INSIDE Annual Day Celebrated with Pomp the 16Th Annual Day of the College Now, 16 Years and Marching

SUNDAY 13 Issue 2 October 2013 A FORTNIGHTLY BY SMCET TECH FORO

INSIDE Annual Day Celebrated with pomp The 16th Annual day of the college now, 16 years and marching. The Annual was formally introduced to the mass. was celebrated in grandeur on 29th Sep- Report was also presented by the Co- The students also filled the event tember. The whole What Industry Expects Kalayarkoil campus came 2 from You into life though it turned out to be a Sunday. Also mem- bers from other Michaelite World’s 25 Top Earning institutions turned up for 2 Internet Companies. the event. The eve was charmed by the Chief Guest P. R Senthil Nathan, Chairman, Backward Clas- Eventibus 3 ses Economic Develop- ment Corporation of the State Government along Nobel Prize This Year 4 with the Guest of Honour Prof. Dr. S. Gowri, Director, Educational Multimedia Research Centre, Anna Sneak-Peek– MAT 2014 5 University, Chennai.

The event was also graced with the presence of al- Excerpts from the drama staged by students on the eve of the 16th Annual Day Criss-Cross 2 5 most every dignitary of the function held at the SMCET campus. St. Michael management, who shared their memories that lead to ordinator Prof. S. Kannan. with colours with an array of exquisite Silhouette—INFOSYS 6 the realisation of the dream for the found- programmes, with the genre varying from er chairman Ln. Dr. V. Michael. The The distinguished students were dynamite dance performances, to melodi- Chairman of St. Michael Group of Institu- recognized during the event. The meritori- ous songs to dramas that were stuffed tions Ln. Dr. M. Stalin Arockiaraj also ous students in students, the outperform- with social messages and humour. Techabulary 6 relived the hardships that his father un- ers in sports and games were all felicitat- derwent to get the college, where it is ed. Also the college publication Anveshaa

Facebook Introduced Free Wi-Fi for business Windows 8.1 released Facebook, world‟s No. 1 Social pect a much wider rollout soon, though; TECH TOON Microsoft is releasing its long- website has now teamed up with Cisco according to Cisco's Sujai Hajela, Con- awaited Windows 8.1 upgrade as a free to provide customers free Wi-Fi access nected Mobile Experiences will be avail- download starting Thursday. It addresses along with targeted promotions and ads. able across some of the world's top some of the gripes people have had with The just-announced Connected Mobile brands in retail, hospitality and other Windows 8, the dramatically different oper- Experiences for Facebook Wi-Fi service markets. ating system that attempts to bridge the lets you hop online at participating retail divide between tablets and PCs. locations by simply connecting to the Windows 8.1 still features the dual local network and checking in on Face- book. From there, you'll be able to view information about the retailer, including special promotions and other news.

On the busi- worlds that Windows 8 created when it ness side, the benefits are obvious: Facebook's Wi-Fi service also came out last October. On one hand, it fea- more check-ins means more brand helps it forge closer relationships with tures a touch-enabled tile interface resem- GREAT THOUGHTS recognition, and companies will get plen- corporations by providing the businesses bling what's found in tablet computers. On ty of anonymous customer data to ana- anonymous demographic data about the other, there's the old desktop mode lyze. For shoppers, on the other hand, Facebook users coming through their where the keyboard and mouse still reign. it's free Wi-Fi and a targeted ad experi- doors and a widespread advertisement The update adds some new finger- and Decision is the spark that ignites ac- ence, complete with potential perks. to both the brands as well on a global gesture-friendly shortcuts for touch-based scale. tion. Until a decision is made, nothing apps, while restoring some respect for the Cisco and the social network ran desktop mode that a billion PC users have happens. a pilot of the program in Toronto last - S. Vigneshwaran become accustomed to before their literal month, and the service is currently up monopoly took a hit recently. – Wilfred A. Peterson and running at two Bloomin' Brands 2nd year CSE Bonefish Grill restaurants in the US. Ex-

