A Purdue University student, who was charged with murder after he stabbed his Indian American roommate to death in October 2022, has been found fit to stand trial, media reports said. Ji Min Sha, a 22-year-old cybersecurity major from South Korea, stabbed Varun Manish Chheda, 20, a data science student, inside their first-floor McCutcheon Hall room on Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus in Indiana.
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RSA Conference 2023 – Stronger Together
By Prakash Narayan- RSA(Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) Conference 2023 this year attracted over 40,000 cybersecurity professionals as well as tech enthusiasts to hear industry leaders, experts’ perspectives and learn about the incredible innovations and understand the industry’s best practices. Held at Moscone Center in San Francisco from April 24 through 27, the theme for this year’s conference was […]
Column: The Growing Opportunities in Cybersecurity
By Niharika Srivastav and Sanjay Saxena- The cybersecurity market is expected to grow from $172.32 billion in 2023 to $424.97 billion in 2030 as per the projections. The number of unfilled jobs in cybersecurity remains at 3.5 million in 2023, with over 750,000 of those positions in the United States. Why is there so much […]
Fox News will pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million in damages
A combination of factors, including the ignominy of its mendacious star anchors having to testify, has compelled Fox News to reach a massive out-of-court settlement with Dominion Voting Systems.
Under the settlement, Fox News will pay Dominion $787.5 million dollars. “The truth matters. Lies have consequences,” Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson said in a news conference outside the courthouse.
Indian American Dr Sanjay Rai appointed acting secretary for Maryland Higher Education Commission
Indian American Dr Sanjay Rai was appointed as the acting secretary for the Maryland Higher Education Commission by Governor Wes Moore on April 12.
Rai has advanced innovations that bolster student success in academic, career, technical, and workforce development programs throughout his career. He has worked to remove barriers to educational access through the redesign of developmental education, revision of alternate placement policies, and embedding of coaches in classrooms to increase student success.
How ASEI is nurturing US-India technology and entrepreneurial ecosystem
On February 19, ASEI celebrated its 40th anniversary as well as ‘Engineers Week’, at a small event at Amber in Palo Alto, California where Malik shared the vision and formation of the non-profit in 1983.
RSA President Ghai, Star Trek’s Takei talk cybersecurity vulnerabilities at conference
Prakash Narayan- The RSA conference is an IT Security conference held around the world several times a year. One of the bigger events in this series is in San Francisco – usually in late February or early March. This year’s conference was from Feb 24-28 at the Moscone Center. Here is some background about this […]
Information and communications technology employment to grow by 3.9% in 2020
indica News Bureau- IDC report says cybersecurity, data science, and machine learning process will see the fastest growth International Data Corporation (IDC), an American provider of market intelligence, advisory services, released its first Worldwide Technology Report which says that full-time information and communications technology (ICT) employment will reach 55.3 million worldwide in 2020, an […]
Telegram founder Durov urges WhatsApp users to delete rival messenger over security
indica News Bureau- The founder of Telegram, the messenger app, Parel Durov, in a post on the platform, has urged people to delete WhatsApp unless they are “okay with surveillance,” according to news media reports. Facebook-owned WhatsApp, which has been mired by a snooping row, is used as a Trojan horse to spy on the […]
TiEcon is back
Ritu Jha – With the theme Start, Connect and Scale, TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs)’s annual conference is back to its old name. Last year, the organization changed it to TiE Inflect, a name that did not come easily off the tongues of members. So, the conference’s board went back to the old name, the traditional panels, while still finding […]