Bhavish Aggarwal, co-founder and chief executive officer of Ola Cabs, while commenting on the Microsoft Windows outage on July 19, said outages could happen due to âdeliberate action by bad actors”. On Friday, a flawed software update sent out by a cybersecurity company caused major computer outages around the world, and millions of Windows users…
Peter Thielâs Enhanced Games promise to be an annual sporting event that lets athletes use performance-enhancing drugs, nicknamed the pro-doping Olympics. The games have captured imaginations and money. But behind them is an unsettling effort spearheaded by tech billionaires like Thiel to use science and technology to enhance the human race. Their vision sounds alluring:…
Mule accounts, so named because they act as conduits for sending and receiving funds that do not belong to the bank account holder, usually remain dormant but can see a sudden spurt in typically low-value, high-volume transactions. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has urged banks to keep a close watch on such accounts. RBI…
