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 »

Surveillance systems can relieve your worries, but, they can also relieve your wallet. Why fall for expensive equipment when you can build your own at Fraction of cost ? You can use a cheap Web Cam as a good Security camera that does almost everything that professional equipment does. I’ve been trying few softwares that would serve the purpose by securing my roof and the main door. Here is the softwares I’ve finally shortlisted and thought you would be interested in. Read further »

The end of Internet Explorer is finally here. Series of events: Google Hacking, removal of support for Google apps, several other vulnerabilities are forcing users to move to alternates. Recently, at Black Hat DC conference, a security consultant (Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina) demoed how it’s possible to exploit a flaw in Internet Explorer browser that turns your personal computer into a public file server. In other words, attacker can Read further »

How many times did you lose patience over unlocking your windows machine with your long-passwords and how many times you ahted it when you had to share your password for use by your roommate? Well, hate it no more, here is an application that will kill this problem permanently. FaceCode is an access control software developed by Recognix Technologies LTD. It is ideal for your home and office PC, FaceCode is a user friendly face recognition PC logon software. FaceCode is the only product using advance face recognition technology to control the access to your computer. Faceode verify the identity of the user and logs them on to their personal account. FaceCode gives you complete control over access to your PC. Using a simple web-camera, FaceCode will recognize existing PC users and log them onto their own user area without the need to type in usernames or passwords. Key Features: - 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 »

Google has long offered the ability to use a secure connection with Gmail via settings or using https:// in the URL itself. Now Google has defaulted it to https connection. I don’t know about the readers, but I always used secure anyway. You can still move back to http, but that would be very unjustified. Google was concerned about latency issues caused with https, that’s why it was never defaulted, but now Google seems to learn that security it the topmost thing we need. Definitely this is triggered by High profile attack on Google from China. Google 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 »