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What industry expect from you? By: A. Abdul Salam Harif (Placement Officer, SMCET)

For now we had started a journey, which is the greatest leap to- Based on a good research conducted by World Academic Knowledge, Use of modern tools, Creativi- wards accomplishment or the realisation of one‟s dream, the hurdle ahead Bank, the skills which Indian employers demand from ty , Problem solving, Contemporary issues. can be viewed from two perspectives. On the optimistic side, the start has engineering graduates could be categorized into three been made, which stands as a big achievement for oneself, we over came factors: Professional Skills all odds and did it finally, we made it happen and so on. On the pessimistic 1. Communication Skills, 2. Core Employability Skills, These include various shades of following factors: side, its like having jumped into a trouble, characterizing the burden of ex- pectation, disoriented execution leading to outcomes not so much pleasant 3. Professional Skills. Reliability, Teamwork, Willingness to learn, Entrepre- to self, waste of resources especially money if the result was not the one neurship, Self-discipline, Flexibility, Empathy. that was anticipated and this list is obviously longer. Of the 3 above, though Core Employability Skills is the most important, but Communication Skills Now, as stated we achieved something great in our life by kick- are the ones which could be measured relatively easi- Guess Who??? starting what was just a fairy-tale dream for us, the job ahead is a bit more er, followed by Professional Skills during an interview. tougher. Because it is where the false sense of achievement can rip off the determination that you carried for the initiation. Citing an example, say if a Communication Skills person has been stranded at a place for so long that he finds it hard to sur- Send in your entries to vive, death peeps from the cliff. The moment his ordeal ends, when the These include various shades of language skills in [email protected] rescue is made, the chances of the person to die is the highest at that in- English: stance than it was when actually being in his „survival‟ mode. The sense of And the winner will be relief and security will tend his body to relax, and that turns dangerous and Written Communication, Reading, Listening, Technical featured in the next can be fatal even. terms, Verbal Communication. issue.

Once on the apex, the sense of having done must not take toll on its Core Employability Skills further steps. Lesser joy on victory will only inhibit with laser grief upon losing. Like Edison, who saw his failures in a witty manner, calling it his These include various shades of Academic skills: discoveries of “How to fail?”, failure must instigate in you the feeling of how badly you want to succeed and at the same time, victory must arouse in you World’s 25 Top Earning Internet Companies the need to hold to it, and keep up the triumph. Rank Name Founder per annum per second The burden of expectation will definitely gift sleepless nights. The need to keep up the anticipation and maintain that the first impression was not just a hype of what our ability is, if its enough to gain the talkabouts of 1. Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin $21,800,000,000 $691.27 people, the journey has just been started. Or on the other hand, lack of sternness and complete knowledge of the field that you have stepped into 2. Amazon Jeff Bezos $19,166,000,000 $607.75 can let you have another sensation, and that‟s of having jumped into water 3. Yahoo Jerry Yang and David Filo $7,200,000,000 $228.31 without knowing how to swim. Even if you know to swim, if you don't know, where‟s the land, is their any reason that you will be called safe? Little 4. eBay Pierre Omidyar $6,290,000,000 $199.45 knowledge is obviously a dangerous thing, but I personally hold an opinion that a little knowledge in every field is important for survival in today‟s world. 5. MSN/Live Nathan Myhrvold. $3,214,000,000 $101.92 And finally the greatest of all sins, if your initiative goes wrong, the loss of 6. PayPal Max Levchin, Peter Thiel $2,250,000,000 $71.35 resources that accompany it, especially money. It is then a failure of all sorts for the common people, but why doesn't anyone think like Edison. The 7. iTunes Jeff Robbin $1,900,000,000 $60.25 next time you go this way, you will be certain that this road leads to failure, and your chancers of succeeding have improved to a greater extent. Also, 8. Reuters Marshal Vace $1,892,000,000 $59.99 since you have already fallen into the sea of failure once, you have an ex- 9. Priceline Jesse Fink $1,884,000,000 $59.74 perience of what failure tastes like and where you end up after it. But what all is being talked about is not even present in most people‟s minds. And its 10. Expedia Added Mark Schroeder $1,447,000,000 $45.88 going to stay as such because the majority is favoured at most of the plac- es, and these views can be seen falling down right on the face. 11. NetFlix Reed Hastings $1,200,000,000 $38.05

