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A few days back, while surfing, I came across this piece of article that discussed how a researcher named Dan Kaminsky has figured out a flaw in the basic architecture of the Internet. The flaw, which appears in the DNS system allows for poison attacks. Dan had been working with Microsoft, Cisco and the Internet Consortium to patch the vulnerability. Dan had planned to disclose the vulnerability once he is done patching it up. He was planning to disclose the vulnerability in the Black Hat security conference to be held on August 6.

You know computing in India has really taken off when you have Times of India, reporting a 16-year-old, class 10 student making millions by hacking credit cards online. Reportedly, Ajay, a resident of Mumbai got hooked to hacking while playing games online. He got into contact with certain hackers and curious about the [...]

We have been hearing lot about cyber crimes. Lots of developments have been happening in the cyber security domain. Even a toll free number was recently launched by Agape India to combat cyber crime. These days online transaction companies are looking forward to having a safe transaction and for this reason online ticketing portals include [...]

 
 
Some days back we have discussed about the attempts that were made to hack Facebook. We also discussed about online ticketing crime. It was easy for a hacker to hack the accounts and transfer money or use someone else’s account for transaction. In the past hackers hacked accounts for fun or taking revenge. Presently, they [...]

Hacking websites and personal information of the users is one of the favorites among the hackers. Now a days we hear a lot that a girl’s personal information is hacked and the photographs are used to create a porn MMS and so on. Few months back a Canadian Porn company Istra Holdings Inc trading [...]

 
For those who are unaware of the terms black hat and white hat – a black hat hacker is one who does or is interested in doing bad things. They are the so called bad guys as they make people’s life difficult by breaching the security codes or corrupting the integrity and reliability [...]

The Bank Of India website (www.bankofindia.com) came under serious attack last night. The site was hijacked and was being used to distribute Malware (Harmful software).
It would be advised not to go visit the site yet. Bank of India is yet to issue any official advisory regarding the exploit.
HTML Source of the Bank of India site: [...]