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An interesting article from Ehacking News: India will soon have National Cyber security Policy that will ensure appropriate measures to tackle cyber crime and cyber attacks, Indian Government officials said. "We are working on a cyber security policy. We need more work to curb cyber crimes," SiliconIndia News quoted Minister for Communications and Information […]
Google patches 'loophole' in two-factor verification system
An Interesting article in NBC News technology security section: A security firm found it could bypass Google's two-step login verification process, reset a user's master password and gain full control of the account "simply by capturing a user's application-specific password." Application-specific passwords are passwords generated by Google that you can opt to use instead of […]
White House Cracks Down On Cyberespionage
An interesting article form Dark reading in there advanced-threats sections on Cyberespionage: The Obama administration is turning up the heat on nation-state cyberespionage attackers: A new policy aimed at protecting the U.S. government and businesses from theft of their intellectual property goes further than previous administrations in addressing the worst-kept secret that cyberspies are stealing […]
Google says it is winning the war against Gmail account hijackers
An interesting article on Naked Security: It was 2011, and if you were a Gmail user you might have found things had begun to turn ugly. Spam messages, spear-phishing attacks, and bogus "I'm stranded in a foreign country" scams, began to appear in some users' inboxes, defeating Google's anti-spam systems. To read more about this click […]
Oxford University blocks Google Docs because of phishing attacks.. for 2.5 hours
An article on phishing in google doc's from Naked security: Earlier this week it was being widely reported that Oxford University had taken the drastic step of completely blocking Google Docs, after it had seen a dramatic increase in the number of phishing attacks exploiting the service, targeting staff and students. What wasn't so widely […]
Spearphishing: The dirty email trick favored by the nastiest hackers
Interesting article in NBC NEWS technology section: A new report says that the Chinese military is secretly obtaining sensitive data from U.S. companies. A key technique is "spearphishing," an approach that tricks a targeted individual to reveal information that can be used to infiltrate the company or government agency that person works for. Security companies […]
A List of Top WordPress Security Plugins by EUKHOST.com
The ratio of websites running on CMS’s can be assumed to be more than the custom designed sites built from scratch. Quite understandably, there are more number of users using WordPress than any other CMS, hence it becomes crucial to have enhanced security measures for your site. Due to a large volume of users using WordPress as a platform, an increasing number of hackers and fraudsters try to compromise the security of such sites. In majority of the instances sites running on WordPress are compromised due to outdated files and/or plug-ins. Such outdated versions of the associated scripts act as an easy meal for fraudsters.
Google Releases Chrome 16.0.912.77
US-Cert has just distributed a notification about the release of Chrome 16.0.912.77 for Linux, Mac, Windows, and Chrome Frame to address multiple vulnerabilities.
The vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or
cause a denial-of-service condition.
Scammers waste no time in exploiting Steve Jobs' death
As much of the world mourns the passing of Steve Jobs -- one of the technology industry's greatest visionaries -- the bottom feeders of the cyber crime world are greedily exploiting the tragedy through scams promising unwitting users a chance to win a free iPad.
Sophos has reported in its Naked Security blog on one such scam already circulating via Facebook that reads as follows: "In memory of Steve, a company is giving out 50 ipads tonight. R.I.P. Steve Jobs," followed by a tailored bit.ly link ending with "restinpeace-steve-jobs." Clicking the link takes users to one of countless malicious Web pages.
PBS Website Hacked: States Rapper Tupac Shakur is Alive
A Hacker group known as “The Lulz Boat” hacked the PBS website on Sunday and posted a false story claiming the rapper Tupac Shakur who has been dead for 15 years is actually alive and living in New Zealand.