[7 Sep 2008 | 9 Comments | ]

Bluetooth technology is great. No doubt. It provides an easy way for a wide range of mobile devices to communicate with each other without the need for cables or wires. However, despite its obvious benefits, it can also be a potential threat for the privacy and security of Bluetooth users (remember Paris Hilton?).

[6 Sep 2008 | One Comment | ]

This is not a joke. If you are using Google Chrome then it is very easy for a malicious attacker to get the Remote Access of your Computer.
Less than a week after the release of Google (NSDQ:GOOG)’s new Web browser Chrome, security researchers detected a buffer overflow vulnerability that could enable remote attackers to completely take control of a user’s computer.
The detected buffer overflow vulnerability, deemed critical by security experts, is the result of a boundary error in the handling of the “Save As” function. If a user saves a …

[6 Sep 2008 | 7 Comments | ]

Ok, news is old, Google has released a new browser and all the web is blogging about it. But my duties are to talk about security so I’m not going to review Google Chrome’s features but to list the vulnerabilities already found after only 16 hours from the release. (I fear this post will be outdated in few Hours)

Rishi Narang has been the first. A Denial Of Service simple as pie:
Just browse this page and place your mouse over this link (make sure you bookmark this page if you want …

[31 Aug 2008 | 7 Comments | ]

Hello Friends, this Tutorial is for all those who want to delete some files but they cannot delete them due to some reasons.  Well this is a Full Proof way of deleting any Damn File. After Deleting the File in this way there won’t be any trace of that File on your computer.
Beware : Make sure that the file you are Deleting is not a System File.

Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open.
Close all open programs.
Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE
Go to the Processes tab and End Process …

[28 Aug 2008 | 2 Comments | ]

SAN FRANCISCO: NASA confirmed that a computer virus sneaked aboard the International Space Station only to be tossed into quarantine on July 25 by security software.
A “worm type” virus was found on laptop computers that astronauts use to send and receive email from the station by relaying messages through a mission control center in Texas, according to NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries on Wednesday.
The virus is reported to be malicious software that logs keystrokes in order to steal passwords or other sensitive data by sending the information to hackers via the …

[19 Aug 2008 | 204 Comments | ]

A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers’ conference in Las Vegas.
Last week Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and use it for every action involving Gmail, and not only, authentication. Users who did not turn it on now have a serious reason to do so as Mike Perry, the reverse engineer from San Francisco who developed the tool is planning to release it in two weeks.
When …

[15 Aug 2008 | 5 Comments | ]

This is really very easy one but very effective one. Enjoy it!
First, create a shortcut on your desktop by right-clicking on the desktop, choosing New, and then choosing Shortcut. The Create Shortcut Wizard appears. In the box asking for the location of the shortcut, type shutdown. After you create the shortcut, double-clicking on it will shut down your PC.
But you can do much more with a shutdown shortcut than merely shut down your PC. You can add any combination of several switches to do extra duty, like this:
shutdown -r -t …