We are very much used to connect a new trendy gadget to our laptop to explore its features and configure etc. Many gadgets has memory card or storage in it to support lot of features like digital camera, music players video players, Mobile phones. All of these when connected to PC are showed as storage […]
Yesterday I received a suspicious email with a attachment. The mail had subject line as: Thank you for buying iTunes Gift Certificate! I am a iPhone user and do have my account at Apple Store. Initially a thought came in my mind like whether somebody had hacked into my Apple Store account and done a […]
The recently released Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 8 which highlights the statistics for last year shows that Indian PCs has more than 30% infection by Trojans and Trojan Downloaders together on all the infected computers in 2nd half of 2009. The spyware infection is surprisingly very low. Below is the summary page. For more […]
Last week I had written a blog (see “Disguised PDF attack possible”) about possible attack using simple technique in Adobe Reader. It is being observed now that malware writers of Zeus malware are using the “/launch” command line parameter in Adobe Reader to launch a malicious code without exploiting an vulnerability in the software. The […]
A design flaw in Adobe’s popular PDF format which was published by Didier Stevens in first week of April can be used by hackers to install malwares on users’s computers. Its a policy flaw and not a security vulnerablity in Adobe Reader that could cause this. Researcher demonstrated this attack using the PDF specification’s “/Launch” […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recently I was going through the twitter web site for just checking on tweets on Ricky Martin news. Of course with a thought that it being a hot topic of yesterday there can be someone using this news as a means to attract a potential victim to their web site. I was right as I […]
Being in computer security industry for years I am seeing lot of cyber criminals activities day in and out. These activities are increasing exponentially in numbers. A growing threat by international cyber criminal organization has accelerated this situation. Daily the threats targeting Indian citizens, online commerce, enterprise networks and financial systems are increasing. Nothing prominently […]
Recent conviction of Peter Chapman for the murder of 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall where use of Facebook was prominent to lure the victim. Many such incidents which keep on happening every few weeks where there is use of technology like social networking websites makes us think as to something should be done to stop this. This […]
