ATM Hacking has been popular for years. With some nasty tricks, it had been easy to hack into most ATM systems.

But as the time evolved, those methods became obsolete and hardly few of those  hacks still persist and the ones that remain in sight are relative harder and un-popular.

With the latest Hack, as demoed at BlackHat conference, it can get pretty easy. Barnaby Jack, director of security testing at Seattle-based IOActive,  brought two ATMs onto the Black Hat conference stage and demonstrated that with a press of a button, ATM machine is spits out its .. 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 .. 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 .. 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 ?

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 .. Read Further »

HTML 5 comes with alot of promise for the web.  It has lot of new features that could make Web Browsers and Apps much more powerful than they ever were.

Let’s go by an example. Try accessing Gmail on iPhone or Android phone,  you will have notice some differences from what it used to be a month ago. The new thing worth noticing is the introduction of the offline access.

Gmail went down, .. Read Further »

Sometimes its ridiculous how the most common (and important) technology in our daily-life is vulnerable to kinds of attacks that could bring nightmares. Still, no one is aware, no one is doing anything. Such is the Case of Today’s GSM — The most popular Cellphone Technology.

Every year, some hacker comes out and breaks something crucial to us, which makes us and authorities learn it the HARD WAY, “We are not safe”.

The best work is done by BlackHat and DEFCON, which are open forums for Hackers, especially DEFCON, which has open hacking challenges.

If you ever went to the DEFCONs, you know what I’m talking .. Read Further »

Sometimes, we overlook a critical aspect which could mean that our efforts of decade can be blasted within seconds. Such is a bug found in Linux 2.4 Kernel.

According to security researchers, a bug in the Linux kernel has just been uncovered that makes just about every distribution utilizing kernel 2.4 and 2.6 on just about all architectures since May of 2001 vulnerable to a certain kind of attack.

4byte ASN (autonomous system numbers) was incorporated into most BGP routers recently. Since we are running out of ASN no. given to service providers, authority have stopped using previous Internet 2byte BGP ASN routing Updates.

The newly found vulnerabilities affect only devices running Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE Software (here after both referred to as simply Cisco IOS) with support for RFC4893 and that have been configured for BGP routing.

This feature has a .. Read Further »