The source of high profile attack  on Google [Aurora] has been tracked down to the source, a Hacker from China. The US authorities have traced the person who had written the code to make it possible. Reportedly, the master-mind is a freelance security consultant which has ties with both Chinese government and military. What this means is, Chinese government had access to his work. The man claimed that Read further »

Windows 7’s popularity has raised its market share at a sky-high pace. Within 3 months of its official launch, it has crossed the Mac OS to capture 8% of the OS market. A while back, we discussed that Windows 7 features a half-baked “SoftAP” feature, also called “virtual Wi-Fi,” that allows a PC to function as a Wi-Fi client and also as an Access Point Read further »

As per the latest upcoming from the China Daily, the largest illegal hacker training and recruitment portal in China has been shut down by police . The operation was planned, executed by a  team size of 50. In the action, 3 people have been taken into custody along with million dollars worth assets. The allegations were that the group ran a site called Black Hawk Safety Net which offered various exploits, DDoS, readymade software. Along with them were bundled  Read further »

There exists an encryption that has been left UnBroken since 1942 approximately time around the World war 2.  This is called security – when encryption algorithm lasts long, really long. Unfortunately, Microsoft has a different story. After 17 years of windows, Read further »

Chinese hackers changed the face of Internet forever by taking the wrong step — trying to hack the search giant and several other giants. Apparently, we know that hackers exploited a Vulnerability in Internet Explorer, but little was known about it untill the code that hacked Google became public. So what does this code do ? In Easy Words: Basically, the script creates a blank element on the page. This element has an “address” like a house. Then Read further »

Everyday, 1000s and millions of hacking attempts are faced by top firms, worldover. The successful attempts cause damages from small user-level to enterprise-havocs. Recently, as google reports, they had been facing lots of attacks from Chinese hackers, which were brilliantly forged to hack into the Google’s servers and steal confidential/proprietary information. Google claims that these were “highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China”. But thing that brings even bigger concern is “at least twenty other large companies Read further »

Internet faced World Wide Panic as Twitter.com was defaced to run out of service. Soon after the attack Users were able to see a page that claimed work of “Iranian Cyber Hackers”. In simple words, it was nothing but a DNS hijacking attack in which Twitter’s DNS records were altered. That means surfers trying to reach the website directly via name resolution services were redirected to a fake domain, while the Twitter servers were running. As a result,  applications that depended upon Twitter’s API - such as TweetDeck or mobile phone Read further »

As reported by large number of sources, a Dutch hacker hacked a user’s Jailbroken iPhone and locked it unless it pays a mentioned amount to the Hacker. A Proof of concept comes from the Forum post by the targetted user on a Dutch forum. The message on iPhone says: “Your iPhone’s been hacked because it’s Read further »

NASA might have made significant discoveries in the deep space, their security has been breached 1100+ times within last 2 years. Being the hottest space mission organization, NASA has faced several hacking  attempts, both with bad intentions and just-for-fun kinds of hacker groups. Security gurus from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a Read further »

Earlier, back in the  90s when I first dated the Internet, I found credit cards were easy to exploit. It was as easy as getting a software that auto-generates numbers that could be used to make purchase online. Thank god, those things no longer work, other wise it would have been chaos. Well what you are about to read could be HARMFUL to us, again. WARNING: Do not proceed if you intend to exploit this. The sole purpose of the original author of the hack is for educational purposes only. Magnetic spoofers have been around for a while. The one you see in movies,  a kid hacks CCs with a piece of hardware, is very much possible. We’re getting close to that kind of magic with Read further »