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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today I received an unusual email which was supposedly sent by “Indian Income Tax Department” indicating that I am eligible to receive a tax refund of Rs. 820.50. Below is the image giving idea about how the email looked like. This reminded me of fake Income Tax Refund website that had made the rounds in […]
The security update fixes six memory corruption vulnerabilities and issues in handling of URL validations. It is also believed that MS has also included patch in same update for a flaw used by attackers targeting Google and other major corporations recently. In past few weeks there has been increase in attacks using the vulnerability by […]