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Website of IIM Bangalore Hacked!

It’s been almost a week that IIM Bangalore‘s official website was attacked by companies which sell viagra. The parent site http://www.iimb.ernet.in/ is back online now but the malicious content was seen in Google cache. This was reported on pluggdin too.

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Beware of Twilight Game Scam on Facebook

If you’ve been tagged in a friend’s photo album on Facebook or have seen a link promoting a Twilight: Breaking Dawn game, be careful. It is likely a scam designed to spread on Facebook and grab your personal data. After clicking on the link, you’ll be invited to start playing the game. For those who [...]

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Barracuda Networks suffers breach

California based Security Company, Barracuda Networks experienced a breach by a Malaysian group known as HMSec. Details of its raid, including database schemas, email addresses, and hashed passwords, after executing an SQL Injection attack on the Barracuda domain were also published by HMSec. “The Barracuda Web Application Firewall in front of the Barracuda Networks [...]

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Bruce Schneier and ClubHACK 2010 Event

Bruce Schneier, a cryptographer, computer security specialist, and author graced ClubHack2010 as a special guest and keynote speaker and releasing CHMag Dec Edition. He was received at airport by a volunteer who didn’t took his name placard rather the volunteer took a print of Bruce Lee’s Picture. He loved it. Bruce Schneier was welcomed at ClubHack2010 [...]

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Important Security Update for Version 3.0.4 of WordPress

It has been made available directly through the update page in one’s dashboard. One can also download it from here too. It is a very significant update to apply to our sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. As a security researcher, one [...]

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Beware :- ElcomSoft can break Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome passwords

Elcomsoft Internet Password Breaker can recover cached passwords accumulated in a variety of email clients and Web browsers. Features: Instant password recovery for a variety of applications Supports all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, including IE7 and IE8 Supports all versions of Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express Supports Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail passwords [...]

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Use BlackSheep to combat Firesheep

BlackSheep monitors traffic and then alerts users if Firesheep is being used on the network. This is achieved by dropping ‘fake’ session ID information on the wire and then monitoring traffic to see if it has been hijacked. More details :- http://www.zscaler.com/blacksheep.html

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Cyber war simulated by Europe

Neelie Kroes, European commissioner for the digital agenda, said the exercise was designed to test preparedness and was an “important first step towards working together to combat potential online threats to essential infrastructure”. More details :- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11696249

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Free Mac anti-virus for home users by Sophos

Sophos declared the accessibility of a free Mac anti-virus product for home users. Based on Sophos’s security software, Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition for Mac is accessible for consumers to download at no charge. Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition for Mac provides automatic detection against existing and new threats for Mac OS X. It also includes strong [...]

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US election search outcome poisoned by Rogue AV

Search combinations such as “2010 midterm election”, “midterm election results”, “midterm election latest polls”, “midterm election season” and “midterm election latest polls gallup” present search results that take prospective victims to a blank page. A closer look at the code reveals that the page contains a URL to a rogue AV site. For more details [...]