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Two security firms (FireEye and Mandiant), have found a group of hackers (Fin5) who specialize in credit card stealing and have till date stolen 150,000 credit cards data from many unnamed casinos. Surprisingly, the hackers had the access to the databases of the casinos for the one complete year without being identified. The firms revealed this threat […]
Security vulnerabilities in UPnP continue to crop up and continue to put millions of home networking devices at risk for compromise. The latest was revealed in early August, but prompted an advisory yesterday from the DHS-sponsored CERT at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. It’s called Filet-o-Firewall and it combines a number vulnerabilities […]
The Great Firewall of China known for censoring/blocking websites in the country was under DDoS attack which caused a blockage of Reuters’ news website in China on Friday. The content of the website was blocked and could not be accessed later on Thursday. Both the English and Chinese version were inaccessible but the Chinese clients could still […]
A computer is never truly secure , but with the help of tools/software we can make it difficult for today’s hacker. The whole idea behind this is to make it extremely hard to track you down and of course the sake of your privacy. This tutorial is about 2 types of protection. Offline protection Online […]