150,000 Smartphones Attacked By Virus

Guess what is bothering the 150,000 Chinese cell phone users nowadays: A Smartphone virus popularly known as ‘X Undercover’ that can remotely monitor the calls or text messages of the users....
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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...
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Governments Across The World Tries To Curb Internet Piracy

It looks like the governments across the globe are finally realizing the menace of internet piracy which is seriously putting pressure on already turmoiled piracy related sectors like entertainment and...
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Confickr.C – Is a Virus Threat Looming This April Fool’s Day?

Graham Cluley, of the security specialist Sophos, has claimed that Conficker C is programmed “to hunt for new instructions on April 1″.  There has been tremendous online buzz about Conficker...
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China, US – 2 Of the Highest Sources of Traffic Attack: Akamai Report

The Akamai report for “State of the Internet” (Q1 – 2008). The report (pdf – registration required) looks mostly at data on the origins of attack traffic, network outages and de-peering events,...
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Vulnerability Masquerades As Windows Update

Economic Times reports that a Windows vulnerability is making the rounds on the Internet under the disguise of a Windows critical Update. The Department of Information Technology (DIT) says that some...
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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...
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Smishing Hits Mobile Users

When you might have just thought my mobile phone is much safer than pc which is very often attacked by viruses, this may make you think twice. After PC the hacker’s new playground has been mobile...
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Online Financial Fraud Risen By 81% In Past 6 Months

Symantec Corporation, a computer security solutions provider said online financial fraud has risen by 81 % globally in the past six months and is still growing. “India is a key element in the fraud...
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