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India Wakes Up To Securing the Wifi connections. Thank You, Mr. Terrorist ?

India Wakes Up To Securing the Wifi connections. Thank You, Mr. Terrorist ?

So, all the recent terrorists have been tracked to Mumbai. Also, it was made clear than the terrorists were smarter than the average Indians. The terrorists used others Wi-Fi networks to carry out their communication. The terrorists were smart enough. The Indians were not.
I cannot help but remember the tag line of the recent Hind [...]

Malicious Websites on the Rise, Google’s Blogger the Top Target

How secure are you when you browse the internet from your computer? How secure is your financial data? Do you check what page you are going to visit? How safe is the page that you have just opened in your browser?

GMail Introduces New Privacy Settings - Remote Log Out, Logged In Stats & IP Address!

GMail Introduces New Privacy Settings - Remote Log Out, Logged In Stats & IP Address!

 
Here is an innovation from GMail that every single email user in the world is guaranteed to love! How many times have you wondered if you had signed out of your email after accessing it from a public computer? Have you ever been a victim of password theft? We all love the fact that Google [...]

637 Million Insecure Web Surfers - Microsoft Forced to Launch SmartScreen Filter

637 Million Insecure Web Surfers - Microsoft Forced to Launch SmartScreen Filter

A group of researchers from IBM’s Internet Security systems, Google and ETH Zurich have released a study which says that 40 percent of the total internet users are using outdated versions of web browsers which makes them vulnerable to attack, thus posing a security risk to any vital information stored on the user’s computer. The researchers were able to determine that out of the 1.4 billion internet users worldwide, 637 million used outdated versions of browsers.

Funding Updates!

Funding Updates!

A lot of mergers and acquisitions have been happening in the ICT space. Newer companies have been raising investments to fund their operations and expansions. Below are some of the investments done by few companies.

 
1) IDG Invests $2.5 million In iViz
 
 
Data security is fast becoming a major issue faced by several IT and non-IT [...]

Now Comes White Hat Viruses

 
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 [...]

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: [...]