Microsoft has released its security bulletin summary for April 2010. This month Microsoft has released 11 bulletins which comprises of 18 vulnerabilities that have been addressed. Out of the 11 bulletins five bulletins have been rated “Critical”, five bulletins have been rated “Important” and one bulletin has been rated “Moderate”. Eight bulletins are related to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Microsoft has released its security bulletin summary for March 2010. This month Microsoft has released two bulletins, both of them are rated Important. Total eight vulnerabilities have been addressed in this month. The first bulletin addresses a vulnerability of Windows Movie Maker available with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. This security update is […]
