Security
A Report Accuses Facebook Founder Of Hacking
Here is another surprise for you today, founder of Facebook has been accused for hacking some people in the pasts to make his social network portal Facebook as popular as today. Yes, Mark Zuckerberg is being accused for using the black art known as hacking to hack into email accounts of Journalist of Harvard College [...]
DHCP Exhaustion & DNS Man In The Middle Attacks
Don’t take my words for this, but you need to watch this video to see how dangerous it’s for you to surfing the web, taking care important stuffs such as online banking, and doing all of those urgent things over the wireless connection (safer at home but not hacker proof) through the public Wi-Fi (Internet [...]
Kneber Botnet Exposed, Not Enough Security Solutions?
Security reports are rarely made headlines since people do not care unless they themselves are having the problems. In a way, it’s doesn’t matter if you and I care about security or not, since our current premium security software from well known security vendors aren’t equipped to deal with the real sophisticated threats. Not to [...]
Stay Safe In Public Spots When You’re On A Computer/Laptop
Today post is a friendly reminder on how to play safe as you hop from one public location to another using the Internet. Recently, I have a friend who told me that he used a public computer, using his passwords to check his various accounts from different web services. I was shocked and gave him [...]
In Complying With The Law, Google’s System Was Insecure To Hackers
Bruce Schneier from CNN wrote an article on how Google was compromised by Chinese hackers, and he mentioned that for being complying to the law Google had built a backdoor to aid the US government in gaining access to users’ accounts easier — the Chinese hackers used this backdoor to hack Google’s users accounts. In [...]
Targeted Attack (Security)
Here is a nice little video from F-Secure which talks about how targeted attack works. We all familiar with random attacks like a massive spam of a trojan spoofed email, but targeted attack is much stealthier — not many people could easily detect a targeted attack. In a targeted attack, the responsible person for such [...]
Facebook And McAFee Work Together To Provide Free Antivirus Software For Six Month Trial
Facebook is wisely teaming up with McAFee to provide six month free of antivirus software. After six months, users get to choose to pay for a subscription at a discount price or do nothing about it. Users who do not yet have an antivirus software on the computer and are already infected with viruses, when [...]
A Score For The Good Guys, Mega-D Is Ineffective
Sometimes the good guys had to be on the offensive! Couple IT professionals and researchers from security firms are fighting bad guys with everything they got and knew of, and they had a run when they did that the last time. They took a botnet known as Mega-D down by isolating the botnet’s zombies and [...]
Norton 2010 Review
Norton 2010 is the newest installment for Norton’s Internet Security Suite. PCMag has a review on this bad boy too. PCMag makes Norton 2010 as their Editors’ Choice. I have to agree with PCMag that Norton 2010 is impressive. Norton 2010 has crazy amount of features that you can play with to secure your computer. [...]
A Billionth Spam Message Milestone For Honey Pot
Spam messages in your email’s Inbox are suck, everyone knows that! This is why there is an organization known as Unspam Technologies that has been collecting spam messages, sometimes tracks down the spammers to turn over to law enforcers, and produces many fun statistics relate to spams that went around the world. They called the [...]
