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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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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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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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U.N. hit by biggest ever cyber attacks uncovered

Security experts from McAfee have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date. This one involves the infiltration of the networks of 72 organizations including the United Nations, governments and companies around the world. McAfee reported a five year long attack which affects # Govt of 1. US 2. India 3. Taiwan 4. South [...]

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TDL-4 botnet traps 4.5 million PC’s

Security researchers [Sergey Golovnoav & Igor Soumenkov] at Kaspersky Lab have posted a detailed analysis of new botnet called TDL-4 and calling it as –> the one that might just be “indestructible”. TDL-4 compared to previous versions is an updated algorithm encrypting the protocol used for communication between infected computers and botnet command and control [...]

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Sosasta attacked in a “sasta” way

Sosasta (Indian subsidiary of GrounOn) got compromised in a very easy & sasta(cheap) way. A simple Google query exposed there database of 3,00,000 usernames and password. God knows when people will understand basic security of hashing the password. This si being covered in OWASP TOP 10 from many years (See https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2010-Insecure_Cryptographic_Storage) Discovered by: Australian security [...]

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Sega Database Pwned, Account Information Compromised

Seems like all the attackers have started targeting games industry. After breaking into Sony(multiple times), Nintendo, Bethesda, Codemasters and Epic, this time they have infiltrated into SEGA. As per the mail sent out to sega customers Dear ___, As you may be aware, the SEGA Pass system has been offline since yesterday, Thursday 16 June. Over the last 24 hours [...]

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After PSN, hackers attack codemasters

Attack after attacks and this time its UK game developer Codemasters whose customer database has been compromised. As posted on company’s forum: Codemasters said hackers gained unauthorized entry to Codemasters.com on Friday, June 3. “As soon as the intrusion was detected, we immediately took codemasters.com and associated web services offline in order to prevent any [...]