Share this: For as low as $150 you can get the credentials for an email account. Hackers in some advert claim the work to be done in 1-7 days with proof. That’s how cheap and easy it has become to get business email compromised. There is significant growth in what is increasingly getting popular as ‘Whaling’ […]
Increasing Phishing attacks in India
Share this: Phishing is on the rise in the country. India is among the top 4 countries in the world for Phishing attacks and not only that it also one of the top holding countries for such attacks. In the recent years with the venturing of sophisticated methodology to morph individuals using social engineering, phishing attacks […]
Latest DNS Spoofing attacks use fragmented datagrams. Can you avoid it?
Share this: With a little attention, as it turns out, one can spoof fake DNS responses using fragmented datagrams. How is it done? To match authentic DNS responses to their corresponding queries, resolvers and operating system check: Name of the query Type of the query Source/destination address Destination port (16 bits) DNS transaction ID (16 bits) […]
Prevent the Fileless Attacks for your Windows PC
Share this: What is a Fileless or non-malware attack A non-malware attack is one in which an attacker uses existing software, allowed applications and authorized protocols to carry out malicious activities. Non-malware attacks are capable of gaining control of computers without downloading any malicious files, hence the name. Non-malware attacks are also referred to as fileless, […]
India witnessed over 4.36 lakh cyberattacks in the first half of 2018
Share this: India ranks 21st in the global tally with 6,95,396 attacks hackers across various countries. However, India took the 13th spot in terms of hackers initiating attacks with 73,482 such incidents. Globally, the UK was the biggest source country with a total of 97,680,746 attacks this year, while the US was the top destination country […]
Ransomware Action Plan for Indian Businesses
Share this: Sometime in May last year the world woke up to the menace Ransomware can cause. Corporations were caught unaware of something as dangerous as ransomware could strike them and rake up millions of dollars in damages at multiple levels. There is no question vulnerabilities remain given the penetration of different technologies in our lives […]
Penetration Test vs Vulnerability Assessment. Choose wisely, stay protected.
Share this: It is definitely surprising that most people take penetration testing for vulnerability testing and vice-versa, sometimes even forego one for the other. Penetration testing exploits vulnerabilities in your system architecture, while vulnerability assessment checks for known vulnerabilities and generates a report on risk exposure. Both penetration testing and vulnerability assessment depend mostly on three […]
10 warning Signs of malware on your system
Share this: There are innumerable amounts of malwares lurking around the internet. Do you think one single anti-virus can protect you from all of them? Think again! A lot of viruses bypass the protection softwares and affect your systems gravely. There are hardly any changes you can observe with some malwares. But fortunately, here is a […]
2 million network storage devices affected by unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities!
Share this: Network storage devices (NAS), are critical for small and medium businesses as it adds to the extra storage space when these business are running out of space. Critical shortcomings have been discovered in the NAS devices such as WD my book, SeaGate home, Medion Lifecloud, Netgear Stora. This critical vulnerability allows actors to exploit […]
Facebook’s massive Data breach: what you need to know
Share this: The worries for facebook do not seem to stop with cambridge analytica and this time around it’s a massive data breach of almost 50 million user accounts and another 40 million which are at risk, the vulnerability allowed hackers to take direct access to all these accounts information. As per Facebook, the bugs that […]
