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Critical vulnerability reported in most of the versions of Internet Explorer.

Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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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 […]

IPad raises security concerns in enterprise use.

Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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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 […]

PS3 just got hacked: courtesy geohot

Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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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. […]

Google AdWords being targeted by Phishers

Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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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 […]

Indian Income Tax Department Phishing Site

Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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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 […]

Microsoft releases out-of-band update for IE vulnerabilities

Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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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 […]

Security Patch released for BIND 9.6.1

Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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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

Cyber Attacks adding up to the already disturbing relations of India & China

Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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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 […]

Buffer overflow in QuickTime

Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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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.

Cybercriminals have started targeting Haiti Donations

Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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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 […]

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