Monthly Archives: December 2011

Wi-Fi protected setup vulnerable to brute force attack

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Prashant

Security researcher Stefan has published a paper describing a vulnerability in WPS that allows attackers to recover WPA/WPA2 keys in a matter of hours. While working on it, he noticed things which enable an efficient brute force attack, thus effectively … Continue reading →

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2011: The year of hacktivist and botnets

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Prashant

We are just about to finish with an year now. Looking back into the year from security perspective, the year proved to be a hefty one with hacktivism flowing in in the cyber space. The information security arena saw rapid … Continue reading →

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PHP, ASP.NET, Java, Python and Ruby Vulnerable to DoS Attacks

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Prashant

Security researchers Julian Wälde and Alexander Klink showed how a common flaw in the implementation of the most popular web programming languages and applications can be used to force servers to use their CPU at full capacity for several minutes, … Continue reading →

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Indian shopping scene: How safe is your online shopping?

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Prashant

Online shopping has always been on a boom due to various and popular schemes by sellers. Online market enhanced in the mid of 2000 and is now ruling the market at the top now. Security issues with online shopping has … Continue reading →

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