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CBI.s Cyberwar Credibility Gap
It is been three weeks since the so-called Pakistan Cyber Army has hacked into the prestigious Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) website. The CBI website is still inactive and you…
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Germany plans news cyber-warfare defence centre
Germany will create a new cyber-warfare defence centre next year to fight off espionage attacks, the German interior ministry said. "We plan to create a so-called 'National Cyber-Defence Centre' in…
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New phishing trends
Phishing attacks are getting sophasticated everytime. Recently, phishers become very creative in detection mechanisms. In a recent attack phishers modified the .htaccess file to deny access from specific IP addresses…
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Money Mules
In the recent days, we have seen many emails claiming to be from your bank and asking you to provide the user name, password, ATM Number PIN etc... First of…
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Phishing in the middle eastern banks are on rise
Image via WikipediaRecently I was noticing an increase in the phishing emails targeted to the Banks in Kuwait. This was very low in the past years, as low as only…
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Drive-By Pharming
Sid Stamm, Zulfikar Ramzan, and Markus Jakobsson have identified a clever, and potentially devastating, attack against home/wireless routers. How does the attack works? Attacker creates a webpage with containing the…
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Trusted Phishing
I have seen many sites using a logo, provided by the security certificate vendor, be it VeriSign, Thawte or any for that matter. Most of the people trust this logo…
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Phishing . attacks and countermeasures
What is Phishing? Phishing is the art of stealing the idnetity of an individual and obtaining confidential information by the attacker. Surveys and studies reveals that the direct financial loss…