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22. StubHub Eric Baker $400,000,000 $12.68 Hand of your entries to anyone of the editorial board or mail us at 23. Alibaba Jack Ma $316,000,000 $10.02 [email protected] 24. Facebook Mark Zuckerberg $300,000,000 $9.51 25. YouTube Chad Hurley, Steve Chen $300,000,000 $9.51

13th October 2013 Page 3 Eventibus The progress of SMCET TECH-FORO has been in full throttle, organizing some events with great cooperation from the college management.

1. Guest Lecture on System Software Conducted by: Department of Computer Science & Engineering C. Gomathi, Asst. Professor, Anna University Resource Person: (BIT Campus), Trichy th Duration: 1 day (October, 4 , 2013 )

Topics: Modern concepts on System software

Participation: Students from 3rd Year CSE & IT

2. Workshop on Web Application Development The SMCET TECH-FORO in association with Depart- Conducted by: ment of Computer Science & Engineering & thetygon.com Prof. K. Petchiappan, HOD, Department of CSE & Resource Person: Team Tygons th th Duration: 3 days (8 October—10 October, 2013) HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL and development of a Topics: Website

Participation: Final Year Students from EEE, ECE, IT & CSE

3. CCNA Crash Course Conducted by: Cisco Networking Academy

Resource Person: R. Sathyanath Premkumar, Cisco Instructor th th Duration: 6 days (7 —12 October 2013)

Topics: From top: Students attending the Web Application Develop- Basic Networking ment Workshop; Mrs. Gomathi, delivering a guest lecture; A preview of CCNA being delivered to the students by the in- Participation: Students from 3rd Year CSE, IT, ECE, EEE & MCA structor from CISCO

Magnetic Resonance in Chemical Engineering: Recent Advances & Future Prospects

Magnetic resonance imaging is well established as a some examples we are now able to study systems that could chemical engineering and the information that we have ob- technique in medicine and is increasingly used in non- not be studied to any significant extent using conventional tained. Areas of research that will be highlighted are: medical research. However, in chemical engineering its appli- magnetic resonance techniques.  characterization of bubble-size distributions in gas- cation has been limited by relatively slow data acquisition liquid bubbly flows times – typically, minute timescales. This lecture will summa- Various strategies for reducing data acquisition times  mapping unsteady-state flow fields rise our earlier work but focus on developments made over will be described. All approaches exploit concepts in under-  identifying new opportunities for employing low mag- the past 5 years addressing, in particular, our work on reduc- sampling of the time-domain (or k-space) data. Central to netic field magnetic resonance measurements ing data acquisition times. In some cases acquisition times many of these developments has been our engagement with  mapping chemical composition inside catalytic reac- have been reduced by an order of magnitude. When this mathematicians in applying Compressed Sensing and tors. improved temporal resolution is combined with the other Bayesian concepts in information processing to our acquisi- properties of magnetic resonance such as chemical specifici- tions. The general approaches used will be described but the -- Adwaith K. Vijay ty and the ability to probe optically opaque media; these ad- focus of the lecture will be on how we have used these new 4th Year Chemical Engineering vances offer a wealth of new applications for MRI. Indeed in acquisition strategies to address a range of problems in Page 4 13th October 2013

Literature Alice Munro, the renowned Ca- Nobel Prizes declared nadian short-story writer whose visceral work explores the tangled relationships between men and women, small-town existence and the fallibility of Anticipations pay off in Physics but not in Peace memory, won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature.

