Yesterday a friend of mine forwarded me a mail he thought to be a phishing email. The email was indeed a phishing email. It was a Indian Income Tax phishing scam that is still going on as the phishers are still actively sending emails to millions of email addresses supposedly belonging to Indians. I had […]
Today I got 4 Bank of India phishing emails. As I had written a blog earlier the phishing attack on Bank of India is getting repeated every few days. Out of the 4 phishing attack emails that I received 3 were in English language but the fourth email was in local language Hindi. This is […]
As Abhijit Kulkarni yesterday blogged about the .HLP vulnerability in Windows XP. See details below in his blog. I observed that Microsoft has rated this vulnerability as “Medium risk” as it needs user intervention. We are monitoring for any malicious exploit of this vulnerability being made by any malware. I see no reason why this […]
I came across multiple emails in my inbox which were talking about my Paypal account being blocked. The mails had a subject line as “Your Papal account is suspended”. I immediately sensed it as phishing email. As earlier I had received emails indicating about payments that I made using Paypal which were phishing emails and […]
One has to be very careful when using search engine for looking for information or news on the latest hot topics. There are more chances of getting malware infection after visiting the websites listed in the results. Malware authors are creating more and more webpages which are loaded with newly created malwares, fake softwares, roguewares. […]
Since couple of weeks back Microsoft has been working on secret Operation B49 to wipe out Waledac botnet. Waledac is one of the largest botnets active and having major presence in US and European countries. This botnet is believed to be actively sending spam messages and had capacity to send billions of spam mails per […]
Google recently launched Google Buzz had to roll back the automatic implementation of the service to its users after strong protest from its users. Google Buzz is nice add on service to all GMail users that helps add social features to their account. Buzz tries to make the social interaction of its users more live […]
The MITRE Corporation has come out with 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors. They have presented the data in such a neat fashion which is quite helpful for all the developer community. So you may be a developer, tester, designer, teacher or system administrator. There are lot of things one can learn out […]
Adobe software is second only to Microsoft when it comes to number of exploits used in targeted hacker attacks. Last week Adobe published a fix for Flash that addresses a critical vulnerability in Flash. We advise all our users to upgrade to new version of Flash Player. It is also expected that Adobe will release […]
Christopher Tarnovsky, a researcher at Flylogic Engineering made it possible to hack TPM which was considered as most secure. TPM – Trusted Platform Module chips which are considered as hardware based industry standard securing chip designed by Trusted Computing Group is being used my many vendors for storing encryption keys and implementing security and is […]
