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 [...]

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

HBGary, a California security company that is at the center of a controversy over a plan to discredit WikiLeaks and its supporters abruptly pulled out of the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, citing security concerns. The company’s subsidiary, HBGary Federal, also cancelled a talk it had planned to give on the Internet [...]

Shim is a term used to describe an application compatibility workaround. Microsoft’s workaround used the Application Compatibility Toolkit to modify the core library of IE — a DLL, or Dynamic-Link library, named “Mshtml.dll,” that contains the rendering engine — in memory each time IE runs. The modification prevents recursive loading of a CSS, which effectively [...]

With Cloud Computing picking up pace and super computing services available for few $’s, it will soon be possible to carry out sophisticated attacks which were not practically possible or otherwise. In a classic example a German Security Researcher has created a tool to bruteforce Wi-Fi pass-phrases with the help of Amazon’s EC2 Super Computing [...]

Few days back ClubHack started an anonymous survey of favorite password manager via twitter & facebook. Check the survey @ http://j.mp/PassMgr Here is first cut report of the same As expected the most favorite password manager is “Brain” but beyond that LastPass is winning the race in products. There were some interesting entries in the [...]

As per the article in Times of India, the threat of hacking into airplane’s computer systems thus leading to virtual hijacking cannot be neglected. This mean could be used by terrorists & anti social elements to conduct virtual hijacking instead of classical physical attacks.

Are you one of those who love to play wargames in cyber security Check out http://www.securityoverflow.net SecurityOverflow allows anyone to implement and practice various penetration testing techniques in a legally safe environment. The lab simulates a “live network” which contains many hosts with several vulnerabilities. It is designed to serve as an educational exercise to [...]

Minister of State for Telecom and IT Sachin Pilot said: “Intelligence agencies recently issued a warning against large scale cyber attacks by Pakistani hacker groups from March 31, 2010, to April 6, 2010, targeting websites of Indian organizations.” CERT-In has issued advisories to PSU’s, Government Organizations and leading Private sector organizations. Source: http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/news_launches/2010/110082703.asp

Google on 20th Sept’2010 added a two-factor authentication mechanism to the login procedure for its Google Apps offerings, hoping that the addition will help cut down on the amount of fraudulent activity on these accounts. Google’s system doesn’t require a physical keycard. Instead, it relies on our mobile phone. Firstly, we need to activate the [...]