Germany Launches Cyber Defense Center

Germany launched a national cyber defense center whose primary task will be to protect critical computer infrastructure from cyber attacks. The Nationale Cyber-Abwehrzentrum (National Cyber-Defense Center) is based in Bonn in the same building as the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). For now, it has ten permanent employees and represents a joint effort between …

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Bank machine that sniffs out credit fraud

MOSCOW – Russia’s biggest retail bank is testing something that the old K.G.B. might have loved, an automated teller machine with a built-in lie detector intended to prevent consumer credit fraud. New customers could talk to the machine to apply for a credit card, with no human intervention required on the bank’s end. The machine …

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LulzSec discloses 62,000+ random login credentials

LulzSec rampages on. They claimed they took out cia.gov for a couple of hours tonight, but its difficult to say whether they really did it or whether the site was made unavailable because of a large number of people trying to access it after seeing the “Tango down – cia.gov – for the lulz” message on …

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How Does AntiVirus Work

The Antivirus is a Software that detect harmful Software’s or programs  like Computer Virus, Computer Worms, Trojan Horses, Spyware, Ad-ware. Antivirus are one of the most important part of a computer and save us from many dangers every day. But the Question arises that how do they work? The Antivirus Work in two main Ways: Signature …

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Modern freaking: pull phone numbers from YouTube audio

[Charlie X-Ray] is having some modern fun with the phone system by pulling dialed numbers from the audio track of YouTube videos (translated). The first step was to find a video where a telephone is being dialed and the sounds of the keypresses are audible. You can’t tell those tones apart, but a computer can. That’s because …

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Sep
06

Facebook adds hacker tracker tool

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3 Sep 2010

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/360865/facebook-adds-hacker-tracker-tool

Facebook says it has improved its security with a remote log-in management tool that should help users tell if their accounts have been hacked.

The primary use for the new tool, currently being rolled out and available via the Account Security section of Account Settings, will be as a remote log-out facility for people that have forgotten to sign off when they have been using a public or friend’s computer.

However, Facebook said the tool would also be useful in monitoring accounts if they had been hacked and give users the option to kick the hackers out of their accounts and change the password.

“If someone accesses your account without your permission, you can shut down the unauthorised login before resetting your password and taking other steps to secure your account and computer,” the company said on the Facebook blog.

Within the tool, Facebook said, “you’ll see all of your active sessions along with information about each one. That information includes the log-in time, device name if you’ve previously named it through our log-in notifications feature, the approximate location of the log in based on IP address, and browser and operating system.”

Critics have claimed the new tool will only be used by the technically savvy, leaving the majority of users no better off.

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Aug
03

UAE, Saudi Arabia Might Ban BlackBerry Services :: Will it be banned in India too?

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Looks like the dark times for RIM and BlackBerry are showing no signs of respite. The TRA (Telecommunications Regulatory Authority) of the UAE, which regulates the telecom industry in the country is contemplating a ban on the e-mail, web browsing and messaging services on BlackBerry smartphones starting October 2010.

The ban, according to officials from UAE, will be issued in public interest. According to them, the current security protocols used in BlackBerry services makes the users of such services to act without any legal accountability, causing judicial, social and national-security concerns .

If you were unaware, unlike most normal phones, any BlackBerry device encrypts data sent using it first through its servers in Canada before it ends up where you intend to send it. This basically means that UAE cannot monitor what is being sent via BlackBerry phones in the country unless Canada and RIM somehow allows access to its data center. RIM was reportedly offered an alternative to open its own server within the UAE which the company rejected. This is believed to be the reason behind the plans to ban the entire bunch of BlackBerry services in the country.

Incidentally, UAE is not the only country that is contemplating a ban or imposing similar measures on RIM. India and now, even Saudi Arabia are talking tough regarding BlackBerry and its servers.

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Jun
22

Russian Spies used Wi-Fi and Steganography

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Some of the details are beginning to emerge about the 10 Russian spies that were captured in the US. According to an article on The Register, the spies communicated with Ad-Hoc Wi-Fi networks and hid messages in pictures using Steganography.

FBI agents monitored 28 year old Russian spy Anna Chapman as she communicated with a Russian government official. Anna would go to a book store and using her laptop, created an Ad-Hoc Wi-Fi connection to a Russian contact who was outside the store:

Surveillance agents nearby used “a commercially available tool that can detect the presence of wireless networks” to witness the creation of the ad hoc networks. NetStumbler is probably the most popular example of such software. Law enforcement agents were able to detect a particular MAC address – MAC address A – at the time that Chapman was observed powering on her laptop computer,” the complaint says. Law enforcement agents were also able to determine that the electronic device associated with MAC address A created the ad hoc network.”

The spies also embedded secret messages in pictures and uploaded them to sites where Russian officials retrieved them, and decoded the messages.

A New Jersey search uncovered a network of websites, from which the alleged spies had downloaded images. “These images appear wholly unremarkable to the naked eye,” the complaint explains. “But these images (and others) have been analyzed using the steganography program. As a result of this analysis, some of the images have been revealed as containing readable text files.”

It is interesting to see the tactics used by modern spies. Of course Russia is denying any and all involvement. Kudos to the FBI for taking them down.

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