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Will India go offensive in response to looming cyberwar threats?

  • Sanjay Katkar / 14 years
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Advancements in technology have brought the world closer together but have simultaneously opened up new fronts for global conflicts. Countries are increasingly adopting aggressive stances against critical networked systems that belong to other nations. Recent threats like Stuxnet, Duqu and Flamer have shown us the extent that such attacks can go to. This has led […]

Password Security: A dash of ‘salt’ and little of ‘hash’ to go please!

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 14 years
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Online services like LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm were recently hacked and millions of passwords were found on Russian hacker forums. This has led to a rise in public awareness about password securing procedures like ‘salting’ and ‘hashing’. Quick Heal users are protected from various real-time risks but attacks like this show that web services need […]

Is your LinkedIn account password hacked?

  • Sanjay Katkar / 14 years
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Professional networking website LinkedIn suffered a major security breach of its password database recently. Reportedly a file containing more than 6 million hashed passwords appeared in an online forum in Russia. Out of these 6 million hashed passwords, more than 200,000 passwords have been cracked so far. The file does not contain user names but […]

DNSChanger: Temporary servers to shut down on July 9th, infected machines to lose Internet access

  • Sanjay Katkar / 14 years
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According to recent reports, 330,000 machines all over the world are still infected with the DNSChanger malware. Machines infected with this malware beyond July 9th will be unable to access the Internet. Quick Heal users need not worry though, as they are protected against this threat. The malware signature is detected by Quick Heal and […]

Future Watch II: Rogue SSL certificates on the rise

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 14 years
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Continuing with our series of predicting potential security threats, this post delves into rogue SSL certificates. This attack vector allows phishers and social engineers to gain complete trust of their victims, the prospects of which are quite frightening. SSL (Secure Socket Layer) certificates are present on pages where a user needs to enter private data, […]

‘Flamer’ Lights Fire In Cyber Space

  • Rajesh Nikam / 14 years
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We would like to update our readers about the findings of Flamer, the recent information stealing malware which is making news in Cyber Space. Investigation shows that a few of the malicious Flamer components were reported in the Online Scanner portal around 2 years and 10 months ago (in August 2009). Shown below are the […]

New cyber espionage malware ‘Flamer’ is the most complex ever seen

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 14 years
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Our Malware Analysis team has discovered a highly complex malware (Trojan.Flamer.A) that is written using the ‘Lua’ programming language. This malware is on par, if not stronger, than previously seen similar threats, Stuxnet and Duqu. The Iranian CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) has many names for this worm – ‘Flame’, ‘Flamer’, ‘Skywiper’ or ‘Viper’. They […]

Anonymous readying to stage Occupy India protests across all major cities on 9 June

  • Sanjay Katkar / 14 years
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Anonymous, the faceless worldwide hacktivist group, is staging a series of protests in India on June 9 as part of the ‘Occupy India’ movement. These protests are in response to the blocking of popular file sharing websites like ‘The Pirate Bay’ and video sharing websites like ‘Vimeo’ by ISPs in the country (here is the […]

How to tell the difference between White-Hat, Grey-Hat and Black-Hat hackers

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 14 years
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In the last post on hacktivism, we briefly mentioned three different types of hackers – white-hat hackers, grey-hat hackers and black-hat hackers. This post will delve into these three and help you understand the categories better. A hacker, as we all know by now, is someone who utilizes his understanding of computers and software coding […]