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National Security Database

ClubHack is part of the National Security Database which is being launched on 26th November, 10am at JW Marriott, Mumbai. Jointly developed by the Government of India and ISAC, a non-profit scientific foundation, the National Security Database (NSD) was conceived after the horrific 2008 Mumbai attacks as a proactive action to Identify the most credible [...]

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Hacks in last few days

It seems that hacking activity is on continuous rise. It appears that the guys in the wild do not take any break or rather there is no specific season for hacking; its 24×7 on all 365 days….. Amongst others, following are some of the recent hacking activities: Harvard University website hacked by Syria protesters 75 [...]

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IGI airport shutdown was due to cyber attack

Around 3 months back we heard a news of “technical snag” which caused chaos in T3 of IGI airpot delhi. The internal team was doing invetigation since then and now they have concluded that the “technical snag” was a cyber attack. Its is believed that its was a malicous script sent from remote As per Indian Express, CBI [...]

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Keylogger for Android

Computer scientists from UC Davis university have developed an Android app named TouchLogger that logs keystrokes using a smartphone’s sensors to measure the locations a user taps on the touch screen. Researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to log individual keystrokes entered on a smartphone’s on-screen keyboard using device’s built-in accelerometer (also known as the [...]

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Oracle released out of cycle patch for Apache “HTTP Killer” bug

Oracle issued an emergency patch to fix a denial of service(DoS) vulnerability in Oracle HTTP server products that are based on the Apache Web server 2.0 and 2.2. Attack Details —————– With this attack any exploiter can remotely send large chunk of data in the header without any authentication or requiring any username and password. [...]

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Book Release – BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner’s Guide

We are proud to announce the release of the First book by our friend Vivek Ramachandran, founder of http://securitytube.net The book is titled “BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner’s Guide” and is available @ amazon. The book is written with a lot of care and keeping beginners in mind and the writing style will help anyone [...]

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SecurityByte 2011

ClubHack is proud to announce partnership with SecurityByte2011 Securitybyte conference offers an exciting series of events that are highly relevant to today’s information security issues & concerns. Attending this event is one of the most cost-effective and time-efficient ways to stay on top of what’s current, enhance your information security skills and accelerate your success • Largest [...]

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Goof up in Chinese Military show exposes “cyberwar” activities

A chinese documentary on military activities by mistake exposed a lot which was not intended. Check out the video at 36s onwards. You’ll notice a nice UI (probably written in delphi) being used to launch attack against an IP. The large writing at the top says “Select Attack Target.” Next, the demonstrator choose an IP address to attack [...]

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China suffered half a million cyber attacks last year

As per china daily, last year china has suffered nothing less than 493000 cyber attacks. This was claimed in a report by the country’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center (CNCERT/CC) According to the report, 14.7% of the attacks came from US where as 8% came from Indian IPs. Hackers tampered with nearly [...]

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Patchy Tuesday: August 9

Microsoft has announced advance notification for 13 security bulletins to address 22 vulnerabilities in Windows XP/7/Vista/Server 2008, Office, Internet Explorer, .NET and Visual Studio for August 9, 2011. Two among 13 bulletins are rated as critical [highest severity] to prevent attacks related to remote code execution. Check the bulletin summary below Full version of Microsoft [...]