Monthly Archives: February, 2008
Delta-Northwest Merger
The possibility of the Delta-Northwest Airlines merger might be put off for a little longer. There are some issues to be sorted out before the merger goes ahead. It is important that the mistakes committed in the merger between US Airways and America West Airlines not be repeated. For the deal to go through, it …
More topics to come soon
We will start having new topics on the blog soon. This is with a view to not limit ourselves to technology alone. Finance and Business will get some prominence. So, watch out for this space!
YouTube gets blocked
It appears that some overzealous engineers at Pakistan Telecom in their bid to block YouTube hijacked its IP routing table by accident. They wanted to make sure pakistani internet users trying to access the site would be redirected. To make it worse, the information was leaked in to the wider internet leading to Internet Service …
Goolag: the easy way to hack
Don’t be mistaken by the title. Web site owners already have enough trouble from hackers scanning their web sites for vulnerabilities. This always involved complex scripts and tools but the hacking group ‘Cult of the Dead Cow’ (cDc) which is best known for creating the deadly Back Orifice trojan just released Goolag, an open-source tool …
Safety of encrypted data
Researchers at Princeton University demonstrated a way to steal encrypted data using nothing but a simple blast of frigid air from a can of dust remover. DRAMs which hold the main memory while the system is running have been touted to lose the memory after the power is shut off. The researchers have found otherwise. …
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