Researchers at The Univerisity of Maryland recently completed a study in which four Linux servers were set out as bait to see the frequency of attacks.They found out that there were 269,262 attempts in a 24-day period (ref: http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=117302). Michel Cukier, a professor of the University of Maryland led the study on the most frequently-used […]
Posted on October 5th, 2007 by Ita
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Malware, Spyware, Adware…
Internet was already threatened by these bits and bytes terrorists, now comes Bin Laden - Ransomware!
Ransomware is a malware used for an extortion crime. An innocent looking email, your favorite playmate sites and torrent sites are some of the doors through which these malware enter your PC. Some of the popular Trojans […]
Posted on July 20th, 2007 by thirdeye
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Fox under Sheep hood
I hope everyone has heard the story of fox under sheep hood in primary school, where fox wears a sheep skin to mingle among sheep and eat them without any suspicion. Well, same is the case with Googlebot disguise mechanism. But before getting into technical stuff, lets just look into WHY we […]
Posted on July 11th, 2007 by thirdeye
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Computer spies very cooly and suavely break security areas of users who are not aware of such happenings. A new bug has hit the computing world - SPYWARES. As if viruses, spam emails, phishing were not enough to cause millions of dollars of loss, this new breed of security attack evolved. Spyware has grown from […]
Posted on July 9th, 2007 by thirdeye
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In these days of high bandwidth connections, it is needless to say that hardening your computer from hackers is most important. In this blog, I will try to explain about network ports, their types and steps to securing your computer from being accessed by hackers through those ports.
What is a port?
To explain what a […]
Posted on July 6th, 2007 by Niraj Shrestha
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