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Across the world, and particularly in India, using a credit card to shop online has always been fraught with danger, though you’re just as likely to have your card cloned when paying a bill at a restaurant. Visa Europe now tries to add a layer of security for all those who are paranoid / terrified [...]

It wasn’t a very pleasant feeling to log in to the blogosphere and twittersphere to find that WordPress was under attack. To be more precise, all blogs running self-hosted WordPress that weren’t up to date were facing a threat from hackers. The latest version is 2.8.4 and for your own sake, it is better you upgrade right away! Apparently, [...]

Logged into my HDFC Netbanking account and saw some changes there. Firstly, the earlier login screen has now been replaced by one where you first enter only your Customer Id. Once the bank verifies that, you are allowed to enter the password at the next screen. Once you fill in your customer id and password, [...]

The annual DefCon gathering of hackers has brought to light the fact that Google Gadgets can be hacked. These nifty little gadgets have become quite popular with people personalising their ”iGoogle” home pages using them to keep track of the time, stock prices, the weather, currency converters, news, task lists et al. SecTheory CEO Robert Hansen aka RSnake said, [...]

All the hype and hoopla surrounding the launch of Firefox 3 has hardly subsided, and there is already a security glitch. Firefox 3 was downloaded 8.3 million times within 24 hours of it’s release, a yet to be verified world record. Tipping Point, in it’s Zero Day Initiative upcoming advisory, have discovered the very first critical vulnerability in Firefox 3 [...]

If you’ve ever been in a situation where you lost / misplaced your laptop and despaired of ever getting it back again, you’d wish you had installed Locate Laptop on it.   Ok, so what is Locate Laptop?

Sophos, a world leader in threat management solutions, has published its Security Threat Report 2007, examining the threat landscape during the previous twelve months, and predicting malware and spam developments for 2007.