Monthly Archives: March 2012

Multiple vulnerabilities on US Army Corps of Engineers site

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Prashant

Web application popularity is at a peak these days. Almost every big or small firms, government and educational organizations, etc have global presence as well as reach in the cyber space using it. And as always, as common everywhere! Security … Continue reading →

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Blackberry devices vulnerable to jailbreak attacks

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Prashant

Blackberry has been the top choice of business professionals around the world when it comes to choosing a smart deal for their mobile communications and business uses. Today in a blog by Mr Adrian Stone, head of the BlackBerry Security … Continue reading →

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Finally, Duqu mystery solved!

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Prashant

Duqu, the so called successor of Stuxnet was noticed by Kaspersky researcher and was found to be a unique one so far. It had already created a lot of mystery on the programming language its based on. The Kasper Lab … Continue reading →

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Microsoft RDP exploit code leaked

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Prashant

Microsoft patch process was once again beaten up as the exploit code for the vulnerability lying in the RDP (remote desktop) was leaked as confirmed by a source on twitter. According to a bulletin (CVE-2012-0002) released by Microsoft, a remote … Continue reading →

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Tibetian organizations becoming victims of malware attack

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Prashant

The memories of “Shadow in the cloud” cyber espionage reminds us of how information and cyber warfare intense with the use of exploits, malwares and trojans. Organized attack and their stealth nature has always made it impossible to detect and … Continue reading →

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Leaked Norton source code confirmed to be genuine

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Prashant

The cyber war as discussed by us earlier, continues. This time the target was not a governing body, neither an electronic or media firm. The security giant Symantec is the new target. Famous hacktivist group Anonymous have leaked source code … Continue reading →

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Anonymous Lulzsec, civil armies in the cyber space?

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Prashant

Traditional warfare seems to be disappearing now. Virtual world i.e. the cyber space is the new battle ground and exploitation and hacking attack new weapons. We have been closely analyzing underground groups and monitoring their attacking methodologies and behaviour. The … Continue reading →

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After Stuxnet, its Duqu now!

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Prashant

Artificial intelligence in the form of worms and malwares is the latest weapon in the cyber warfare. Few times back, we had seen how stuxnet had created havoc in Iran by affecting SCADA systems and damaging the nuclear program. Duqu … Continue reading →

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GitHub hacked by fellow member

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Prashant

GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. GitHub offers both commercial plans and free accounts for open source projects.According to a news published at ZDNet, GitHub was hacked yesterday by … Continue reading →

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