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Articles on Cyber Security

Lets discuss about live booting/ Live CD, Live cd is a Cd/ Dvd or any other portable media containing bootable Operating system. These media have the unique ability to run operating system without altering the files and operating system installed on the hard disk of the pc.

Nikhil Kolbekar, aka HellsAngel, was arrested on July 11 in Mumbai, India. Eric Bogle, known as Swat Runs Train, and Justin Mills, or xTGxKAKAROT, were taken into custody in Canada, respectively Colorado, US. HellsAngel and Bogle is suspected of selling complete credit card details, including names, addresses, social security numbers, birth dates, and bank account information. He also sold remote desktop protocol (RDP) access data that could be utilized to breach computers in countries such as Turkey, India, Czech Republic, Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and others.

Which of the following is often one of the most overlooked areas of security: operational, technical, Internet, or physical? What is the name for a person who follows an employee through a locked door without own badge or key: tailgater, follower, visitor, or guest? Which application will help identify whether a website is vulnerable to SQL injection attacks: BlackWidow, Metasploit, Scrawlr, or SQL Block? What is the easiest method to get a password: brute-force cracking, guessing, dictionary attack, or hybrid attack?

Now a Days, where Technology is Boosting up; Do you think that “HACKERS” are the people who make illegal activities? It is the perception where, Reality is far away from this statement that Hackers and Crackers are not different from each other in their working strategies. In the real world, Hacker is the one who have great Technical knowledge and expertise. However, the major difference between a “Hacker” or a “Cracker” is 'ETHICS'.

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” said Confucius. These would be the words that describe Marius Corîci the most. In 2003 he started doing business in the plumbing industry and co-founded ITS Group, a franchise for Romstal Company, the biggest plumbing installations retailer from South-Eastern Europe. In 2007 he moved into Artificial Intelligence field and founded Intelligentics, a group for Natural Language Processing.

Four months after the gaming site Gamigo warned users about a hacker intrusion that accessed some portions of its users’ credentials, more than 8 million usernames, emails and and encrypted passwordsfrom the site have been published on the Web, according to the data breach alert service PwnedList.

This Sunday, The Capital , New Delhi plays host to an International The Hackers Conference where blackhat hackers will discuss the challenges of cyber safety with security agencies.

Your smartphone is an always-on and always-connected digital extension of your life which will be used by attackers to covertly steal your sensitive data and spy on you. Mahesh Rakheja , An Independent Security Researchers and Android Developer/Hacker will demonstrate "Android Spy Agent".

A scientist working at the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran said computer systems have been hit by a cyber-attack which forced them to play AC/DC’s Thunderstruck at full volume in the middle of the night.

The attack came to light after a researcher at security firm F-Secure received a string of emails from a Iran's atomic energy organisation."I am writing you to inform you that our nuclear program has once again been compromised and attacked by a new worm with exploits which have shut down our automation network at Natanz and another facility Fordo near Qom."

As many as 80,000 cyber crime related complaints have been registered with police in Kerala in the last one year, of which 50,000 relate to harassment of women through new hi-tech devices, Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan said here today. He told reporters here that the number of cyber crimes are on the increase in the state with 80,000 complaints lodged in the last one year, 50,000 relating to women alone. Most victms of these crimes were teenaged girls and women, he said, adding there was a nefarious attempt to trap young girls to indulge in wrongdoing.

In a move to make photo viewing more enjoyable on Facebook, the social networking giant has announced launching a re-designed version of its photos section.

"We are announcing improvements to the photos section that make viewing photos more enjoyable," Facebook Product Manager Emily Grewal announced on the company's website yesterday.

With this move, users would be able to access photos all at one place above the timeline. Earlier Facebook's users could view photos segregated into albums.