EC Council was reported to have been compromised by a hacker called Godzilla. Based on published materials it seems that the hacker got access to training course material of several certification programs. Looking into the published content by the hacker and analysing the screenshots shows that the server was hacked by the upload of the WSO web shell code The malicious shell was probably up...
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Microsoft has released the latest volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report today that provides a large body of new data and analysis on the threat landscape. Volume 14 focuses on what the threat landscape looked like in the second half of 2012, including trend data from previous periods. This volume of the report contains: Industry-wide vulnerability disclosure trends a...
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This year I am going to speak Microsoft Tech Ed’s again but this time with another dear friend our “Nextpert” Raymond Comvalius. (His blog :http://nextxpert.com/) So what are we going to cover in this major event ? As wee all know there was a debut in Windows Vista, but after Windows Vista, User Account Control (UAC) has had major improvements. But because of the “bad experience which “...
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If you are not aware , There is a new update to the powerful suit from Microsoft. If you know sysinternals then just download the tools set from here : or : http://download.sysinternals.com/files/SysinternalsSuite.zip If you are not aware of Sysinternals utilities then you were missing a lot. Below is a reference from Wikipedia . Windows Sysinternals is a part of the Microsoft TechNet websit...
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The presentations from Security Experts Hasain Alshakarti & Marcus Murray in their pre-con/workshop sessions “Defending your Microsoft infrastructure from cyber threats” at TechDays 2012 /13 in Belgium and the Netherlands are now available for download: If you have got a Microsoft Network, the session is a must watch one TechDays Sweden 2012 download:(219.3 MiB, 508) TechDays 2013 P...
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8 April 2013 is the date when the plug’s are going to pulled of from MSN messenger and where you are going to be diverted to SKYPE. I had few question from some friends on how they can get Skype or join they Skype ID’s with their MSN ID’s. Here are the step’s: IF YOU HAVE SKYPE installed in your device : Just log in to your skype account with your MSN / Microsoft ID and all good IF ...
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Dear Followers,
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StarterKit is devoted to those of you who would like to learn the basics of hacking, If you in...
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Today i came across a pop up which was looking like a “genuine flash update” but just after few seconds i have realized the pop up was basically aiming to get their Trojan installed in my PC :). ( which I did for testing, the results will be in one of my new posts , keep an eye in my blog)
I am sure they are many end users they will just fall in to this trick, and that’...
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Every single day more and more news are hitting the news. Adobe Acrobat Reader & Flash Player are used for targeted Phishing attacks. And the attackers used a zero day to launch those attacks,,, If you are using Acrobat Reader version 9.5.3 , 10.1.5 or 11.0.1 then you “might been” effected. Attackers are using “Zero Day” flows and did exploit those versions via a Phishing attack mainl...
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Windows 8 Security Improvements The Windows 8 operating system provides enterprise-grade security features that can protect devices and data from unauthorized access and threats like malware. Windows 8 builds on the strong security foundation in Windows 7 to provide groundbreaking malware resistance that can protect the client, data, and network by making the PC inherently secure and less vulnera...
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