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APTs and the Red Dragon

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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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Chinese hackers strike at Indian Navy computers

Chinese hackers have always strike at Indian cyber boundaries, be it PMO attack or other sensitive government authority. At this time they have managed to broke into the computers of Indian Navy. They were successful in penetrating computers at Eastern … Continue reading

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Stuxnet, Duqu and now Flame!

Malware and artificial life have become an important weapons in the cyber warfare. In the past we have seen how Stuxnet and Duqu were silently causing damage to their targets assigned. Where Stuxnet made fatal attack and caused heavy damage … Continue reading

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DoS, Mass defacements and now phone bomb!

Hacktivist groups present around have also used popular attacking methodologies and gain access to their targets to mark their presence and protest. We have seen DDOS attacks, mass defacement, making confidential data public. Hacktivist group “TeaMp0isoN” made used a different … Continue reading

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Anonymous begins the storm on China

Anonymous, the hacking group that believes in fight for freedom in cyber space, has started a wind against China. And now the wind seems to turn into storm. They claim to have defaced more than 480 web sites over the … Continue reading

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Tibetian organizations becoming victims of malware attack

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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Anonymous Lulzsec, civil armies in the cyber space?

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!

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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Indian state government to implement firewall after attacks

Indian government sites have always faced attacks and breaches in the past. Be it the “Shadow in the cloud” cyber espoinage, only a hope glows up to learn lessons from these attacks. Recently, Andhra Pradesh state government is implementing a … Continue reading

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Does Indian military have access to RIM, Apple and Nokia?

Access and surveillance on the telecom and cyber world have always raised concern over privacy of users. In the race of getting one step ahead of the enemy, the communication platforms have been useful in extracting useful information for nations. … Continue reading

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