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Android 4.0.4 multiple Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

The Samsung Galaxy S3 can be hacked via NFC, allowing attackers to download all data from the Android smartphone

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9 million PCs infected with ZeroAccess botnet

The rootkit family Win32/Sirefef & Win64/Sirefef (a.k.a. ZeroAccess Botnet) update its command & control protocol & grow to infect more computers globally

hacking

Bharatiya Janata Party website defaced by Anonymous Hackers

Hackers from Indian Anonymous Group hacked Bharatiya Janata Party’s website, BJP.org, and defaced it.

vulnerability

Oracle Database stealth password cracking vulnerability

Some Oracle DBs suffered with vulnerability in auth protocol enabling remote attacker to brute-force a token provided prior to auth & determine user’s pass

technology

India plans 61 times faster supercomputer by 2017

The government has drawn a blueprint for developing the next generation of supercomputers that could be 61 times faster than existing machines.

technology

See, what's coming to Microsoft phones

Engineers at Microsoft are developing a new technology which would allow you to ‘smack’ the screen of your mobile and silence its ringing.

security

Government plans cyber surveillance agency to monitor the web

Idea is to keep a watch on web content in ‘public’ domain & has potential to create law & order problems like what India witnessed in recent Assam violence

vulnerability

Private US networks vulnerable to cyber attack: Pentagon

Privately-owned U.S. computer networks remain vulnerable to cyber attacks, and many U.S. companies are not doing enough to protect them

security

New encoding to make emails hacker-proof

Computer scientists Duncan Wong and Xiaojian Tian of City University of Hong Kong, explain how the attempts of realizing perfect email privacy with PGP by developing a technique to do so.

0-day

Operation Aurora - Other Zero-Day Attacks targeting finance and Energy

The Aurora Trojan horse is just one of many attacks by same group of malware authors over past 3 years using Edgewood hacking platform & know many 0-day

GoDaddy’s DNS Servers Go Down, Along With Thousands of Sites

GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar and one of the biggest web hosts, is experiencing major downtime. The main GoDaddy.com domain is unreachable and websites hosted by GoDaddy are also down. The more problematic part is that any domain registered with GoDaddy that uses its nameservers and DNS

hacking

Ankit Fadia's website Hacked By Teamgreyhat (TGH)

Calling himself an Ethical Hacker;  Ankit Fadia is under cyberattack. A Hacktivist group, called Teamgreyhat, has officially declared operation against Ankit Fadia. According to official press release [http://pastebin.com/AywRQaHQ] TGH said #target Ankitfadia Engaged. In this attack they have successfully hacked into the Ankit Fadia’s official site

HTTPS

CRIME: New SSL/TLS attack for Hijacking HTTPS Sessions

Two security researchers claim to have developed a new attack that can decrypt session cookies from HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) connections. From the security researchers who created and demonstrated the BEAST (Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS) tool for breaking SSL/TLS encryption comes another attack that exploits a flaw

facebook

You may Get Call from Facebook if Profile Identity is Suspect

Social networking giant Facebook is making a “huge effort” to weed out fake profiles to prevent misuse of such identities, a senior company official has said.

google

Google Launches Free Voice Navigation In India

Finally, Indians can enjoy the privilege of a free and accurate voice assisted navigation, as Google launched its navigation service in India.

stack overflow

Critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Photoshop CS6

Adobe has released an update for Photoshop CS6 that closes a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2012-4170) in its popular graphics editing program. Both the Mac and Windows versions of Photoshop CS6 (aka Photoshop 13.0) contain a critical vulnerability that could allow an attacker to take control of affected

technology

Indians Create Technology to Take 3D Pictures On Smartphones

The Light Field Camera technology, integrates features found in a Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera into a Smartphone to get the 3D pictures

hacking

Hackers Leak 12 Million Apple IDs Online; FBI Denies

A group of hackers has released a set of ID numbers of 1m Apple devices & claimed to have obtained 12m Apple device IDs by hacking an FBI agent's laptop.

hacking

Sony mobile customers emails, names hacked in China

Japan’s Sony Corp said hackers have accessed the email addresses and names of as many as 400 of its mobile unit’s customers in China and Taiwan held on servers owned by a third-party vendor. No credit card information was compromised in the attack, which hacking group NullCrew claimed

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Hackers backing Syrian regime hit Al-Jazeera

The official website of the Al-Jazeera TV satellite channel was attacked Tuesday by hackers backing the Syrian regime. Hackers replaced the home page of Al-Jazeera’s Arabic site with a statement that says the cyberattack was a protest against its coverage of the Syria civil war. “This is in response

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Swedish government, military websites shut down by DoS attacks

Swedish government websites were jammed by hackers for hours Monday, with some supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claiming responsibility on Twitter. The websites of the Swedish government, Armed Forces and the Swedish Institute were among those experiencing problems. Niklas Englund, head of digital media at the Swedish Armed Forces,

technology

Nokia Lumia 920 to feature wireless charging, 8MP camera

Nokia is set to launch its new handset Lumia 920. And a report has revealed that Nokia’s upcoming Windows Phone handset will include wireless charging. This phone will be loaded with Microsoft’s latest phone OS, Windows Phone 8. According to a report by technology blog The Verge, the

0-day

FireEye spotted Critical 0-day vulnerability in Java Runtime Environment

FireEye’s Malware Intelligence Lab is making the claim that there is a new zero day vulnerability in the wild that affects the latest version of Java

facebook

Facebook accused of copying Apple's design

Social networking giant Facebook has unveiled a new look for its messages service, which according to some users looks ‘very similar’ to Apple’s iPad mail software.

microsoft

Microsoft gets new logo after 25 years

Microsoft will use a new logo for the first time in over two and a half decades. The software titan has created a new logo which has been heavily inspired by the emblem of Windows operating system. This change in the logo also shows the company’s focus on the