drugs. "The Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 2013 have made Announcing the award in Physics it possible to map the mysterious ways of chemistry by using Stockholm, the Swedish Academy computers," said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. said that Ms. Munro, 82, who has Two theoretical physicists who suggested that an written 14 story collections, was a invisible ocean of energy suffusing space is responsible for “master of the contemporary short the mass and diversity of the particles in the universe won story.” She is the 13th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday morning. They are the prize. The selection of Ms. Mun- Peter W. Higgs, 84, of the University of Edinburgh in Scot- ro was greeted with an outpouring of Alice Munro land, and François Englert, 80, of the Université Libre de enthusiasm all-over the world, a Bruxelles in Belgium. temporary relief from recent years when the Swedish Acade- my chose winners who were obscure, difficult to comprehend or overtly political.

Ms. Munro, widely beloved for her spare and psycho- From left: Randy W. Schekman, Thomas C. logically astute fiction that is deeply revealing of human na- ture, appeared to be more of a purely literary choice. She Südhof, James E. Rothman. revolutionized the architecture of short stories, often begin- ning a story in an unexpected place then moving backward Medicine/ Physiology or forward in time, and brought a modesty and subtle wit to her work that admirers often traced to her background grow- Two Americans and a German shared the Nobel ing up in rural Canada. Prize in physiology or medicine this year. Americans James E. Rothman and Randy W. Schekman, and German Thom-

Peter W. Higgs François Englert as C. Sudhof were awarded the prize Monday for discover- The mechanism predicts a particle - the Higgs boson ies of how the body's cells decide when and where to deliver World Space Week 2013 - which was finally discovered in 2012 at the Large Hadron the molecules they produce. Collider (LHC) at CERN, in Switzerland. CERN director gen- October 4-10 observed worldwide The Nobel Assembly said the three "have solved the eral Rolf Heuer said he was "thrilled" that this year's prize mystery of how the cell organizes its transport system." had gone to particle physics. "The discovery of the Higgs Every year space enthusiasts around the world cele- Their work focuses on tiny bubbles inside cells called vesi- boson at CERN marks the culmination of decades of intel- brate mankind‟s greatest achievements in space from 4 to cles, which move hormones and other molecules within cells lectual effort by many people around the world," he com- 10 October as part of World Space Week. This year we cel- and sometimes outside them, such as when insulin is re- mented. ebrated the exploration of Mars and how it helps us to un- leased into the bloodstream. Disruptions of this delivery sys- derstand ourselves and the world in which we live. The theory, elucidated in 1964, sent physicists on a tem contribute to diabetes, neurological diseases and immu- generation-long search for a tell-tale particle known as the nological disorders. The UN General Assembly resolution passed on 6th Higgs boson, popularly known (though not among physi- December 1999, declares 4 to 10 October World Space cists) as the God particle. The chase culminated last year Peace Week to celebrate each year at the international level the with the discovery of this particle, which confers mass on contributions of space science and technology to the better- other particles, at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, in Urging the de- ment of the human condition. Switzerland. Dr. Higgs and Dr. Englert will split a prize of struction of an “entire $1.2 million, to be awarded in Stockholm on Dec. 10. category” of unconven- 4 October, 1957: Launch of the first human-made Earth sat- tional weapons, the ellite, Sputnik 1. Norwegian Nobel Com- Chemistry 10 October, 1967: The signing of the Treaty on Principles mittee awarded its 2013 Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Peace Prize on Friday The Nobel Prize in chemistry went to three scientists Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, including the Moon and Oth- to a modest and little- who "took the chemical experiment into cyberspace". Mi- er Celestial Bodies. known United Nations- backed organization The World Space Week-2013 celebrations took off Organisation for the Prohibi- that has drawn sud- on Friday at ISRO establishments including Vikram den attention with a tion of Chemical weapons Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), ISRO Inertial Systems Unit mission to ensure that (IISU) and Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) here. Syria‟s stocks of chemical arms are eradicated. Inaugurating the celebrations at VSSC auditorium, Director of Public Instruction Biju Prabhakar lauded how the Indian The award, to the Organization for the Prohibition of Space Programme has always been focusing on the peace- From the left: Michael Levitt, Martin Karplus, Chemical Weapons, surprised some Nobel watchers partly ful use of outer Space. Arieh Warshel because of the unprecedented nature of its current task: overseeing the destruction of a previously secret chemical chael Levitt, a British-US citizen of Stanford University; US- weapons program quickly amid a raging civil war. Austrian Martin Karplus of Strasbourg University; and US- The eve also celebrated the so-called “discovery” of Despite the urgency and danger of its task, the or- Israeli Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California water in Mars. The current Mars exploration programme ganization had not been seen as a likely winner. In the days will share the prize. The trio devised computer simulations to Curiosity brought out an analysis of Martian soil, whose iso- leading up to the award, much attention was focused on understand chemical processes. topic analysis is making the presence of water near certain . individual candidates, including Malala Yousafzai, the 16- The rover took a sample of soil and heated it to obtain some In doing so, they laid the foundations for new kinds of year-old Pakistani who risked her life to campaign for girls‟ gases, one of which is thought to be water vapour. So the pharmaceuticals. Today, scientists routinely use modelling education and would have been the youngest recipient ever. theme of this year‟s space week spelled “Exploring Mars, to understand how different biological molecules interact, to Discovering Earth”

