Security by Passion !
Its not even 24 hours after celebration of New Year and hackers have taken a toll on Microsoft’s Skype social platforms demanding to stop spying. Syrian Electronic Army posted numerous twitters messages before skype took control of its accounts. The tweet said “Don’t use Microsoft emails(hotmail,outlook),They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the […]
Bitcoin gained tremendous attention by media recently and so as in the eyes of regulators of various countries. Bitcoin exchanges in India were suspended after regulators (The Reserve Bank of India ) warned about the risks associated with them. RBI mentioned that : There have been several media reports of the usage of VCs, including […] Snapshot is one of the most popular app for Android and IoS has ignored the security issue which puts its uses at risk as per Znet media Snapchat ignored a security vulnerability reported by Gibson security, a Australian researcher since last August has triggered a huge risk at this point. “Exploits of Snapchat’s API allows […] With the technology shift from desktop to mobile, more information is sent online for convenience to access to personal information. We trade stocks, banking, pay bills, shop and various things online. With this kind of advancement, risk of exposing information to the bad guys are very high even with the right security practices are implemented. […] A detailed report from Reuters reveals that the most trusted and widely used security company in the world received $10 million to keep its encryption weak so that surveillance organisation can get around security boundaries. This probably is one of the evilest intention we heard so far in the security space. RSA being the last […] Customers who shopped at Target between Nov 27th and Dec 15th may have to keep checking their card or debit cards statements often to make sure they are not target of a massive data breach. The details of this data breach is not yet known but as per many sources US Secret service has been […] Eric Rosol from Wisconsin participated in the 2011 DDOS attack ( distributed denial o f service) with Anonymous on Koch Industries. For his participation of one minute, the judge fined $183,000 on Eric and two years of probation. Was this justified ? Well no one knows and its probobly not. For a company like Koch […] WhatsApp is one of the widely used messaging platform in the recent days having both mobile and desktop app versions. Its been normal to see spam voicemail messages from spammers which goes directly to spam folder. However some do escape the spam folder very easily and ends up in users hands. The fate of the […] A security pen tester from Germany @secalert discovered remote code execution vulnerability on ebay website. As per David Vieira-Kurtz blog , “I found a controller which was prone to remote-code-execution due to a type-cast issue in combination with complex curly syntax. ” David exploited the RCE flaw on ebay.com website and displayed output of phpinfo() […] Recently Google introduced a remote Device locking feature to its Android Device Manager to unlock a stolen or lost device. This feature was exploited Researchers from Curesec Research Team from Germany discovered a vulnerability on Android 4.3 that allow a malicious app to remove device locks.leading to CVE 2013-6271. As per the blog, “ The bug […]