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Abuse of social networking sites misused among youth in Kochi !
while engaging in online social networking sites seemed to have yielded little results, if the statistics and current trends are any indication. The Cyber Cell of the City Police has received more than 40 complaints of abuse of social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook this year itself. In...
Man Arrested for Hacking Girl's Social Media and Posting Lewd Messages
A 29-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for hacking into a girl's social networking profile, altering her photos, and posting inappropriate messages. The police apprehended Pramod Nana Bavdekar from his home in Andheri, seizing his computer and hard disk as evidence. The incident began on...
Lawmakers, Scholars Warn Against Reactionary Anti-WikiLeaks Legislation
The WikiLeaks disclosures this fall that have precipitated so much controversy and agita among national security officials and politicians should not be used as a springboard for new, more restrictive laws, lawmakers, attorneys and policy analysts said in a House hearing Thursday. In fact, the...
Recent WikiLeaks-Related Cyberattacks Prompt Call for Policy Changes
In New York on Sunday, lawmakers urged President Obama to expand the U.S. State Department’s foreign policy mechanisms to address crime and security on the Internet. They cited recent attacks on companies severing ties with WikiLeaks as a main reason for these changes. At Symantec's New York City...
Introduction to Cyber Law of India !
In Simple way we can say that cyber crime is unlawful acts wherein the computer is either a tool or a target or both Cyber crimes can involve criminal activities that are traditional in nature, such as theft, fraud, forgery, defamation and mischief, all of which are subject to the Indian Penal...
Alleged Mega-D Botnet Controller Pleads Not Guilty
The man accused of running the Mega-D spam-spewing botnet has pleaded not guilty to charges that he was using the botnet to send millions of spam messages a day, some of them laden with malware. Oleg Nikolaenko was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Wisconsin on Friday on charges that he violate...
WWWThreads Cross Site Scripting
www.eVuln.com advisory: XSS vulnerability in WWWThreads php version Summary: http://evuln.com/vulns/155/summary.html Details: http://evuln.com/vulns/155/description.html -----------Summary----------- eVuln ID: EV0155 Software: n/a Vendor: WWWThreads Version: 2006.11.25 Critical Level: low Type:...
CBI Website Hacked: Pakistani Group Claims Responsibility
The Central Bureau of Investigation CBI confirmed on Saturday that its website was hacked. The CBI has registered a case under the Information Technology Act. "It has come to the notice of the CBI that its official website was unauthorizedly accessed and defaced during the night of December 3 and...
Perl MIME Boundary 'multipart_init' Unspecified Security Vulnerability
Perl is prone to an unspecified security vulnerability because the MIME part of the 'multipartinit' is not random. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbperlcgi44892.nasl 5323 2017-02-17 08:49:23Z teissa $ Perl MIME Boundary 'multipartinit' Unspecified Security Vulnerability Authors: Michael Meyer...
kernel: net/sched/act_police.c infoleak
The tcfactpolicedump function in net/sched/actpolice.c in the actions implementation in the network queueing functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel...
UK: Google Street View Data Snarfing Broke the Law
Search giant Google violated the United Kingdom’s Data Protection Act by gobbling up personal data, in addition to images and GPS data, with its roving Street View autos. According to a report by the BBC, the UK’s Information Commissioner ruled there was a “significant breach” of the country’s da...
Cyber Stalking and Defamation Criminalized in IT Act Amendments
With mobile phones now essentially serving as personal computers, proposed amendments to the Information Technology Act, 2006, specify that transmitting offensive or menacing text, audio, or video can result in two years of imprisonment. This punishment also applies if the content is false and...
kernel: net/sched/act_police.c infoleak
The tcfactpolicedump function in net/sched/actpolice.c in the actions implementation in the network queueing functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel...
New Jailbreak Could Defy Patching on iPhones, iPads
Code that allows Apple customers to circumvent that company’s exclusive content protection features was released on Wednesday, with security researchers warning that the hack could be impossible for Apple to fix on devices that have already been manufactured. The Chronic Development Team, a group...
Andy Jaquith on Measuring Meaningful Information Security Metrics
The March issue of Information Security magazine is out this week. The cover story is a look at how security information management systems need to evolve, in particular by integrating identity management with SIM in order to tie policy violations to user activity. Also, expert Andrew Jaquith...
The Story of the First Internet Worm
Robert Tappan Morris was the first person convicted by a jury under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986. The story of the worm he created and what happened to him after it was released is a tale of mistakes, infamy, and ultimately the financial and professional success of its author. Read th...
Court Rules in Favor of Kaspersky in Filtering Case
From Wired David Kravets A federal appeals court, in the first decision of its kind, said Thursday that companies providing malware, spyware and adware blocking services are immunized by the Communications Decency Act of 1996 from lawsuits claiming unfair business practices. A three-judge panel o...
Canadian Parliament considers anti-malware law
From Stop Badware Maxim Weinstein The Canadian House of Commons is considering bill C-27 gc.ca, the Electronic Commerce Protection Act. In addition to providing civil penalties for unsolicited commercial e-mail spam and the unauthorized interception of e-mail man in the middle attacks, it provide...
Bad outweighs the good in Senate cybersecurity bill
The Senate bill introduced earlier this month that would make sweeping changes to the way that information security is practiced both in the federal government and the private sector has a number of good elements, but the flaws in the proposed legislation outweight the benefits, writes Steve...
phpOCS <= 0.1-beta3 (index.php act) Local File Inclusion Vulnerability
Exploit for unknown platform in category web applications ====================================================================== phpOCS = 0.1-beta3 index.php act Local File Inclusion Vulnerability ====================================================================== :::::::-. ... ::::::. :::. ;;...