Do you think web passwords are the weakest link in security? Indeed they are.

Between 500K and 500M sets of credentials have been compromised over the recent years, according to various sources. Just last week, a compromise of an educational service Edmondo has been reported to expose as many as 78M user accounts. At the same time, individual users are exposed to so many...

Hackers Using 'Shellshock' Bash Vulnerability to Launch Botnet Attacks

Researchers on Thursday discovered a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability in the widely used command-line shell GNU Bourne Again Shell Bash, dubbed "Shellshock" which affects most of the Linux distributions and servers worldwide, and may already have been exploited in the wild to take over...

Cyber war against Israel have taken very dangerous turn

Cyber war against Israel have taken very dangerous turn The Cyber war between Egypt and Israel have taken very dangerous turn by setting normal internet users as target for botnet attacks. Since week ago some Egyptian hackers attacked so many Israeli's gov communities and organizations on the...

Cyber war against Israel have taken very dangerous turn

Cyber war against Israel have taken very dangerous turn The Cyber war between Egypt and Israel have taken very dangerous turn by setting normal internet users as target for botnet attacks. Since week ago some Egyptian hackers attacked so many Israeli's gov communities and organizations on the...

Where To Buy Your Tools From Hackers ?

Software that facilitates the attack by beginners online scammers and the future is big business anarchists, says Karlin Lillington The suites are equipped with new software with all the trappings of modern software now offers: cloud computing hosting, software as a service SaaS functions,...

Week in Security: Year-end E-Card Drama, Foreign Spies and Sandboxes – Not So Safe After All?

An onslaught of spammy holiday cards ushered out a 2010 that saw spam, for the first time ever, in decline. Meanwhile, the DoD warned about foreign governments stealing military technology, while researchers warned that application sandboxes might not be so safe to play in, after all. Read on for...

China Introduces New Laws to Combat Cyber Hacking

China is taking decisive action against computer hacking with a new law set to govern the sentencing of hackers and other internet offenders. This initiative, announced by the Ministry of Public Security, aims to enhance cybersecurity in response to the growing threat of cybercrime. Lawmakers are...

Indian hackers focus on botnet attacks

A new report released by computer giant Microsoft has revealed that the attack of 'botnets' on computers has increased in India. A botnet is a network of computers, controlled by one computer bot herder, which attacks another PC and makes it a part of its network. The report says that the Indian...

Tips for Diminishing Botnet Attacks

Online, the biggest battle these days is against botnets: networks of infected computers which hackers can use — unbeknownst to the machine’s owner — for online crimes including sending out spam or launching a denial of service attack. The black-hat techniques employed to snare users into a botne...

How to defend against botnet attacks

Botnets have become one of the more insidious threats on the Internet in the last few years. Large-scale botnets such as the Storm, Asprox and Nugache networks have caused tremendous problems by serving as platforms for spamming operations, DDoS attacks and other mischief. In this podcast from...

The Importance of Internet Identity and Anonymity

Last year, Craig Mundie issued a call to arms for a more “trustworthy Internet” — not that Microsoft has been entirely successful at implementing its arguably more humble Trustworthy Computing initiative. But let’s not let the computing industry’s failure to bring forward operating systems, web...

For MS06-0 of 4 0 of botnet attacks to reproduce jianghu-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

According to the ongoing track of the virus an anti-virus expert Introduction, In addition to targeting the MS06-0 4 0 the Windows Server service vulnerability, this latest round of virus attacks also make use of the Windows System of the other three worm holes. With the month of August to appear...