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Some versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system are vulnerable to attack from hackers exploiting a flaw in the software that could allow them to remotely take control of a personal computer. The software giant warned of the problem in a special alert. It said it has yet to develop software to plug the hole in Windows or to figure out a workaround to the problem. Microsoft said it is not aware of any attacks that tried to use the vulnerability, which involves the way Windows renders graphics on versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. The problem does not affect Microsoft's most-recent PC operating system, Windows 7, and its newest operating system for servers, Windows Server 2008 R2.

Deal with undisclosed terms part of computer maker's ongoing effort to expand, improve information technology, cloud computing offerings. Dell Inc. was hunting for the right computer security company to buy, and on Tuesday, it announced its choice. Dell will buy Atlanta-based SecureWorks Inc. , which has about 3,000 clients and does business in 70 countries worldwide. No purchase price was announced, but SecureWorks had more than $120 million in annual revenue selling security services, software and risk-assessment services for large and small businesses and government agencies. Peter Altabef, president of Dell's $8 billion services business, spared few superlatives in talking about SecureWorks. "It is a wonderful acquisition for us, and it is very strategic," he said. "This was one of the most important strategic efforts that I had under way." SecureWorks gives Dell its own highly regarded data security service to offer to customers, Altabef said. The mo...

The Kerala Government has announced the launch of the Computer Emergency Response Team, Kerala ( CERT-K ) as the nodal agency for monitoring various cyber security related incidents in the State. Chief Minister Shri V S Achuthanandan formally announced the launch of operations today. The agency will function under the Department of Information Technology, Government of Kerala. It was in April 2010 that the Government set up CERT-K in line with the Indian CERT ( CERT-In ), the national nodal agency, to develop expertise in Government and Government Agencies in Kerala for handling cyber attacks and for preparing adequate sectoral contingency plans for handling crisis that may happen due to cyber attack or cyber terrorism. CERT-K will be the state Computer Emergency Response Team for Kerala, operating on behalf and in conjunction with CERT-In. CERT-K will coordinate security efforts and incident response for IT security problems as well as emerging telecom security problems on a stat...

ESET, a security solution provider for viruses and malicious software, has released its cyber-threat report for 2011, predicting that attacks on Facebook and other social networks will increase over the coming year. The report prepared by specialists and searchers in the business also says the mentioned attacks' main purpose will be to steal data, also known as 'phishing' Attacks on Facebook and other social networks are likely to increase over the coming year, according to a report from ESET, an IT security company, on possible threat trends for 2011. Social media will be a focus for social engineering attacks such as those already commonly experienced by users of Facebook and Google, according to ESET's new San Diego-based Cyber Threat Analysis Center, or CTAC. Furthermore, it is likely there will be an increasing volume of attacks on other social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Orkut and Twitter, as well as other search engines such as Bing and Yahoo, the research...

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 5 (IANS) The cyber wing of the Kerala Police Wednesday claimed it had got vital clues about the theft of software source codes and intellectual property data from a Kochi-based IT company. The investigation is progressing on the right track, V.K. Ajith Mohan of the police cyber wing who heads the probe, told IANS. The probe was launched November 2010 following a complaint filed by Stephen Antony, chief executive director of Rabboni Convergence Technologies Research and Development Private Limited. Antony claimed in his petition to Director General of Police Jacob Punnoose that two of his employees colluded with a person from Mumbai - Dominic Thomas - to steal the company's source code, algorithms and the software architecture and passed it on to a US-based IT firm. 'We have questioned four people, including two company employees, besides Dominic Thomas and also Anto George, a software professional from Bangalore, Mohan said Wednesday. The cyber ...

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) – Federal police are investigating an apparent hacker attack on the website of Brazil's president, just a day after President Dilma Rousseff took office, officials told local media Tuesday. The attack on Sunday was being investigated by the Federal Data Processing Service (Serpro), according to official sources cited by G1 news and Agencia Folha. " The federal police will investigate anyone responsible for attempts to block the security of the president's office, " Serpro's spokesman Carlos Marcos Torres told G1. A group calling itself the "Fatal Error Crew" took credit for the apparent attack in a Twitter posting. Serpro said there was an intentional flood of attempts to access presidencia.gov and brasil.gov, which knocked the sites out of service for a few hours. In April, the ruling Workers Party had its website knocked out by a hacker for 24 hours.

Srinagar: A Nigerian national is under the scanner of Jammu and Kashmir Police while four other persons have been arrested in the first case of cyber bank fraud in the Kashmir Valley. Four persons, including two residents of Mumbai, were arrested last week in connection with a case of bank fraud caused by cyber hacking, in which Rs 3.25 lakh were swindled from three accounts in Kashmir. "It is the first case of its kind in the Valley. The first cyber related bank fraud case carried out in Kashmir by using tampered credit cards which are cloned and linked," said Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Srinagar, Ashiq Bukhari. The case could lead to a breakthrough in busting a "huge nexus involved in bank frauds across the country or may be outside the country," he said. On December 30, police received a complaint from a local jeweller that a "fraudulent" digital transaction worth Rs 1.35 lakh had been made from his shop. "Investigation revealed that a l...

Irfan Shakeel has found xss vulnerability in EESL and Harvard University's Website ! Who is Irfan Shakeel ? Well , Irfan Shakeel ,is a telecommunication engineer from Pakistan, He is a White hat Hacker. He is working as a security researcher for a while. His blog at https://www.ehacking.net/  .The main objective of his blogging is create the security awareness among user's. 1.) Harvard University's Website -  https://news.harvard.edu 2.) EESL - Energy Efficiency Services Limited -  https://www.eesl.co.in

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The Indian Institutes of Management on Monday dismantled the web portal of their Common Admission Test (CAT) amid fears that some students managed to access their results in the 2010 CAT through the website ten days before schedule. The IIMs dismissed speculation that the CAT website " www.catiim.in " had been hacked, but admitted late tonight that they had made the portal dysfunctional to prevent any chance of students accessing results ahead of schedule. The results are scheduled to be released on January 12. "Our website has not been hacked. We have voluntarily made the website dysfunctional," 2010 CAT convenor and IIM Lucknow professor Himanshu Rai told HT. But Rai conceded that some students could have accessed results over a brief period between last night and today morning. "We yesterday started the process of testing out the process of uploading results. If during the period we were testing, someone put in their details, they may have accessed some result details," Rai a...