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 [...]
Archive for July, 2010
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 [...]
Categories: Security
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 [...]
Categories: Security, Social Media
1) Clear the BlackBerry Logs Every Action on your BlackBerry is logged which in time will slow down your BlackBerry. So at least once a week you need to clear the logs. While on the home screen hold ALT key and press LGLG. You will see the logs. Then Click on the BlackBerry Menu Button and select “Clear Log” this keeps phone moving faster than before. 2) Clearing Web Browser Cache You can make a dramatic increase in the speed [...]
Categories: Smartphones, Tips
Ever encountered a situation were your iTunes stop responding when you try to launch it? Finally iTunes will display some error code along with a link to apple’s knowledge base. Believe me it never worked. If you reinstall also it may not work. The iTunes package is a huge package with services and supported tools such as QuickTime, Apple Software Update, Apple Mobile Device Support, Bonjour IPod service and Apple Application support. It’s a tedious job to remove each and [...]
Categories: Apps
Download and convert web videos using Download Helper. A Firefox add-on which does many things other than just extracting the web videos. Using this add-on you can download videos from Youtube, Myspace, Google Videos, DailyMotion, Porkolt, iFilm, DreamHost and many more. The add-on’s inbuilt converter can convert the web videos to WMV, MPEG, iPod, iPhone, Mobile 2GP, Zune, Mov, AVI, MP3 etc. By default the video will download it to MP4 format. Other features are, providing a secure storage for [...]
Categories: Apps
Why Dropbox can be called as a replacement for USB Drive? The ease of use! no hassle of carrying number of Usb drives! also the application is designed for a non-technical person!. Using the Cloud computing technology Dropbox can be used to backup and share your data, Syncing between multiple devices in Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Dropbox is available for Smartphones such as IPhone, IPad, Windows Phones, Blackberry and Android. Dropbox offers 2GB free account and premium accounts with storage capacity [...]
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