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Articles on Cyber Security

Sedulity Groups | Anonymous hackers take down MTNL website

New Delhi: A hacking group said it attacked the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) website, accusing the company of censoring content on the Internet.
The corporate website of MTNL, which caters to the major Indian cities of New Delhi and Mumbai, was down for at least six hours. A post on hacking group Anonymous India's blog said the company was attacked because it had blocked several file sharing websites.

But MTNL officials denied any knowledge of an attack.

Sedulity Groups | Important Security tips for Internet Computer Users

Whenever we talk about the Cyber Security, we should always remember that precaution is the best countermeasure, however there are few countermeasures which should be followed by every computer user in order secure themselves from the professional crackers while using computers and internet. The countermeasures are mentioned as follows;

Always make sure that your Password is Alpha Numeric (i.e. combination of both letters & numbers and also use some special characters if you can).

Always keep your Password length of minimum 8 characters.

Sedulity Groups | 10000 Twitter User oauth token hacked and Exposed by Anonymous

Anonymous Hackers, with Twitter account "LulzsecReborn" Hack into TweetGif (http://tweetgif.com) and Hack complete Database, Later they publish that on Internet also. TweetGif is a website which allow you to use animated GIF image as your twitter picture.

LulzSec Reborn, a 3.0 version of the earlier LulzSec, has leaked 10,000 Twitter profiles’ passwords, Usernames, real names, locations, bios, avatars and secret tokens used to authenticate their accounts.
Pastebin message posted: The leaked data was uploaded to embed upload and contains a 4 MB SQL file with all the users details.

Sedulity Groups | Serious Mysql Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

serious security bug in MariaDB and MySQL Disclosed, According to Advisory All MariaDB and MySQL versions up to 5.1.61, 5.2.11, 5.3.5, 5.5.22 are vulnerable. This issue got assigned an id CVE-2012-2122.

Sedulity Groups | E-Mail, an important source of Communication

In today’s electronic world, E-Mail is critical to any business being competitive. In most cases it now forms the backbone of most organizations’ day-to-day activities, and its use will continue to grow. E-Mails have enabled an efficient means of communication, without the limitations of time zones, speed or cost, usually associated with many of the other forms of communication. Though it has lot of advantages, however; E-Mails can easily be used for the negative purposes as well, making SPAM and virus E-Mails a problem especially by the hackers.