{"id":75030,"date":"2012-10-20T16:41:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T11:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/?p=75030"},"modified":"2012-10-20T16:41:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T11:11:27","slug":"latest-security-updates-from-the-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/latest-security-updates-from-the-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest security updates from the last week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Government plans for 5 lakh cyber warriors for e-defense<\/strong>
\nHaving recognized the need for defense against extensive cyber attacks, the Indian Government has started an initiative<\/a> to train 5 lakh ‘cyber warriors’ over the next 5 years. The training will include a centralized institute and access to extensive resources to achieve the same. <\/p>\n

Flaw in 3G technology allows device tracking<\/strong>
\nResearchers from the University of Birmingham and the Technical University of Berlin have found a serious flaw<\/a> in 3G networks that allows tracking of devices. This flaw is not restricted to a few devices only and can be used to exploit all devices that use 3G technology. <\/p>\n

Microsoft publicly states that Windows XP is highly vulnerable to malware<\/strong>
\nWe have previously highlighted<\/a> that Windows XP is more vulnerable to malware than other Windows based operating systems and now Microsoft has confirmed the same in a security intelligence report. They have claimed<\/a> that malware is twice as likely to affect XP than Vista or Windows 7. So maybe it is time to upgrade for people who are still using Windows XP. <\/p>\n

HSBC online services taken down by DDoS attack<\/strong>
\nHSBC was hit by an extensive denial of service attack that brought down<\/a> its servers all around the world. No customer data was breached during this attack but it did deny users access to various online services. A group affiliated to Anonymous have claimed responsibility for this attack. <\/p>\n

Reverse phone number lookup flaw discovered on Facebook<\/strong>
\nIt has recently been found that<\/a> Facebook users who have submitted their phone numbers on the website are vulnerable to public searches over the social network. This implies that if a marketer gets a list of phone numbers he can run a simple search and devise a list of profiles. Moreover, this is yet another instance of user privacy being abused over Facebook. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Government plans for 5 lakh cyber warriors for e-defense Having recognized the need for defense against extensive cyber attacks, the Indian Government has started an initiative to train 5 lakh ‘cyber warriors’ over the next 5 years. The training will include a centralized institute and access to extensive resources to achieve the same. Flaw in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[56,163,127,57,65,58,49,73,59,25,160,38,111],"class_list":["post-75030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-android-security","tag-cyber-crime","tag-ddos","tag-droid-defense","tag-facebook-privacy","tag-hacking","tag-malware","tag-microsoft-os","tag-mobile-devices","tag-phishing","tag-privacy","tag-vulnerability","tag-windows-xp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}