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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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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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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 [...]

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All Defcon & Blackhat presentations and videos in one place

This spreadsheet has been making its rounds online and contains details of DEFCON & Black Hat presentations along with authors, youtube links, links to presentations etc. Many Thanks to Javier Bassi

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India to work with US on Data.gov and against cyber-crime

An MoU has been signed by Deputy Secretary for the US Department of Homeland Security, Jane Holl Lute and R Chandrashekhar, secretary for India’s Department of Information Technology for working together on cyber crime and data consolidation. As part of the MoU, the following agencies will be working together along with the cyber security communities: Indian Computer Emergency Response [...]

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Patchy Tuesday

As Microsoft April Advance Security Bulletin Today Microsoft will be pushing huge updates and patches for multiple vulnerabilities across different versions of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and Developer tools like .NET etc Total of 64 vulnerabilities will be fixed across 17 bulletins from which 9 bulletins are rated as critical. So get ready to install [...]

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RSA SecureID Hacked

“Certain information being extracted from RSA’s systems”. Thats what RSA’s executive chairman Art Coviello admitted. There is a possiblity that encryption seed details related to RSA SecureID might have been compromised which would leave only the PIN as the confedential detail in case of commonly used 2 factor authentication tokens. Details – http://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn-uk/news/2035401/rsa-security-breach-sparks-reseller-concern

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Protect yourself from Online Scams exploiting Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

Since the massive earthquake (on 11th March 2011) and destructive tsunami hit Japan there has been a tsunami of online scams. Online scammers are exploiting users with fake videos, malware serving websites and with pleas for donations to make money from this tragedy. Few tips to avoid falling prey to such scams ———————————————— –> Don’t [...]

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IE6 Countdown

Last week Microsoft launched a deathwatch for its 10 year old Internet Explorer 6 browser to ensure that IE6 is “gone for good”. According to Microsoft, IE6 still has a 12% global usage share, with almost half of that in China with 5.9% usage. Other countries with a higher-than-average IE6 share include South Korea, India [...]

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Hard drive which can withstand gunshot

Sound interesting & weird right? ioSafe new rugged hard disk can withstand gunshots submersion in water (fresh/salt) fire needless to mention drops & mishandling Now that’s called as “data security’ Here’s a small video on “tests” it goes through Remember, you still need protection from cyber criminals & malicious users. You can try TrueCrypt for that