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 [...]
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 [...]
c0c0n, previously known as Cyber Safe, is an annual event conducted as part of the International Information Security Day. Kochi City Police along with the Matriux Security Community is organizing a 2 day International Security and Hacking Conference titled c0c0n 2010, as part of Information Security Day 2010. Various technical, non-technical, legal and community events are organized as part of the program. c0c0n 2010 is scheduled on 05, 06 Aug 2010.
Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor in short COFEE designed for and developed by a former Hong Kong police officer who is a senior investigator in Microsoft’s Internet Safety Enforcement Team. COFEE is only available for Law enforcement agencies whole over the world for free. Microsoft is providing a free technical support for COFEE. Easiness in use, faster result and automation makes this tool outstanding. An officer with no expertise can run this tool and gather information while the cybercrime investigation. [...]
One more free service from Symantec for a safer internet browsing Norton DNS. It offers Protection and faster internet surfing experience for any Internet connected device We already know that there are services OpenDns and Google Public DNS are available in market but what makes this NortonDNS special? The Symantec spokesperson explained “The Norton DNS service works by filtering the DNS requests that are automatically created when you visit a Web page to determine if they are associated with fraud, [...]
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