Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
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Google’s China problem means good news for Bing
Earlier this month, Google created a huge commotion in the technology-world by announcing it was no longer interested in working with the Chinese government to censor search results. It also threatened that it would cease all operations in China after Chinese hackers breached Google accounts.
This seems definitely like a good time for Bing. Microsoft remained [...] -
TCS web site hijacked
TCS web site hacked
The website of India’s largest software firm, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) became disrupted for sometime as Network Solutions came under a cyber attack on Sunday. The company’s website was unavailable for over three hours and redirected to a “domain name for sale” page.
www.tcs.com displayed the message ‘this domain name is for sale’ [...] -
Chinese authorities bust “hacker school”
Chinese authorities bust “hacker school”
According to a new article published in China Daily, authorities have shut down the country’s biggest hacker training site. Three people have been arrested and assets to the value of ¥1.7m (£160,000) have been seized.
The Black Hawk Safety Net site was started in 2005, and had some 12,000 paid members who [...] -
Spyware removal tool for Mac
Spyware removal tool for Mac
MacScan is a good spyware removal tool for Mac. MacScan supports Firefox 3 and provides cookie cleaning. MacScan also guards against Mac-specific keyloggers and spyware-related trojans targeting the Mac OS.
The Macintosh computer is notoriously impervious to most viruses, spyware and adware that affects Windows. However, spyware and malware are being developed [...] -
ZoneAlarm Free Firewall–Secure your computer
ZoneAlarm is an easy to use and effective firewall application. It is very effective in maintaining security for your computer from a number of security threats. The application comes with a simple and straightforward wizard that allows you to configure the firewall. Configuring a firewall may be difficult, but this wizard makes it very simple.
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Amazon’s Kindle DRM Hacked
Israeli hacker breaks the copyright protections built in to Amazon’s Kindle for PC
Amazon’s Kindle’s DRM has been reverse engineered by an Israeli hacker. This would allow ebooks stored on the Kindle to be accessible through other devices. This should be a major concern for Amazon.
It all began as an open challenge on an Israeli forum [...] -
Twitter hacked by Iranian hackers!
Twitter hacked by Iranian hackers!
According to a news article on Information Week, popular social networking web site Twitter was pushed offline on Friday by hackers from Iran.
About the outage a Twitter agent wrote, "We are working to recover from an unplanned downtime and will update more as we learn the cause of this [...] -
Wikileaks publishes ‘9/11 messages’
Wikileaks has published 573,000 intercepted pager messages that were sent during the 9/11 attacks…
Wikileaks has stated that it will not reveal the source of the messages. Many of these messages were sent from federal agencies after the attacks.
Security experts are of the opinion that the messages are genuine. However, on the other hand, [...] -
Delta Air Lines Sued Over Email Hacking
Delta Air Lines is being sued for allegedly hacking and obtaining sensitive emails and files and using the material to derail the “Airline Passenger’s Bill of Rights of 2009″. Four versions of the bill are currently pending before Congress.
The suit was was by Kathleen Hanni, executive director of Flyersrights.org on last Tuesday in the US [...] -
Microsoft—Six Years of Bug Fixing
Microsoft’s latest security update on Tuesday marks the completion of the six years after the company decided to release security patches on a monthly basis. Microsoft moved to the monthly schedule in Oct 2003. Ever since then, Microsoft released around 400 security bulletins fixing around 745 vulnerabilities in its software.
Out of the 745 vulnerabilities, 230 [...]