Internet Systems Consortium announced the release of the BIND 9.6.1-P3 security patch to address two cache poisoning vulnerabilities, “both of which could allow a validating recursive nameserver to cache data which had not been authenticated or was invalid.” More details follow below links CVE-2010-0097 CVE-2009-4022v6
Recently Indian government official admitted that there was an attempt to attack and steal the information from offices of National Security Adviser through hacker attack. More details on this news announcement can be found at: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/China-tried-to-hack-Indias-computers-Narayanan/articleshow/5473640.cms The announcement was made only after looking at similar attack news in US of cyber attack on US defense […]
A remotely exploitable vulnerability in QuickTime has been discovered. Information on vulnerable version of QuickTime available on Bugtraq 32540 The vulnerability can be exploited by malformed .mov files. The latest version of QuickTime is not affected by this vulnerability.
As expected cybercriminals are taking advantage of those want to donate money for Haiti earthquake relief. We had already warned the readers to not to respond any unsolicited emails asking for quake relief fund in the message. It has been observed that Rouge application generators are doing SEO poisoning on popular search engine results. People […]
Small island of Haiti was devastated after it experience a major earthquake recently. Thousands of people have been killed and many left homeless. Our prayers are with the people of Haiti for faster recovery out of it. I would like to bring here the point that cybercriminals always make use of the latest happening news […]
After the holiday season is over and people resumed their office with new year work load ahead, it all started with phishing scam on one of the India’s popular nationalized bank. Since 8th January I had been observing that I had been receiving phishing emails targeting Punjab National Bank of India. The email looked as […]
New Google Android based mobiles phone are being released one by one and the trend of fraudulent android applications has started to surface.Among the several applications that were available on Android Market, it was observed that few moblie banking applications were providing the facility of just connecting the user to mobile banking website of the […]
Some user reported of receiving mail from BANK OF INDIA with subject line “BANK OF INDIA -Beware of fraudulent emails”. The Bank seem to be woken up by the recent surge to fraudulent emails targeting their users. The mail contains an attachment named “Take_Care_from_Phishing_emails.doc” which provides some Tips for safe and secure banking. If you […]
A new virus infects Delphi installations. Infected program searches for installed versions of Delphi and modifies SysConst.dcu in each of them; old version is saved as SysConst.bak. After infection all Delphi projects compiled on this computer start infecting Delphi at every computer they are launched on. Current detected as W32.Induc.A
Overview of the March 2009 Microsoft patches and their status. 1 critical and 2 important updates MS09-006 Multiple input validation vulnerabilities in the windows kernel allow random code execution though the GDI component (WMF and EMF files yet again), and privilege escalations that allow random code to be run in kernel mode. Replaces MS08-061. MS09-007 […]