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US looks to ban Huawei and ZTE for cyberespionage, India waits in anticipation

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Many people in India are unaware about Huawei and its large number of products that are sold here. These range from simple wireless modems to advanced networking equipment utilized by industries and other hardware manufacturers. Most of the USB dongles that are sold in the country also come from the Chinese brand Huawei, or its […]

Microsoft disrupts major botnet by blocking malicious domain

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Microsoft recently won a court order to host “3322.org”, a nefarious Internet domain based in China, with its own dynamic DNS. The malicious domain hosts around 70,000 malicious subdomains and generates close to 500 different strains of malware that are distributed via counterfeit software. One of the most infamous botnets to originate from this source […]

Round-up of Security news updates from the last week

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 14 years
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IMs reach third-party contacts thanks to Skype bug A mysterious Skype bug sent messages (IMs) exchanged between two users, to random third-parties on either users’ list. Skype claims this occurred due to old versions of their app crashing on several platforms. This resulted in a lot of bad publicity for the service that was once […]

Infographic: Quick Heal’s DNAScan Technology

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 14 years
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As the proliferation of the Internet and the use and abuse of Web 2.0 increases, computer users are exposed to zero-day threats and risks that propagate in real-time. Any access to the Internet without protection is no doubt clogged with spyware, adware and dangerous bots. It doesn’t stop at this, the situation gets trickier even […]

Microsoft Kills Off a Botnet!

  • Vishal Dodke / 14 years
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In the battle against Internet Scammers, Microsoft opened a new front using the power of a U.S. court to deal a knockout blow to an emerging botnet and taking a provider of free Internet domains offline. Microsoft got the order from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, telling top-level […]

How hackers hijack your Facebook photos

  • Ranjeet Menon / 14 years
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Think twice before uploading your holiday pictures to Facebook – you could be helping someone steal information from your computer. A botnet called Stegobot was created by an Indian origin scientist to show how easy it would be for a bad guy to hijack Facebook photos to create a secret communication channel that is very […]

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