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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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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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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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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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Cover Story : Internet Explorer zero day used in CFR cyber espionage

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Prashant

First of all, Happy New Year to our all readers! The past year witnessed major cyber attacks, that later turned out to be some state sponsored cyber attacks. An example of one such state sponsored attack was the Russians attacking … Continue reading →

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Weak SSL implementation makes Android apps expose user data

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Prashant

  Android applications have earlier been used to steal user data from their devices. Disguised as trojan or malware, the mobility has possessed serious threats to the users. In a recent new, Researchers from Germany had conducted a review and … Continue reading →

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Inside story: Firefox 16 eploit code revealed

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Prashant

  Mozzila firefox, one of the most popular browser on planet had two think on its security and withdrew the release of its version 16 after a security researcher had discovered a vulnerability in the release. The new version 16 … Continue reading →

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And again we have an IE zero day being exploited in the wild!

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Prashant

  The java zero day exploit had already came under spotlight and was found to be exploited in the wild. It seems as if the java zero day authors have something more in there bags. In latest happening, a security … Continue reading →

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