Category: Security
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Big Brother
Hamas Leader, Mahmoud Al Mabhouh was assassinated in Dubai. As the Dubai police struggled to figure out the culprits a series of correspondence between employees of a company called Stratfor was busy going to and forth on the same subject. Fred Burton wrote: Forensically, you start on the hotel tapes from the floor of the murder and walk the…
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An Ad for Digital Security
Sums it up quite nicely.
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Experience of a cyber victim
This is the true story of how Mat Honan, a journalist who has written for several publications (notably Wired and Gizmodo), was hacked by a random hacker. His digital life was completely burned down to cyber dust by an unknown hacker. He went on to figure out how the hacker did the task and then published…
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Banking Trojan
Trojans are piece of malicious code disguised as an innocent looking freeware. There are several kinds of trojans and the one that is making its way around the cyberworld today is one known as SpyEye – a banking trojan. A banking trojan like Zeus or SpyEye employs a technique known as the “man in the…