NEW DELHI: The Government is mulling setting up of a National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC) for assessing cyber security threat on a real time basis and monitoring of internet traffic. Recently a high-level meeting was called at the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) during which establishment of NCCC was deliberated upon. The meeting, which was […]
GENEVA: Within three months of the launch of the internet “pornography” domain “.xxx,” 10 cases have been launched against Web pirates registering sites on it using the names of reputable companies and people, insiders said on Monday. Sources at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) reported that among complainants to its dispute resolution system over […]
FBI Director Robert Mueller suggested Thursday that cyber-security threats could soon be more of a threat than terrorism. “Terrorism remains the FBI’s top priority. But in the not too distant future, we anticipate that the cyber threat will pose the number one threat to our country,” Mueller said in a speech before the RSA Cyber […]
Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall The cloud technology is spreading like wild fire all over the world. And like everything else in technology, unfortunately security is the last thing that vendors consider while developing technology. The same happened with the cloud. At the beginning, nobody thought about security in the virtual cloud. After several security […]
DropBox is of course an amazing utility. There are endless creative ways to use it to sync different things. This tutorial simply focuses on torrenting & uTorrent. (The same exact principles apply to any torrent client.) 1. Get a Free DropBox account. 2GB is free from HERE 2. In uTorrent: Options > Preferences > Directories […]
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BEIJING — A Chinese company said Tuesday it will ask customs officials to ban imports and exports of Apple’s iPads due to a dispute over ownership of the trademark. All of Apple’s iPads are manufactured in China, meaning global sales of the popular tablet computers might be affected if authorities agreed to enforce such a […]
I just checked it a minute back and he was right. It has been hacked. This is the homepage at this moment (10:00 PM IST) As you can see from the image above, it has been hacked by EvilShadow team — 7z1&Ancker. From the tiny little flag and blog links, it looks like the […]
According to CVE-2012-0056, linux kernel 2.6.39 and later versions is vulnerable to local privilege escalation by any local users due to the mem_write function does not properly check for permissions when writing to /proc/<pid>/mem, when ASLR is disabled. Please take a look at this demonstration to see how it works. Reference: 1. http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-0056 2. http://blog.zx2c4.com/749 […]