It has been observed that cyber criminals are targeting innocent elderly people at home. The scam works by criminals posing as computer security engineer who is actively calling people at home. The scammer indicates on phone that their computer is at risk from Internet threats and they are computer security personnel calling them to fix […]
Often times News channels compete to grab opportunity to show Breaking News. Ironically, few hours back @foxnewspolitics Twitter account is hacked. Hacker is using this account to post haox that US President Obama is assassinated. They have more than 34 thousand followers on this famous Social Networking site. Foxnews has confirmed about the hack on […]
A research study done among Australian parents and commissioned by Telstra revealed that social networking websites are affecting their kids’ health and well being and making them dumber. The research pointed out that 65% of the parents believe that their kids spend more time on social networking websites which distracts them from their homework. For […]
If only you could have a little robot – the perfect accomplice that fits neatly into your pocket and gets rid of bugs and what’s more works at lightning speed! Now, imagine if that accomplice sleekly enters your Android and protects, blocks and provides the perfect set of handcuffs to lock your device against theft. […]
Microsoft has released 16 security bulletins to address publicly disclosed 34 vulnerabilities,nine of which are rated Critical, and seven of which are rated Important. This is the second largest bulletin released by Microsoft in 2011 covering 16 bulletins. Fixes includes patches for OLE, DFS, SMB Client, Internet Explorer, Threat Management Gateway client firewall, .NET, Silverlight, […]
A hacker group going by the name Anonymous which is quite famous has threaten to attack the Malaysian Government website www.malaysia.gov.my on 15th June. The group posted the threat in the form of graphic which appeared as follows. The image was posted on https://i.imgur.com/PTFWh.png The group stated that it will launch the attack at 7:30 […]
E-SET Antivirus 2011 is a fake computer security program distributed throughout the web through several sites. Formulated to mimic the design and functionality of legitimate security programs. When E-Set Antivirus 2011 is installed it will be configured to start automatically when Windows starts. Once started it will perform a scan on your computer and when […]
We have analyzed below malicious email. As usual it pretends to be from DHL Inc. As we can see this email has a zip file attachment which contains a malware. On extraction of this zip file user gets an executable file which has icon like a pdf file. If this file gets executed it runs […]
It has been observed that the Zeus recent new variant has started to target LinkedIn members again. It was observed that the same malware Zeus had spam fake LinkedIn connection request to thousands of LinkedIn members during September last year. LinkedIn is a most popular business networking site with more than 90 million members and […]
Microsoft demonstrated the next version of Windows this week, and the operating system has an interface almost nobody expected or predicted. The default interface for Windows 8 will look almost nothing like Windows 7, but will look and feel like Microsoft’s cell-phone operating system, Windows Phone 7. Windows 8” is optimized for newer touch-centric hardware, […]