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Section Suggest- Section Name No. of Questions Sneak Peek - MAT 2014 No. ed time MAT stands for Management Aptitude Test. It is con- A large number of colleges I Language Comprehension 40 30 ducted by Centre for Management Services (CMS) which is (around 400 colleges) base their the specialized division of AIMA undertaking testing and oth- admission through MAT. Howev- II Mathematical Skills 40 40 er management services. The testing services have been in er, students are advised to check operation since 1988 under the trademark - All India Man- the credentials of the institutes III Data Analysis & Sufficiency 40 35 agement Aptitude Testing Services (AIMATS) facilitating aca- before they apply to any institute. Intelligence & Critical Reason- demia, industry and government to screen and select candi- IV 40 30 ing dates for higher studies, recruitment, promotion etc. Hun- When you are aspiring to dreds of organizations and lakhs of candidates have availed get into reputed management V Indian & Global Environment 40 15 these services. AIMATS has the unique distinction of being institutes to pursue the best the first to be awarded with ISO 9001: 2000 Certification for courses in Management - be it in Total 200 150 the range of services under its scope. Finance, Information systems, Strategy, Marketing, Opera- gence and Critical Reasoning, Indian and Global Environ- tions- for a career at global level, then it is crucial that you ment. While MAT is relatively an easier exam than CAT but Who Can Write MAT? emerge successful not just in examinations that will help you unprepared students would find that MAT also a tough nut to gain entry into management courses, but also build your fun- crack. Graduate in any discipline from a recognized universi- damental skills which provide you with the necessary head ty can write MAT. Final year degree course students can also start for a successful career. With most of the exams de- While a few good B-Schools under MAT are listed apply. MAT scores are considered by a wide range of B- signed to challenge your talent and potential, it is only natural below, students are advised to take expert guidance in the schools including some good B-schools. While some of the B that you may find these tests demanding and find yourselves matter of selecting / applying to B-Schools that take MAT. -Schools using MAT scores for admission also accept CAT competing with the country's best minds for those few covet- scores, MAT is a relatively easier exam than CAT. The com- ed seats. One such test which is conducted at an All India petition levels in MAT may also be lower than those in CAT. Level for gaining entry into prestigious Business Schools is Amity, Noida; NDIM, Delhi; Alliance, Ban- Management Aptitude Test-MAT. Test pattern galore BIMT (Retail, Insurance), Trichy; MAT is conducted by All India Management Associa- No. of Sections 5 tion four times a year – February, May, September, and De- IILM, Delhi; NILM, Delhi; M S Ramaiah , cember. Till May 2009, MAT has been only a Paper Pencil Bangalore; Siva Sivani, Hyderabad; SCMS, No. of questions 200 Test (conducted Offline). However, since September 2009 exam, Management Aptitude Test is being conducted in both Cochin; Christ College, Bangalore; XISS No. of questions for each section 40 the formats-Paper pencil as well as Computer based. This Ranchi; Alliance Business Academy; test has five different test areas:- Language Comprehension, BIMTECH, Noida; IPE-Hyderabad Time 150 minutes Mathematical Skills, Data Analysis and Sufficiency, Intelli-

