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 [...]
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 [...]
Twitter Got Defaced By Iranian Cyber Army
Another bad day for Twitter? News spread across the Internet that earlier people woke up to Twitter and couldn’t use the website. Instead of anything, people saw Twitter website got defaced by hackers who called themselves “Iranian Cyber Army.” Here is a screenshot that can be found on BusinessInsider as proof. We all know how [...]
Windows 7 And NSA To Enhance Security Or Is It?
As for not being open source like Linux, Windows 7 is having a hard time in explaining why it has NSA’s adepts tuning its security mechanism. NSA is National Security Agency and is a part of United States Department of Defense. NSA is responsible for securities of involvements in various fields included technology. [...]
Hackers Beat ATMs Encryption Cash $9 Million In 12 Hours
Within 12 hours, 8 men were able to rob about $9 million from ATMs. Men were caught for their carelessness of not covering up their tracks on card-processing network. Nonetheless, these men were able to bypass the encryption that the ATMs used, and so they were able to cash out millions of dollars. 8 men [...]
Beware Social Network
Social network is big and popular now a day. People flock to FaceBook, Twitter, Digg, Flickr, and many others in millions. The usages of social network are mainly for engaging strangers in various topics, online activities, and even personal activities; real friends can also keep in touch and allow online conversations to prosper through the [...]
Doubling 2008, 2009 Bad Links Out To Do Harm
Doubling the amount of bad links from 2008, 2009 has turned out to be very dangerous for web surfers. Hackers post gossips about famous celebrities, and have you click on bad links that may install malicious viruses and worms onto your computer without you knowing it. Searching for famous celebrities’s wallpapers and screensavers and so [...]
Social Engineering
Social engineering is one of the ways that hackers can steal highly sensitive information such as passwords, usernames, and everything else about the targets that hackers are after. Social engineering is not the same as guessing a password using a customize programming script that the hackers programmed, but it’s rather about how the hackers trick [...]
Cyber Threats And Why You Should Care
Cyber attacks are more common than you think. Normal people saw their personal information got stolen, and the government spent millions of dollars to thwart cyber attacks from foreign countries. Recently, many fingers are pointing to China for cyber attacks. Dalai Lama’s office had computers that were hacked and compromised by unknown hacker group, and [...]
