What-in-the-World!
Published By rsivanandan On Tuesday, September 23rd 2008. Under Life in general
The Managing Director of an MNC was beaten to death by the employees (ex-employees)! Source: http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080066331 The managing director of a company in Greater Noida, just outside Delhi, was beaten to death on Monday by workers, who were fired two months ago. ... Continue Reading
Photos – Pentax Optio A10
Published By rsivanandan On Sunday, September 21st 2008. Under Life in general
Some snaps from my camera! Well, I like ‘em, don’t know about Ya’ll :-) ... Continue Reading
Region Codes on DVD Players
Published By rsivanandan On Sunday, September 21st 2008. Under Life in general
It is old story that DVD has region codes and only when the DVD disk has the same region code as the DVD player, the movie would be played and otherwise the player wouldn’t play it. Now understand that this is one of the movement against piracy. The ... Continue Reading
Microsoft’s “I am a PC” Ads– Good Ones.
del.icio.us Tags: "I am a PC",Microsoft ... Continue Reading
DHCP Attacks
Published By rsivanandan On Saturday, September 20th 2008. Under Attacks/Exploits
Does DHCP provide any kind of security? NOPE! It is an admin’s job to use supplemental devices/software's to prevent it. 2 attacks to look at; 1. DHCP Flooding :- Think about if someone keeps flooding the DHCP requests and the server keeps assigning until the pool ... Continue Reading
Does having VLAN help prevent MAC Flooding?
Published By rsivanandan On Saturday, September 13th 2008. Under Attacks/Exploits
When we speak about MAC flooding, almost everyone with Information Security insight knows about what it is. What do one achieve with MAC flooding? There are various ways of looking at it. Take an enterprise class switch, and see the spec’s as to how many mac addresses ... Continue Reading
Tech Wonders!
Published By rsivanandan On Wednesday, September 10th 2008. Under Tech in general
Well, this week as of now 2; Over 30% of Attack/Exploit traffic coming from Japan (yeah read it again, it is Japan) ? Rumor about Juniper Networks eyeing Aruba or Meru Networks? Good move, why reinvent when something is already there, provided you’re funded :-) ... Continue Reading
Smoking Banned From Oct 2nd
Published By rsivanandan On Tuesday, September 9th 2008. Under Life in general
Well, I don’t understand, here is the snip from NDTV News; The government on Tuesday announced that smoking would be banned in all public places from October two. The ban would include hotels, restaurants and offices, Union Health Minister Anbumani ... Continue Reading
Google Translation Magic
Published By rsivanandan On Tuesday, September 9th 2008. Under Life in general
It is very interesting to write, today I got a visitor from Italy, who liked the blog and also gave the URL to his blog. I checked out and it was in Italian. Well, I do not know any other foreign language other than English. So used Google ... Continue Reading
Technical or Management???
Published By rsivanandan On Sunday, September 7th 2008. Under Life in general
At some phase of everyone’s career, this challenge for sure is going to popup! So how does one choose if he wants to be Technically challenged or explore Management aspects of any kind. In traditional industry, it is evident and easier to make this choice, since the path ... Continue Reading