ACROSS CRISS-CROSS 2 4 Considered as a Revolutionary OS Ever. 5 The father of 'Internet'

6 The Man Behind Google Doodle.

7 English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory.

8 Inventor of Resistor.

9 Legendary sports man who born on April 24, 1973.

10 The precursors of chess originated in India during DOWN

1 Founder of Wiki-Leaks.

2 Second Nobel Prize winner in INDIA.

3 In 'SRAM' S stands for.

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4 Dennis Ritchie 1 Fibonacci M.P Gokulnath 6 Blue House 2 Pierre Curie 7 Aryabhatta 3 Gerontology 4th year EEE You may hand over your entries to any members of 9 Al-Jazari 5 Australia Team Anveshaa or mail us your entries at 10 Motorola 8 Istanbul

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manner. A team at the Foundation identifies programs in the areas of Healthcare, Education, Culture, Destitute Care and Building Tomorrow’s Enterprise Rural Development.

Infosys is a global leader in consulting, technology tralia, Japan, Middle East, and Europe. Academic Entente and outsourcing solutions. As a proven partner focused on building tomorrow's enterprise, Infosys enables clients in Infosys' Global Academic Relations team forg- more than 30 countries to outperform the competition and es Academic Entente (AcE)[clarification needed] with aca- stay ahead of the innovation curve. With US$7.906bn in LTM demic and partner institutions. It explores co-creation oppor- Q2 FY14 revenues and 160,000+ employees, Infosys pro- tunities between Infosys and academia through case studies, vides enterprises with strategic insights on what lies ahead. student trips and speaking engagements. They also collabo- We help enterprises transform and thrive in a changing world rate on technology, emerging economies, globalization, and through strategic consulting, operational leadership and the research. Some initiatives include research collaborations, publications, conferences and speaking sessions, campus co-creation of breakthrough solutions, including those in mo- bility, sustainability, big data and cloud computing. visits and campus hiring.

The Infosys Story Infosys Labs In 1981, seven engineers N. R. Narayana “Silhouette” Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N. S. Raghavan, S. Gopalakrish- Infosys Labs is organized as a global network of re- nan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh and Ashok Arora after they At Infosys, we believe our responsibilities also extend search labs and innovation hubs. Infosys Labs collaborates resigned from Patni Computer Systems started Infosys Lim- beyond business. That‟s why we established the Infosys with leading national and international universities such as ited with just US$250. From the beginning, the company was Foundation to provide assistance to some of the most social- the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engi- founded on the principle of building and implementing great neering, University of Cambridge, Queensland University of ly and economically depressed sectors of the communities in ideas that drive progress for clients and enhance lives which we work. And it's why we behave ethically and honest- Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana Cham- through enterprise solutions. For over three decades, we ly in all our interactions – with our clients, our partners and paign, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, IITB-Monash have been a company focused on bringing to life great ideas our employees. Research Academy, Purdue University, International Institute and enterprise solutions that drive progress for our clients. of Information Technology, Bangalore.

