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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 http://www.ehacking.net/  .The main objective of his blogging is create the security awareness among user's. 1.) Harvard University's Website -  http://news.harvard.edu 2.) EESL - Energy Efficiency Services Limited -  http://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...

" Anonymous ," the shadowy hacktivist group that's attacked PayPal, the record industry and the Church of Scientology, has upped the ante: It's now taking on entire countries. The group launched massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on at least eight Tunisian government websites beginning Sunday night, according to Al Jazeera and the Internet security company Sophos. As of 4 p.m. EST Monday, the official Tunisian government website, www.tunisia.gov.tn , was still offline. Last Thursday, Anonymous launched similar attacks against websites operated by the government of Zimbabwe. Both attacks are part of " Operation Payback ," Anonymous' long-running campaign against organizations it feels are threatening Internet freedoms. Tunisia and Zimbabwe had blocked their citizens' access to Wikileaks last month, after secret U.S. State Department cables unflattering to either country were revealed as part of Julian Assange's huge dip...

New Delhi:   With the growing diversity of operating systems among companies, and the increasing use of mobile devices, cyber criminals will put a new spin on social engineering by 'malware campaign' under which they will bombard recipients with email that drop virus downloaders.       According to an internet security software and service provider Trend Micro study on Threat Predictions for 2011, threat researchers have found that more than 80 per cent of the top malware use the web to arrive on users' systems and every second, 3.5 new threats are released by cyber criminals.       During current year, proof of concept attacks against cloud infrastructure and virtualised systems will emerge. Diversity of operating systems at the endpoints forces the cyber criminals to focus more on critical cloud services and server infrastructures. Further, the report noted that mid-sized companies will be targeted in cyber espionage. The growth ...

Two cybersecurity researchers have just taught smartphones a lesson by developing a program that can eavesdrop and steal text messages from any phone on a GSM network – all in about 20 seconds. The Guardian reported that Karsten Nohl and Sylvain Munaut spent a year honing their technology, which starts by sending a text message to a target phone; called a “ghost” message, the text doesn’t show up on the recipient’s phone, but enables the hackers to obtain the handset’s unique identification number. Once that identification number is stolen, Nohl and Munaut were able to record phone conversations and texts from the hijacked phone. Their proof-of-concept hack can be deployed on any phone running on a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) network. That’s a pretty big focus group – about 80 percent of the world’s phones run on a GSM network. “Any GSM call is fair game,” Nohl told the BBC. He and his partner in cybercrime demonstrated their data-grabbing technology at last w...