Tagged: Internet

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Monitoring Internet connection at Home using Healthchecks.io, Termux and CouchDB

For last few days we have been running a dog cam to watch Max. whenever we are away. Max is getting older, faster than I think. So even though he is very comfortable staying alone at home 1, we like to keep an eye on him for our sanity. The camera is nothing...

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Getting started with IBM Iot Platform

I am planning to add some PM2.5 & PM10 sensors to my network for sensors which are at this point plain weather stations. With this I also wanted to explore a more scalable way of hosting data. Something that I can do easily and that I can suggest other readers. Some of my...

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Exploring Astronomy with Internet connected telescopes

As a teenager I was very curious about stars and galaxies. Only time we could get to see something related was an yearly school trip to Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore. As I grew up my interest moved to technology from science. Mostly because technology gave me an opportunity to tinker with. When I...

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Why India is so vulnerable to Cyber Attacks?

Table of Contents1 Communication conundrum2 Butchering the bugs3 Speed thrills, and leaves companies open to breaches4 When process is boring5 Ignoring internal security threats6 Struggling with system maintenance7 Tackling external threats In mid-August, news reports on the Scorpène leak — over 22,000 pages of sensitive data related to India’s Scorpène-class submarines was compromised...

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Book: Spam Nation

Spam Nation by Brian Krebs reads like a crime thriller. For cyber security enthusiasts Krebs is no stranger. He has been writing about cyber security and crime on his blog KrebsOnSecurity for more than seven years now and before that at WaPo. I have been reading his blog for more than half a...

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WhatsApp – Fast Lane to Fake News in India

WhatsApp is huge in India. It reaches common man much more than Facebook or Twitter in India. It’s so big that government authorities in India use WhatsApp for information dispersal or get information. For a lot of people in India WhatsApp is their window to Internet. For good or bad a lot of...