It recognizes the importance of nurturing relationships Initiatives: that reflect our culture of unwavering ethics and mutual re- Infosys Prize spect. It‟ll come as no surprise, then, that 98 percent (as of Infosys Prize is an annual award given to scientists, Infosys Foundation September 30, 2013) of our revenues come from existing researchers, engineers and social scientists in India. It is clients. In 1996, Infosys established the Infosys Foundation, given by the Infosys Science Foundation, a not-for-profit trust to support the underprivileged sections of society.[26] At the which was set up in February 2009 by Infosys and some Infosys has a growing global presence with more than outset, the Infosys Foundation implemented programs members of its Board. The prize is given under six catego- 160,000+ employees worldwide, across 73 offices and 94 in Karnataka. It subsequently covered Tamil Nadu, Andhra ries. Each category includes a gold medallion, a citation cer- development centers in the United States, India, China, Aus- Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, and Punjab in a phased tificate, and prize money of Rs. 50 Lakh.

Government and educational institutions may also deploy for the 4K devices that followed in the next few years. research honeypots as a means of tracking unauthorized Techabulary access attempts and improving security solutions. While 4K is often used in reference to television, it can also refer to high-resolution computer monitors. For ex- ample, several hardware manufacturers now offer 4K dis- Favicon plays, which may also be called Hi-DPI monitors or retina displays. Honeypot A favicon is a small icon that identifies a website in a web browser. Most browsers display a website's favicon in A honeypot is a security system designed to detect the left side of the address bar, next to the URL. Some TEAM ANVESHAA and counteract unauthorized access or use of a computer browsers may also display the favicon in the browser tab, system. The name "honeypot" is used in reference to the next to the page title. Favicons are automatically saved Editor-in-Chief: RAHUL K. R way the system traps unauthorized users, such along with bookmarks or "favourites" as well. as hackers or spammers so they can be identified and pre- Executive Editor: AKSHAI KUMAR vented from causing further problems. Favicons have been around since the early 2000s and are supported by all major web browsers. However, Managing Editor: SHARATH L. K Honeypots are different than typical security solutions different browsers provide different implementations of the Sub-Editors: AJITH KUMAR; because they intentionally lure in hackers or users with mali- favicon. For example, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari cious intent. For example, a company may purposely create all display favicons in the address bar, but Google Chrome ADWAITH K.VIJAY; a security hole in their network that hackers could exploit to only displays them in the page tabs. Most browsers support S. VENKATARAMANAN; gain access to a computer system. The system might con- favicons saved as .GIF, .PNG, or .JPG files, but Internet tain fake data that would be of interest to hackers. By gain- Explorer only displays favicons saved in the .ICO format. SAYOOJ K.C ing access to the data, the hacker might reveal identifying information, such as an IP address, geographical location, computer platform, and other data. This information can be 4K used to increase security against the hacker and similar us- ers. 4K is a display standard that includes televisions, monitors, and other video equipment that supports a hori- Another example of a honeypot is an email honeypot zontal resolution of roughly 4,000 pixels. The most common designed to counteract spammers. It may be configured as a 4K standard is Ultra HD (or UHD), which has a resolution of fake email address that is intentionally added to known spam 3840 x 2160 pixels (3,840 pixels wide by 2,160 pixels tall). It lists. The email address can be used to track the servers and is exactly twice the resolution of HDTV (1920 x 1080) and relays that send spam to the honeypot account. This infor- has an identical 16 x 9 aspect ratio. mation can be used to blacklist certain IP addresses and domain names in anti-spam databases. An email honey- Mass production of 4K televisions began in 2013. pot can even be used as a counterattack tool, which for- Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, LG, Sharp, and other manufac- wards spam to the email addresses of identified spammers. turers now offer 4K televisions alongside their HDTV line- We are on the Web!!! ups. Several companies released high-resolution video cap- While honeypots are an effective way to monitor and ture devices prior to 2013 so that 4K video content would be Scan the QR code protect information systems, they can also be expensive to available for the new TVs. For example, Canon, JVC, and www.smcet.edu.in/techforo maintain. Therefore, honeypots are used primarily by large other companies released 4K digital video cameras in 2012. companies and organizations, rather than small businesses. RED released the RED ONE in 2007, which paved the way

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