Making Safety a Priority

The Office of Laboratory Safety and Environmental Health (OLSEH) at IISc, barely three years old, is on a mission to bring the 111-year-old Institute’s safety practices up to global standards. CONNECT caught up with the Chair of OLSEH, Sushobhan Avasthi, Associate Professor at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, who spoke about the setting […]

Can Cryptography Keep us Safe in an Increasingly Digital World?

In the second part of our series on cryptography, we dive into why we are experiencing increasing privacy violations In early February this year, an ethical hacker called Victor Gevers revealed that he could track the movements of 2.5 million Chinese Xinjiang Muslims in real-time on a site that belonged to a Chinese surveillance company, […]