23 year old Mariposa Malware author arrested in Slovenia .He developed the Malware code that allowed the three alleged Spanish Mariposa Botnet herders to infect some 13 million personal, corporate, bank and government computers in more than 190 countries. The arrest is the result of a massive investigation that included the FBI, Spanish authorities, the Slovenian Criminal police, and the Mariposa working group (comprising the Georgia Tech Information Security Center, Defense Intelligence, Panda Security, and other international security experts). According [...]
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Barracuda security labs have conducted study across Bing,Google,Twitter and yahoo and yet another reveals shocking news. They conducted a 2 month study over these search engines; the analysis reviews more than 25,000 trending topics and nearly 5.5 million search results. The purpose of the study was to analyze trending topics on popular search engines to understand the scope of the problem and to identify the types of topics used by malware distributors. Results included: Google tops when when it comes [...]
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Another shocking news on air! Personal Information and Facebook pages of 100 million users are there for download on torrent site, courtesy of hacker Ron Bowes of Skull Security. These are result of Facebooks privacy scrutinized when we create pages with as open access directory and which can be viewed by simple search on search engines. But, there is no doubt that having them all in one place will be a godsend to anyone bent on data mining. User names [...]
Introducing 4 major industry standard security device’s Live Demo. Live demo means you can access the real products from their portal with all the features enabled on it. Who will get benefit with this? Existing customers or new customers to try a new device, Resellers, Network Engineers and general public. SonicWALL is a Private company headquartered in San Jose, CA. The company was founded in 1991 under the name “Sonic Systems” by brothers Sreekanth and Sudhakar Ravi to develop Ethernet [...]
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Safari is the web browser from the giants Apple. It’s really unfortunate that this comes from them but it’s the real fact. Auto fills functionality and Vulnerability- Auto fills means a technique by which website stores your personal details and many more in them so that next time when you fill this automatically fills the field which makes us more easy and make us more lazy J.The fact remains that lot of us use this and when threat strikes here [...]
AVG research team has found out Eleonore Toolkit has infected more than 1.2 million PC users. These infected computers are monitored by Cyber criminals to exploit the Computer resources and to monitor the compromised PC. Avg research team did a 2 month long research on 165 Eleonore toolkit which is used by Cyber bad guys and the result was shocking .They could infect a 10 percent of proportion of the 10 million domains. The attack strategy was simple ,Users were [...]
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Family Shield is another free content filtering feature from OpenDNS. It is just like the OpenDNS basic plan but with minimal dashboard features which suits very well for home use. Family Shield provides safe and filtered browsing for your kids and family instantly. The highlighted features of Family Shield are: 1. Blocking Adult websites. 2. Blocking proxy or anonymizer websites which commonly used by savvy kids. 3. Blocking phishing websites. 4. Blocking Malware websites. 5. When you setup the service [...]
