tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49772002320255214192024-09-05T14:59:25.669+05:30Focused in cyber security and associated literatureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977200232025521419.post-56552669567703774282013-01-03T20:01:00.002+05:302013-01-03T21:53:10.722+05:30

A new Remote Administration Tool has been discovered called PlugX which is a Remote Access Tool (RAT). It has also been named as Korplug. PlugX has been detected in targeted attacks not only against military, government or political organizations, but also against more or less ordinary companies. The attack starts with a phishing email containing a malicious attachment, usually an archived,

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"Kaspersky Security Bulletin" talks about Cyber-espionage or "hacktivism" and naton-state cyberattacks, apart from legal surveillance, cloud based network attacks, cyber extortion of individuals and companies. The mobile malware will start shaping the digital security landscape in the forthcoming years painting a different picture. This apart there is a surge in fake security certificates,

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The South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV) and Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University are organizing their Second International Conference from 11 to 13 January, 2013 at Kanyakumari, Chennai under the theme of  "REVISITING INTERPERSONAL CRIMES AND VICTIMIZATION" The key note speaker is Professor Vesna Nikolic

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Overview.  A new malware surfaced during August 2012 as reported by the various security agencies.  The malware has been  dubbed by the code name  "Shamoon". The attack is called "Shamoon", due to a filename i.e. string of a folder name within the malware executable called as Shamoon. ("C:\Shamoon\ArabianGulf\wiper\release\wiper.pdb").The spyware infects all the computers

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Understanding Bots as a technology has emerged as a critical skill in the information era. This article is focused in understanding Mariposa. Botnet Mariposa was reported by defense intelligence some time during May of 2009. Trend micro says that the worm has been in existence as early as December 2008. It is learnt that the reported botnet was named after the Spanish word for "

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Overview The Flame worm that has targeted computers in the Middle East is being called "the most sophisticated cyberweapon yet unleashed" by Kaspersky Lab researchers who discovered it The virus reportedly captures sensitive information through a variety of means — “sniffing” data sent across the Internet and internal networks, recording keystrokes, capturing screenshots while applications

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 Computer Security Day is an annual event that is observed worldwide. It is evident that the exponential increase in computing gadgets miss out on the aspects of the need for security. Security is an important consideration when working with computers, the Internet or indeed any electronic devices. The focus of security day is to create awareness on the aspects of security and

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Sality is a file-infecting virus that has been around for more than nine years. Sality has been ranked by Symantec as the number one malicious code family in 2010 by number of endpoint detections. It was apparently named after the Russian town of “Salavat City”, although the command and control servers are thought to be in the US, UK, and the Netherlands. It has been used to push spam, steal

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Zeus, often referred as Zbot is one of the popular crimeware  botnet typically engaged in data theft.  The term Zeus is used to refer to an entire family of trojans and their respective bot nets. It was reported by 2007. It installs a rootkit component to remain hidden on infected systems. It is learnt that it disables antivirus and security software in an effort to disguise

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The Internet has made it easier to perpetrate crimes by providing criminals an avenue for launching attacks with relative anonymity. It is evident that  illegal activities are more often buried into large volumes of data which calls for extensive analysis in order to detect crimes and collect evidence. Most of the time the investigations are of cross-border in nature, requiring

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Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) has been estimated to grow faster than other technologies. APT is a a part of the classified category of cyber crime directed at  business at large and / or political targets. They are built with a high degree of stealithiness over a prolonged duration of operation in order to be successful. APTs are built with a fixed goal of remaining invisible as

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The Domain Name System (DNS), has been defined by RFCs 1034 and 1035. It is a  hierarchical, and distributed database used for providing a service to resolve names for various Internet applications. A zone as understood by everybody is a collection of nodes, forming a contiguous tree structure, with  the start of authority, or SOA. The purpose of SOA is to delegate the naming

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The largest internet cyber sting operation taken by FBI was named as Ghost click. Since 2007, a group of cyber group had deployed a special class of malware called DNSChanger. It is understood that the FBI had arrested six Estonians accused of running a botnet that controlled more than 4 million computers in 100 countries equating  the infections to approximately 4 million computers.

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The birth of struxnet has opened up an New era of  discussions in the security community. Since its discovery earlier this year, the sophisticated Stuxnet worm has infected at least 15 industrial plants in a variety of countries. Security experts have universally accepted that the the worm had the ability to target a  specific computer and inflict damage to controls equipment at

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Stuxnet, the first military-grade cyberweapon known to the world.  Stuxnet was believed to have been released in late 2009 and millions of computers were infected as the worm though there are other references which claim that it was release as early as 2007. Stuxnet was designed to cripple control systems. The list of modules built as a part of Struxnet provide different kinds of

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Enisa has come up with a statement that Stuxnet is a specialized malware targeting SCADA systems running Siemens SIMATIC® WinCC or SIMATIC® Siemens STEP 7 software for process visualization and system control.  The software consists of a series of software block, which are combined into a project.Some of the blocks include Function blocks, Operational blocks, and Data blocks. These

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Cyber threat to national economy is an emerging menace. Countries world wide have started realizing this and have taken their stand. What was once a war on the land is getting shadowed as history.  The new sophisticated warfare has opted for cyber weapons as their gadgets. For example the same blog has mentioned about Federal Trojan and its capabilities. The Trojan was used to intercept

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An interesting phenomenon is emerging across the business verticals. A care full eye would definitely observe this shift. Customer perceptions has paved the way for the observed shift. It is essential to understand a couple of scenarios. A paradigm change in underway to handle customer. The concept of picking and handing over the goods has vanished and the customer is allowed to pick and

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Big-data is painting the data canvas with novel techniques and methods to handle new forms of business built on predictive intelligence. Going by the statement”Nothing is free in this world” organizations provide certain e-services to capitalize on the fact that  if a customer is not paying for service, then he is the product who can be used to leverage the existing business. Customers

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Federal Trojan aka R2D2 is considered to be one of the SKYPE interceptors as understood from the register. This trojon is also called by other names "0zapftis" or "Bundestrojaner",This trojan has the capability of running on 32 bit systems; with support for 64 bit versions of Windows. The technology works via a local installation of malware on the clients computer. BOTs and Trojans are 

Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977200232025521419.post-87675975158370061772012-02-19T11:04:00.002+05:302013-01-03T19:46:39.167+05:30

Organizations are dependent on Information technology, They are forced to collect information as a part of their day to day electronic transactions. Such collected information silos are scattered across various cooperating and independent organizations. Management models have evolved into collaborative business models leading to a win win for member or partners of the coalition. Such

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Digital data explosion is beyond control as evident from the digital data being pumped into the digital world without relevance. The data so generated calls for special techniques, to manage and distill the essence out of it. Data follows the data lifecycle. In a larger parlance data co-exist  in a digital world and is a part of digital ecosystem. The digital ecosystem is still at its

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Information technology (IT) is today woven into our daily life. In a globalized economy, business life without informational technology driven applications would be impossible transforming information technology as a commodity. From a niche market, information technology has evolved into a commodity market. In order to sustain, information technology is envisaged to create value.  Today

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Shopping habits reveal even the most personal information.  All major retailer vendors from investment banks, to sim card vendors, to grocery chains, bankers today is moving with a “predictive analytics” department specialized to comprehend the consumers’ shopping habits including their personal habits, to customize their marketing methods. For example Target a retail unit was able to

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A log as understood is a record of the events occurring within a given organization’s systems and networks when viewed from a system perspective. They are composed of log entries where, each entry is composed of information pertaining to a specific event that has occurred within a system or network.  Having matured from a journal today logs contain information related to different types of

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