April, 2010 - Home

India completely un-prepared for cyber crime and espionage shows report

Sanjay Katkar / 16 years
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Shadows in the Cloud report (link to PDF) which was recently published by researchers in Canada shows India most vulnerable and most infected nation amongst all. This report documents a complex ecosystem of cyber espionage that systematically compromised government, business, academic and other computer networks in India and other several nations. Detailed analysis of report […]

Facebook Antivirus and wall spams

Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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Social networking sites are often targeted by Cyber criminals in the rising Web 2.0 Internet world. Recently with the completion of its 6th anniversary Facebook has reached mark of 400 million users. No doubt it is becoming soft target as it is easier to get huge online users community. Some Facebook applications use different innovative […]

New variant of Sality

Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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Another new variant of Sality was reported on Saturday. As was the case with previous versions of Sality (like Sailty.R), this one is also a polymorphic EPO virus which replaces the entry point code of the original file. The main virus body is attached at the end of original file and the section header is […]

Windows 7 most praised security features got compromised at Pwn2Own

Sanjay Katkar / 16 years
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The most talked about hacking contest Pwn2Own ended with bad news for Microsoft. The hackers were finally able to make their way and disable the Windows 7 data execution prevention (DEP) and address space layout randomization (ASLR). These two were the most highly praised security features of Windows 7. Security researchers Peter Vreugdenhil from Netherlands […]