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Twitter asks users to reset passwords, indicates a much larger Phishing scam in action

Wednesday, February 3, 2010
By gaurav bagdi
Twitter asks users to reset passwords, indicates a much larger Phishing scam in action

Twitter the Micro-Blogging Sensation on tuesday here asked an undisclosed number of users to change their passwords after the site discovered it had been attacked by a group of hackers using a rather non-conventional way to gain access to users information. As the popularity of such blogging sites are increasing like a speed of... »

Google Gives up Saga 2 : The Hidden Truth

Thursday, January 14, 2010
By gaurav bagdi
Google Gives up Saga 2 : The Hidden Truth

Well the blunt picture is now becoming more and more vivid as the time passes by and also giving us a many of the reasons to support the Google’s protesting or walk out of china due to rude and communist policies of Chinese Government. The name i chose for the post is quite glorifying... »

Hacker claims to have cracked the GSM mobile encryption code

Tuesday, December 29, 2009
By gaurav bagdi
Hacker claims to have cracked the GSM mobile encryption code

Okay, so this is what we have come to. A hacker with a Doctorate in Computer Sciences claimed to have broken the security parameters which actually safeguard almost all the cellphone calls potentially giving a loophole to an attacker to drop into anyone’s conversation. This sounds Freaky – A German hacker claims to have cracked... »

Ddos attack hits major Ecommerce sites

Sunday, December 27, 2009
By gaurav bagdi
Ddos attack hits major Ecommerce sites

Happy Holidays to you, wait a minute. Are you the one who was unable to place an order for your son from amazon.com the christmas eve for at least a couple of hours due to something really unhealthy. Well, if is it for real than you were not the only one cursing Amazon... »

Hackers hacked and published Confidential Climate Research Unit’s Data

Sunday, November 22, 2009
By gaurav bagdi
Hackers hacked and published Confidential Climate Research Unit’s Data

Okay, so where the people are really worrying and thinking about the Climate Change and Global Warming the same time Hackers sneaked into the Email Accounts of World’s leading climate research units . The UK-based Hadley Climate Research Unit (CRU), at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, is reported to have sufferered a... »

first iPhone worm, Harmless but Annoying

Sunday, November 8, 2009
By gaurav bagdi
first iPhone worm, Harmless but Annoying

The first worm affecting only Jail Broken iPhones has been discovered and affecting the users in Australia however the coder behind the word clarifies the motive behind its creation and also want users to emphasis on RTFM?, first. Well is this a co-incidence or what. Like a last month or so, we guys were discussing about... »

Mozilla Blocks Microsoft’s insecure .Net add-ons

Monday, October 19, 2009
By gaurav bagdi
Mozilla Blocks Microsoft’s insecure .Net add-ons

Mozilla on Friday disabled a Microsoft plug-in for Firefox called the .Net Framework Assistant because of a security problem–then scrambled to give people with patched systems an override option. I don’t find it strange if you use FireFox,you may have already seen a pop-up from your browser alerting you that it is blocking the Microsoft... »

Adobe Reader 9.2 and Acrobat 9.2 out, containing 29 security Fixes

Thursday, October 15, 2009
By gaurav bagdi
Adobe Reader 9.2 and Acrobat 9.2 out, containing 29 security Fixes

Adobe addressed a list of 29 security-related flaws in Acrobat 9 and Adobe Reader 9 this week. The new 9.2 updater fixes security issues that Adobe calls critical for both Mac and Windows users. As usual, Adobe’s software have a wider range of users and broader distribution around has always been a popular target for... »

100 suspects charged, courtesy Operation “Phish Phry”

Thursday, October 8, 2009
By gaurav bagdi
100 suspects charged, courtesy Operation “Phish Phry”

United States and Egyptian authorities began rounding up 100 suspects indicted in connection with a two-year investigation dubbed “Operation Phish Phry.” Law enforcement authorities in California, Nevada and North Carolina arrested 33 people Wednesday as part of an international crackdown on “phishing,” e-mail scams that trick people into giving personal and financial data to counterfeit... »

More than 10,000 Hotmail account passwords posted online

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
By gaurav bagdi
More than 10,000 Hotmail account passwords posted online

Microsoft today confirmed that thousands of Windows Live Hotmail account usernames and passwords had leaked to the Internet, but said the credentials were “likely” stolen in a phishing attack. Once i heard about this, i was like WTF? i immediately changed my Windows Live Account information and the passwords. I am like, using windows live... »

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Rumor Has It : Microsoft to Unveil Windows Mobile 7 in Barcelona

By gaurav bagdi

Microsoft is holding a press conference on Monday (Feb. 15) afternoon and the rumors have the company launching the newly updated windows mobile 7... »

Apple unveiled the tablet, calls it “iPad”

By gaurav bagdi

Okay the official words are out, it ain’t iSlate. The new sensation from apple is now “iPad” !! well, don’t wonder why we used... »

First tweet from space, Larger than Life?

By gaurav bagdi

Friday morning, an astronaut designated in the space as of now tweeted from the newly deployed crew support LAN system in the international space... »

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