The Norton Cyber Crime Report stated how India suffered losses to the tune of $8 billion in 2011 due to cybercrimes  This ridiculously large figure should give one an idea about what we stand to lose if we don’t fight cybercrime. One important thing to point out here is that these cybercrimes were committed only via the web. So, can you imagine what the losses will be like if the mobile and social...

Norton, the international company that offers web and computer security products has announced that it has opened a Hindi language support centre in India to cater to the growing number of Hindi speaking users who are accessing the Internet. Starting today, Norton users can call this support centre and get support in Hindi. Ritesh Chopra, Country Sales Manager, India, Norton spoke about this new offering. “We...

If you think social networking sites are safe and all the information that you share on these is limited to your friends alone, then you are wrong. The Internet Security Threat Report suggests that social networking sites are increasingly being used to launch malware attacks in India and also to perpetrate crimes like identity thefts. The method used by the miscreants is rather simple and unassuming....

The world’s social networking hangout, Facebook, is involving the users when it comes to protecting them from Malicious content. With over 900 Million users worldwide, Facebook has been attracting hackers of all kinds. While it has recently launched an App Centre, Facebook fears some developers with a nefarious intent may attempt to sneak past its defenses & infects users’ computers. While...

In what seems to be a very strange yet interesting report, Internet Security Company Symantec has listed Blogs and Web Communication tools as being more dangerous than pornography websites. This news is at complete odds with the established belief that the shady folks over at all those pornography websites are always filling up your computer with the bad stuff! Whenever someone’s device or account...

The rapid penetration of high speed Internet has surely helped India explore opportunities well beyond the traditional routes. However, this growth has not been supported by security know-how. Hence smaller & medium companies (SMB) are increasingly falling prey to online malicious activities. Source: aboutbradsugars.com   According to leading online security firm Symantec, Indian companies...

Google’s Android ecosystem has been getting a lot of flak since malicious apps were discovered in the Android Market last year. Google had to remotely swipe off these entire app from every user’s phone. Besides the fact that kind of access into my personal phone is a little creepy, this ‘remote swiping’ did not actually offer a solution since Google would find out about these apps only after...

Facebook has always been at the centre of never ending privacy and safety accusations. Just recently, Founder Mark Zuckerburg’s private photos were leaked online due to a glitch. There are many more privacy issues that Facebook has grappled with but the accounts that are hacked by worms/malware are potentially the most dangerous. Security company Seculert has declared that the worm called Ramnit...

Malware attacks on the Android OS have risen significantly in the past few months.According to Trend Micro, a Global Cloud security leader, there has been a 14-fold increase of malware targeting Android smartphone users in the last six months. Another report from McAfee, estimates that the malware targeted at Android based devices jumped 76 per cent since the last quarter, making it the most attacked...

While many of us are rejoicing over the ways Facebook and Twitter have changed the way we connect to our friends and acquaintances, there is a lurking danger of we possibly losing some of our valuable information or assets sooner than later. Internet Security major PandaLabs in its 2010 Annual Security Report has revealed that Facebook and Twitter were the most unsafe social networking sites last year....