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Cyber Criminals took over billion dollar of Brazilian companies PricewaterhouseCoopers has revealed in a report that cyber criminals are now shifting their attacks towards emerging markets, especially those engaging with carbon emission trades which promote low carbon technologies but whose security measures have not yet grown to combat online attacks. In Brazil, 8% of the companies under attack of Cyber Criminals and had losses above $ 1 billion of Brazilian companies. A recent survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) finding that over one third of Brazilian companies (32%) was the victim of cybercrime last year. The world average is lower, 23% of companies have been targets of cyber attacks in 2011. More than half of Brazilian executives (51%) explained that one of the biggest problems related to awareness and combat electronic crime is the fact that management of their companies adopted only informally or on an ad hoc solutions and security processes. Cyber criminal...

The Killswitch : They can remotely modify your Window 8 Last year,a Finnish software developer, was cruising Google's Android Market for smartphone apps last year when he noticed something strange. Dozens of best-selling applications suddenly listed the same wrong publisher. Google uses a little known kill switch, to forcibly removing the malicious code from more than 250,000 infected Android smartphones. It's a powerful way to stop threats that spread quickly, but it's also a privacy and security land mine. With the rollout of the Windows 8 operating system expected later this year, millions of desktop and laptop PCs will get kill switches for the first time. Microsoft has confirmed that they have remote kill switch installed in to Windows 8 apps. using this access, they can disable and even remove an app entirely from a user's device. This piece of information was released along with other details of the upcoming Windows Store for Windows 8. Anyone worried about Microso...

Interpol  #TangoDown , Suspected 25 Anonymous arrested Interpol's Web site (www.interpol.int) went down Tuesday just hours after the international police agency announced the arrest of 25 suspected members of the hacking collective Anonymous in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain. The authorities in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain carried out the arrests and seized 250 items of IT equipment and mobile phones, Interpol says.Those arrested are aged between 17 and 40. A National Police statement said two servers used by the group in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic had been blocked.It said the four included the alleged manager of Anonymous' computer operations in Spain and Latin America, who was identified only by his initials and the aliases " Thunder " and " Pacotron ". Authorities in Europe, North America and elsewhere have made dozens of arrests, and Anonymous has increasingly attacked law enforcement, military and intelligence-linked targets in retal...

$60000 for Exploiting Google Chrome, Hackers at Pwnium  work... Google has offered prizes, totalling $1 million, to those who successfully hack the Google Chrome browser at the Pwn2Own hacker contest taking place next week i.e 7 March 2012. Chrome is the only browser in the contest's six year history to not be exploited like at all.  Therefore Google will hand out prizes of $60,000, $40,000, and $20,000 for contestants able to remotely commandeer a fully-patched browser running on Windows 7. Finding a "Full Chrome Exploit," obtaining user account persistence using only bugs in the browser itself will net the $60k prize. Using webkits, flash, or a driver-based exploit can only earn the lesser amounts. Prizes will be awarded on a first-come-first-serve basis, until the entire $1 million has been claimed. " While we're proud of Chrome's leading track record in past competitions, the fact is that not receiving exploits means that it's harder to learn and imp...

Secunia PSI 3.0 : Automatic Patching Of Insecure Applications Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) is a free program that scans the system for programs that are installed in an outdated version.The developers have just released the first beta version of Secunia PSI 3.0 for Windows. A new version of the Personal Software Inspector (PSI) tool from vulnerability management firm Secunia automates the updating of third-party programs that don't already have auto-updaters built-in. When you start the program for the first time after installation, you are asked to run a scan on the system. Secunia compares the list of installed software with the latest versions stored in their database. A list of outdated programs are then displayed in the program interface. Though most software vendors release patches, its tedious for users to find these updates and download them, where Secunia inspector tool identifies vulnerable programs and plug-ins in your Computer, download and installs all t...