences of malware attacks have now been established to be politically instigated. The attacks have been aimed at Iran and their nascent nuclear ambitions. The attacks…
In the infancy of computer science and computer programming, it was a thrill to have a RAM of 64K or to create a logic circuit that reacted “properly” to certain on and off switches. When I went to university to study engineering and computer science my teachers were working on semi conductor technology to be…
ISO 27001 is designed to help businesses to protect their information assets. One of the ISO management system standards, ISO 27001 provides benchmarks for the management of information security in any kind of organization. It provides a sound and integrated structure for an Information Security Management System (ISMS) allowing the organization to better manage their…
When you think of the term data mining, what comes to mind? If an image of a mine shaft and miners digging for diamonds or gold comes to mind, you’re on the right track. Data mining involves digging for gems or nuggets of information buried deep within data. While the miners of yesteryear used manual…
It seems that the security risk to federal cyber security introduced by a new or emerging technology is inversely proportional to the convenience it offers to industry. Every few years a hot capability comes along that instantly has businesses clamoring to adopt it, while security professionals scramble to discover and address its vulnerabilities. Wireless networking…
It is said that brain is still the least understood organ of the human body. There are several areas in the human brain whose functions we do not know and have yet to discover. However, despite the odds, the psychologists have come up with several techniques and therapies that help ease the mental and emotional…