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Beware Online Gamers; Spammers Are After YOU.

Beware Online Gamers; Spammers Are After YOU.

Let me raise some questions first.
–> Do you know what is a Spam ?
–> Why do spammers exist in the virtual world in abundance ?
The most correct answers to the above two questions are -
Spam is basically the abuse of any electronic messaging system by sending unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. The most simple and economically [...]

Ash & Yuvi - India's Most Dangerous Celebs On Cyberspace

Ash & Yuvi – India’s Most Dangerous Celebs On Cyberspace

If you are still nostalgic about those six sixes Yuvraj Singh hit in an over off Stuart Broad and head to Google for downloading that video, beware! There is a 20% chance that you end up downloading a malware instead. In a recent report released by McAfee, Yuvraj Singh and Aishwarya Rai are among the [...]

Did You Pledge For FireFox 3 World Record?

Breaking a World Record might be hard only if you are not some one like Firefox. Few days back they had released RC 1 of FF3 for public testing. And now Firefox is ready to set a new world record for “the most software downloads in a day.”
 
The actual date is yet to be revealed. [...]

Vulnerability Masquerades As Windows Update

The Cyber Security Wing of DIT has identified the following websites as the ones spreading the malicious code and have asked the users to block these websites.

* www8 DOT update microsoft DOT com DOT sec94 DOT in
* update DOT microsoft DOT com DOT cfm48 DOT com
* update DOT microsoft DOT com DOT asp63 DOT net.

Bank of India Website Attacked. Unsafe currently.

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: [...]