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Tamil director Shankar, better known as Steven Spielberg of India, has been bitten by the blogging bug.

He has started his own blog, in his websiteh http://www.directorshankaronline.com/. This will also be a promotional tool for Enthiren, his new film with Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai in the lead.

At the beginning of this decade, Microsoft represented a cybercriminal’s dream target: universally-used software, brimming with bugs ready to be exploited to hijack users’ PCs. But as the software giant has slowly cleaned up its security flaws, hackers are looking toward another vendor whose products are nearly as ubiquitous and whose bounty of vulnerabilities are just being discovered: Adobe.

According to Verisign’s bug tracking division iDefense, 45 bugs in Adobe’s ( ADBE – news – people ) Reader software were found by either cybersecurity researchers or malicious hackers this year and patched. In 2008, iDefense found 14 Reader bugs, double the number in 2007.

Meanwhile, the number of bugs found in commonly-used Microsoft ( MSFT – news – people ) programs like Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and Microsoft Office remained flat or dropped. Just 30 bugs were exposed in Internet Explorer compared with the same number last year, and 41 bugs were found in all of Microsoft’s Office programs like PowerPoint, Word and Excel, down from 44 in 2008.

Computers crashed across the CAT exam centres for the second consecutive day on Sunday, forcing the directors of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) into a huddle and the company entrusted with carrying out the online test scramble for resources.

Around 5,000 students will now have to take the Common Admissions Test (CAT) afresh at new dates throwing the original 10-day schedule into disarray. Technical experts blamed U.S. based Prometric – the agency entrusted with carrying out the first online version of CAT – for underestimating the magnitude of the task. “They didn’t even have a Plan B,” said a top official of another firm that runs online examinations, on condition of anonymity. Prometric said it has quarantined 50 labs across 14 centres on Sunday, and blamed the fiasco on a virus attack that went undetected