Author Archives: Prashant

Android malware said to be targeting Indian politicians

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Prashant
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Android as of now has gain popularity much more than desired by its creator! Anything that has popularity and relays on internet for major function, becomes an easy target for cyber crooks. Though security loopholes have been updated and brought … Continue reading →

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Beware! RBI lottery scam on the way

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Prashant
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One fine morning while doing routine work to analyze malicious mails and samples, I came across one such mail hailing from RBI offering lottery. Obviously this ain’t gonna be legitimate! :) But this kind of mail landing in inbox is … Continue reading →

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Kali Linux: A complete infosec distro

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Prashant
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BackTrack has always been the most popular choice when it comes to choose a security purpose distro. The offensive security open source distro gained a lot of popularity and was rolled till version 5 with frequent changes to the variants. … Continue reading →

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Innobuzz Cloud Campus : Becoming digitally engaged

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Prashant
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Online Education is the buzzword today. Many startups have initiated their idea in this area. But, changing the motion of e-learning wave and cutting through the clutter can only bring an initiative at the forefront. I happened to come across … Continue reading →

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XSS in Dell

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Prashant
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Dell is a leading name in the Information Technology industry, especially the hardware segment of the industry. From servers to work stations, desktops, laptops, mobiles, Dell has got its name and a good hold on leading forms of IT gadgets. … Continue reading →

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No, not a Java Zero Day again!

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Prashant
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For all netizens, I have a simple advice: either disable Java or uninstall it! A brand new Java Zero Day has been identified by security firm FireEye. The constant targets are browsers that have Java v1.6 Update 41 and Java … Continue reading →

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Critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player fixed

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Prashant
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Flash player and Acrobat reader are the two products of Adobe who have been heavily under constant attacks of cyber crooks. Be it zero days flaws or bypassing sandbox, the end user security has been left to get compromised. Yesterday … Continue reading →

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APTs and the Red Dragon

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Prashant
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Yesterday following a tweet, I came across a newly published report pointing towards the involvement of the Chinese government and its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) involvement in some long time cyber espionage carried out in the past. A leading security … Continue reading →

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HealthKart.com XSS

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Prashant
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Many a times passing by few websites, we have responsibly disclosed security related issues especially XSS and SQL injection threats. This is one of the findings of our. HealthKart.com is an e-commerce website dealing in health care products, providing online … Continue reading →

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Exploit Diary: Ruby on Rails and Java back with exploits

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Prashant
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The New Year welcomed Ruby on Rails and Java with exploits and zero days! Talking about Ruby on Rails first, an SQL injection vulnerability was identified on the active record in all versions. Due to the way dynamic finders in … Continue reading →

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