UAC or User Access control force program execution to go through user permissions. This is one feature that was improved in Windows 7 to reduce the annoyance caused in windows Vista. But now as per Sophos senior security engineer found that  User Account Control is flawed. As expected, UAC prompts the user for permission before granting elevated privileges but was ineffective in stopping common samples of malware from running, 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 »

Botnet is a collection of software robots, or bots, that run automatically. It is often associated with malicious software over network of computers using distributed computing. While botnets are often named after their malicious software name, there are typically multiple botnets in operation using the same malicious software families, but operated by different criminal entities. While the term “botnet” can be used to refer to any group of bots, such as IRC bots, this word is generally used to refer to a collection of compromised computers (called Zombie computers) running software, usually installed via drive-by downloads exploiting Web browser vulnerabilities, worms, Trojan horses, or backdoors, under a common command-and-control infrastructure. The Read further »