Chinese Government has added additional layers of filtering to all traffic that reaches the end-users. The censorship is one of it kinds which assures cleaner WWW. Because of this civilized censorship, the browsing experience is different in china than the rest of the world. Let’s discuss How Chinese internet is different from the world! 1. Due to congestion on China’s backbone networks and the time it takes for communications to travel across undersea cables to the United States and Europe, travelers find a noticeable difference in the responsiveness of the Internet in China compared to the rest of the world. 2. The Chinese government uses four mechanisms — DNS blocking, reset commands, URL keyword blocking and Read further »

He wakesup from a dream, which he thought was a dream. In the dream world he is a hacker, and to enter the Real world, he takes the Red pill, He wakes up to the real world and fights back into the Virtual world, because He is the One – Neo. The concept of Matrix was once rejected by analysts. But today we feel with the kind of Technology advancements, it’s not far from I-M-Possible. I started from the “Hacker” word to bring-out another advancement of an underworld. Normally, the Hacker word is used for both good and bad guys. I`ll refer mostly to bad guys. Let’s start from this - Late last year, the software engineers developing a new Windows-based networking client confronted an all-too-common problem in today’s hostile Read further »

Ok, if you ever used those symbian phones, you probably have felt the need of Antivirus on mobile platform. There are 100s and 1000s of sources for .sis installer files with no trusted signing authority. (even signed apps have malware). Antivirus software maker AVG has outlined plans to deliver malware protection for the iPhone by the end of 2010. I have two questions: 1. Is it needed?  and 2. Will it ruin the iPhone experience? Smith from AVG product development said: “I’d love to see it towards the end of next year, Really, it’s less about AV [and more to do with] protecting and stopping anything from getting on there, in real-time. [Malware creators] will use the Read further »

Cybercriminals are improving day by day in terms of technology they use to counterfeit security of Bank systems. Recently, a new malicious software program, that can be installed on ATMs running Windows XP operating system that records sensitive card details, have been found by security vendor Trustwave. The malware activity has been found on ATMs in Eastern European countries, and is likely to expand over to western europe aswell. How it works? Step by Step 1. The malware records the magnetic stripe information on the back of a card as well as the PIN (Personal Identification Number), which would potentially allow criminals to clone the card in order to withdraw cash. 2. The collected card data, which is encrypted using the DES Read further »