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 […]
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 […]
There seems to be a problem with Windows Live Messenger being abused to send spam messages, sometimes called SPIM. I have been noticing recently is that my hotmail mail box contains 1 mail from “Windows Live” having subject line as “A private message from [Your friend] on Windows Live” Usually these kind of attack are […]
If your system has restarted after applying the MS10-015, this might be a sign that your system is infected with the notorious W32.Alureon malware. It is one of complex and advanced piece of malware which is been in existence for quite sometime now. Some of the function it is loaded with are modification of DNS […]
A new wave of the phish mail of Income tax department (Govt. of India) earlier blogged by Sanjay here, have been seen in our radar from today morning. Just started to see mails targeting Bank of India too. We have released update to protect all our user.
Yesterday Microsoft released the February bulletin. This month they plan to release 13 bulletin, five rated Critical, seven rated Important, and one rated Moderate – addressing 26 vulnerabilities. Eleven of the bulletins affect Windows and the remaining two affect Office. The recently published Advisory 980088, “Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Information Disclosure” fix is […]
Core Security Technologies published the details of vulnerability (advisory ID CORE-2009-0625) what could be called as one of the critical vulnerability. The vulnerability can get exploited by cyber criminals to infect users computers visiting the specially crafted web pages. Core Security has reported the vulnerability to Microsoft since more than 8 months now and finally […]
Apple iPad Lots of people are eager to have their hands on just announced iPad by Apple. Even though the official release is months ahead many individuals as well as enterprises too are thinking of the best use they can make of iPad. At the same time it is also been observed that people are […]
Last weekend I had come across the news of Sony Playstation 3 just got hack. I was not sure until I found this piece of message and later the official news release on BBC’s website. https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8478764.stm Now users can load and play anything on to their Sony PS3 claims the hacker George Hotz aka geohot. […]
A new stream of phishing emails aimed at user using Google Adwords have been noticed. The ongoing practice of phishing for personal information, especially financial details like credit card numbers makes this kind of crime low risk with high gain for the criminals. Phish mail Google’s online advertising brings a high level of attention from […]
