Bridging digital divide

Until recently, most western countries thought of India as a land ruled by age old traditions, and foreigners visited the country to understand this. However, the 1990s saw India awakening to the world of economic liberalisation and undertook structural reforms that attracted foreign investments, unlocked entrepreneurial aptitude and led to the emergence of a neo…

Gender bias in science has to go

Amrita Chowdhury is a technology wizard who holds seven US patents in semi-conductor manufacturing. She is the author of Breach, an intriguing, multi-layered narrative that explores the realms of cyber crime and intellectual property rights. Here she discusses with Zehra Naqvi the need to be cagey in the virtual world and how women are coming…

Android on par with Windows as medium of cybercrime

Some 16 million mobile devices have been infected by malicious software globally as of the end of 2014, according to the latest security report by Motive Security Labs, Alcatel-Lucent’s security arm. Such malware is used by “cybercriminals for corporate and personal espionage, information theft, denial of service attacks on business and governments, and banking and…