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[fbdata.torrent] 100 Million Facebook Users Data Leaked via Torrent to Download

[fbdata.torrent] 100 Million Facebook Users Data Leaked via Torrent to Download

ShareFacebook seems to have some serious security vulnerabilities that is yet to be patched. Today the Skull Security Team, has released a torrent file that consist of 100 million facebook users profile data. A security researcher on Wednesday released a file containing the names, profile addresses and unique identification numbers of more than 100 million Facebook users. The information was corralled [...]
Self-Destructing Email Account from BigString

Self-Destructing Email Account from BigString

ShareBigString provies you a free emailer service with some extras that you can find very useful to protect your online privacy and to ensure security while surfing across web forums and blogs. Email is the one that we use as a primary communication tool now a days than any other tools. Its more than a mobile phone to reach website visitors, clients across the world and so on. One of the major threat [...]
Stuxnet Malware in Windows PCs – Alert

Stuxnet Malware in Windows PCs – Alert

ShareWindows users face the new malware called stuxnet, which spreads through USB devices. According to the news provided by the Microsoft Malware Protection Center, this malware spreads mostly in Iran, Indonesia and India. As per MMPC’s news, the malware is made to spread through mail exchanges, game cheats and through some hackers sites. Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Forefront Client [...]
Spoofstick: Checks for the Fake or Fraudulent site

Spoofstick: Checks for the Fake or Fraudulent site

ShareSpoofstick is a web browser extension helps users to identify spoofed (fake or fraudulent) websites. It detects spoofed sites by prominently displaying the most relevant information. Extensions are available for IE and Firefox individually. “For example, if you’re on the following URL (this is a real, legitimate ebay url): http://signin.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll? SignIn&UsingSSL=0&pUserId=&ru=http%3A%2F% 2Fcontact.ebay.com%2Fws1%2FeBayISAPI.dll% 3FShowCoreAskSellerQuestion%26requested% 3Ddominicsmusic%26de%3Doff%26iid% 3D3711129021%26frm%3D284%26acceptcookie% 3D0%26loginconfirmed%3D0%26redirect%3D0% 26pass%3D%7B_pass_%7D%26userid%3D&pp=p ass&co_partnerid=2&pageType=711" Spoofstick [...]
Twitter Downtime and Bugs Likely to Continue

Twitter Downtime and Bugs Likely to Continue

Share Twitter is one of the mass Social Media Networking Website. Twitter is been having a rough month keeping the service stable. But for the past few weeks twitter is experiencing fail whales, errors, downtime and more. In a short blog post, it is said that “From a site stability and service outage perspective, it’s been Twitter’s worst month since last October”. In twitter’s [...]
Malicious Scripts infects U.S.Treasury websites

Malicious Scripts infects U.S.Treasury websites

ShareU.S. Department of Treasury websites three of them have been compromised to spread malware, scmagazineus.com has reported. Thompson said bep.gov, bep.treas.gov and moneyfactory.gov are affected. Roger Thompson, chief researcher officer of AVG, said the attackers injected a malicious IFRAME into the sites, causing visitors to unknowingly be redirected to a hacker-owned site in the Ukraine. The [...]
Turkish Hackers Defaced Hotmail in Israel

Turkish Hackers Defaced Hotmail in Israel

ShareMicrosoft’s email service Hotmail has been defaced by Israel Hackers in the name of TurkGuvenligi of Turksec. As per the report made by neowin.net, the site has been subject to DNS Hijack. This is not the first time Microsoft has suffered defacements of its web properties. In 2004 microsoft.com was defaced and in late 2008 Microsoft’s Irish website was also defaced by Turkish hackers. For [...]
Fake Youtube Pages Spreads Malware [Alert]

Fake Youtube Pages Spreads Malware [Alert]

ShareThousands of webservers have compromised users by hosting fake YouTube pages, eSoft Threat Prevention Team told. The fake YouTube attempts users to to play the video on these fake pages prompts the user to install a ‘media codec’ which then infects the machine with malware. Each page claims to have a “Hot Video” associated with anything from the Gulf Oil Spill to the NBA Playoffs.  [...]
South Korean Government Websites Faces Cyberattacks

South Korean Government Websites Faces Cyberattacks

ShareSouth Korean government websites two of them were hacked by Chinese hackers,the Ministry of Public Administration and Security told. But these websites faced no major damages.This is the second cyberattack faced by the South Korean government websites. Visit Startribune for more information
Pdf with Malicious Spam

Pdf with Malicious Spam

ShareF-Secure has reported a spam run pushing a PDF exploit. They have detected this threat as Exploit.PDF-Dropper.Gen with their Internet Security 2010. The PDF’s MD5 is cff871a36828866de1f42574be016bb8. If allowed to run, the exploit will drop an alureon/dnschanger trojan. See F-Secure for more
Hack Private Browsing in Internet Explorer and Firefox Web Browser

Hack Private Browsing in Internet Explorer and Firefox Web Browser

ShareInternet Explorer 8 and Firefox has private browsing option where one can hide their browsing history and cache. But still it is available for you in local DNS Cache. Here are the steps to find it. Goto cmd prompt Type “ipconfig/displaydns” without quotes( here you can see the last visited website used in Inprivate Browsing”) To clear it, type “ipconfig /flushdns” Have [...]
Websites Hosted at Godaddy Servers Got Hacked

Websites Hosted at Godaddy Servers Got Hacked

ShareWordPress running Web sites hosted on GoDaddy have been hacked once again. Just like the previous attack less than a month ago, criminals infected thousands of Web pages with malicious script that serve rogue Anti Virus. According to Sucuri Security, GoDaddy’s servers were hacked yesterday around 3p.m. EST, and thousands of WordPress blogs and other PHP based websites were malformed with [...]
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