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Police carry out raids against suspected file-sharing servers across Europe

Police in up to 14 European countries are said to be involved in an operation, targeting the Warez Scene, the network of individuals and servers at the top of the so-called ‘Piracy Pyramid’. Details are insufficient at the moment, but it is believed that at the request of Belgian authorities, raids have gone ahead in [...]

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Bollywood employing cyber hitmen to combat piracy

The most recent film to deploy was Peepli Live. Girish Kumar, managing director, Aiplex Software, which managed the Peepli Live account, said, “When we detect a website offering a link or a download, we contact the server hosts and intimate them about the illegal activity. They issue a notice to the site owner. If the [...]

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US & UK Govt. backed Cyber Security Games

In July we all heard about the UK govt backed Cyber Security Challenge game which was lauched by Baroness Neville-Jones, the Minister of State for Security at the Home Office. Now we have a game by US govt called as Cyber Protect hosted on the DoD Information Assurance portal. The first look of Cyber Protect seems inclusion security [...]

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Only 5 women contestants of 135 pass Defcon social engineering test

Of the 135 Fortune 500 employees targeted by social engineering hackers in a recent Defcon social engineering contest only five of them refused to give up any corporate information whatsoever. The contestants were extremely successful, said Chris Hadnagy, one of the event’s organizers. Just one company didn’t divulge the secrets participants were told to dig [...]

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Facebook boosts its security by adding remote logout feature

Facebook announced a security feature that will allow users to remotely logout from their account.  The information provided for each active session will consist of the login time, device name (if one has named it), a ballpark location derived from the IP address, and the browser and operating system on the used device. This way, even if [...]

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Google and Skype under the Indian Govt’s scanner now

RIM’s war with India has come to temporary peace with the govt giving the Canadian manufacturer a 2-month window for providing a solution to the security problem in India. Looks like India is serious this time concerning cyber and telecom security. India has never taken such a strict stand against internet corporates before. As with [...]

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Research In Motion averts ban in India

Research In Motion, the maker of Blackberry mobile phones and the  provider of the Blackberry messenger service avoided a ban in India by demanding 60 more days for solving the Indian Government’s problem. Lately, in a clarification RIM had cleared that even Blackberry doesn’t have access to data that is being sent over their network [...]

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RIP OpenSolaris

Oracle has finally said no to OpenSolaris. Yet another OpenSrouce product died in this commercial world. All of Oracle’s efforts on binary distributions of Solaris technology will be focused on Solaris 11. We will not release any other binary distributions, such as nightly or bi-weekly builds of Solaris binaries, or an OpenSolaris 2010.05 or later [...]

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Whats a W.A.S.P?

A pair of hackers (or maybe crackers) have created what is known as Wi-Fi Aerial Surveillance Platform aka W.A.S.P to be flown around to detect insecure / open internet connections. W.A.S.P is an ITX-form-factor computer, with a 500MHz Via C7 processor running BT 4. Details: http://www.cio.com/article/604719/Giant_W.a.S.P_Sniffs_Out_Insecure_Wi_Fi?source=ClubHack 

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Indian Home Ministry selects Wipro to develop core software for Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System

WIPRO has been selected as the Software Development Agency (SDA) at the Center for the prestigious Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS) project, a mission mode project under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), CCTNS aims to be a nation-wide networked infrastructure for the evolution of IT-enabled and state-of-the-art, criminal tracking system. The CCTNS will [...]

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