Fin Ring

Fin Ring 

The Indian invention that going to rule technology world soon

 What is Fin Ring?

               It's a tiny ring you can wear on your thumb and control every smart device you own including your phone, music player, camera and gaming systems. This really is the closest thing to the technology you see on Iron man or any other Hollywood flick. It is an advancement in technology towards next generation control mechanisms.

Who invented it?

               Let's take pride in the fact that this invention belongs to none other than a young  23 year old Indian by the name of Rohildev N hailing from Kerala.  Rohildev N, who grew up in Malappuram in Kerala and who graduated from Kathir College of Engineering in Coimbatore in 2012. 

               Eight months ago he established RHL Vision Technologies at the Startup Village in Kochi to work on touch less technologies, a project he started during his final year of engineering.

What is its turnover?

             It has raised about $200,000 from some 1,600 people around the world who have pre-ordered the product. This is the second Indian hardware-cum-software start up to have had a great innings on a crowd funding platform in recent times. 

            Late last year, Gecko, a coin-sized electronic device with a multitude of uses and developed and marketed by a Bangalore start up, raised orders worth $135,485, more than double the initially targeted $50,000.

What is the price?

          Fin will be priced at $120 each, but that cost could come down with mass manufacturing. The first shipments are expected in September. 

What is the use?

         For the visually impaired, Fin's promises are amazing - simple taps on their fingers can help them dial a number, navigate using a map, open and read out an SMS, control their wheelchair.

                "There's no effort, no stress. Unlike other touch less technologies, you don't have to raise your hand, wave your arms, nothing that tires you," says Rohildev. For instance, Ring, from California-based Logbar, can be used to perform functions similar to those that Fin can, but it involves gestures.

Demo video?

                 Thus yet another invention is ready to rule the technology for upcoming years ... Hopefully this will give enthusiasm for upcoming Indian talents and young innovators ...  

Heartbleed bug

Heart bleed bug 

What is heart bleed attack?

             
                   Heartbleed is a flaw in Open SSL, the open-source encryption standard used by majority of sites on the web that need to transmit data users want to keep secure. It basically gives you a "secure line" for data transfer. Encryption works by making it so that data being sent looks like nonsense to third parties.

                  Occasionally, one computer might want to check that there's still a computer at the end of its secure connection, so it will send out what's known as a "heartbeat" a small packet of data that asks for a response. 

                  Due to a programming error in the implementation of Open SSL, the researchers found that it was possible to send a well-disguised packet of data that looked like one of these heartbeats to trick the computer at the other end of a connection into sending over data stored in its memory.

How was it detected?

       
                   The flaw was first reported to the team behind Open SSL by Google Security researcher Neel Mehta, and independently found by security firm Codenomicon.

                   According to the researchers who discovered the flaw, the code has been in Open SSL for approximately two years, and utilizing it doesn't leave a trace.

How is it harmful?

                   Web servers can keep a lot of information in their active memory, including user names, passwords, and even the content that user have uploaded to a service. According to Vox.com's Timothy Lee, even credit card numbers could be pulled out of the data in memory on the servers that power some services.

                    But worse even than that, the flaw has made it possible for hackers to steal encryption keys, the codes used to turn gibberish encrypted data into readable information.

                    With encryption keys, hackers can intercept encrypted data moving to and from a site's servers and read it without establishing a secure connection. This means that unless the companies running vulnerable servers change their keys, even future traffic will be susceptible.

What should I do now to protect myself?

                  You should change passwords immediately, especially for services where privacy or security are major concerns. Log out of all websites.

Which website passwords I have to change?

Which websites I don't need to worry about?

What steps are taken to fix it?

                     Undoing the damage that has potentially already been done won't be easy. Websites are patching the hole, but the job won't be complete until all websites purge all the old keys they've been using to encrypt data. 

                     That means hackers and and potential government spies who were secretly aware of this flaw would have got access to special keys they can use repeatedly until a website revokes them. And there's where it gets complicated. 

                   Thus web service providers are working over securing the channel and rectifying flaws occurred earlier.


                  So, yet another security issue has been found to show the threat of growing internet services over security of users. " How much ever secure a system is developed, a system to break that security is developed ... "