Bharath on April 9th, 2009

By now many of you might be aware that Conficker has infected millions of PC all around the world. Who knows your system also might have been affected.
Conficker test from the University of Bonn to know if your system is affected or not!
Affected don’t get panic it’s not gonna crash your system as it’s just a [...]

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Last week, when the Internet’s eighth largest domain registrar was slammed by a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack, customers of Register.com were left without service and, in some cases, answers. The DoS attack ultimately led to a 48-hour outage, and many customers quit the service citing a lack of communication from the company as a reason.
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Bharath on April 8th, 2009

Scammers are sending bogus email disguised as a Microsoft security alert, in a criminal attempt to trick users into purchasing a rogue scanner (aka scareware). The fraudulent email reads as follows:
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Starting April 1st 2009 the ‘Conficker’ virus started infecting Windows users very quickly. Microsoft was advised by your Internet provider that your system is showing [...]

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Bharath on October 23rd, 2007

Vijay Mukhi, President of the Foundation for Information Security and Technology says, “The terrorists know that if they use machines at home, they can be caught. Cybercafes therefore give them anonymity.”
“The police needs to install programs that will capture every key stroke at regular interval screen shots, which will be sent back to a server [...]

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Bharath on October 11th, 2007

There are no ethics in business anymore! Those who thought that MNCs in India would be more ethical are smoking pot! Here is an interesting and a distasteful hijacking of the domain by Vodafone of Airtel’s domain name. Type Airtel.com   and you will be directed to www.vodafone.es ! Domain Squatting in not uncommon but this [...]

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Bharath on September 27th, 2007

Hackers have posted personal information on 1,200 Ebay customers to an Ebay forum, dedicated, ironically, to fraud prevention. The information was up for around an hour this morning before Ebay shut the forum down and displayed email details, CVV2 numbers, telephone numbers, home addresses and possibly credit card details to visitors.Ebay says the information was [...]

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