Kaspersky’s support website hacked!

February 11, 2009 0 Comments 0 tags

Hard to digest, but true. The leading anti-virus website provider Kaspersky’s support website got hacked and details are published at this blog. Kasperksy admitted that it’s their fault and blamed

Social Engineering is no science, it is pure trickery!

February 1, 2009 0 Comments 0 tags

The term “Social Engineering” sounds like a serious academic subject on reforming a wayward society! Alas, far from the truth, it is pure and simple trickery, a con job. The

More Trojan horse for Apple Mac! Is Mac more insecure than windows?

January 27, 2009 0 Comments 0 tags

One more malware have been spotted for the Apple Mac machine. This time Trojan.iServices.B which gets into the system, open the backdoor in Mac machines and connect them to a

Detecting New Rootkits

January 25, 2009 0 Comments 0 tags

A new rootkit can either be one that has never been seen before, or one that uses new technologies or previously unused methods of attack. Or both. Andthat is where

What is a rootkit?

January 25, 2009 0 Comments 0 tags

For me, it is the evolution of the Trojan Horse concept. It is, in these days, a complete package of trojanized system utilities, with some interesting add-on programs, like specially

Cyber attacks are real but is there any foolproof defense yet?

January 23, 2009 0 Comments 0 tags

Tulip Systems Inc., the world renowned high bandwidth and broadcast stream hosting service US corporation was under repeated cyber attacks aimed at disrupting web services during the Georgia-Russia standoff few