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Lately, there have been various controversial discussion getting popular all over internet about being followed everywhere by spies, complains about workplace mobbing and Organized stalking
It may sound like a revenge of a bored housewife, but recently there has been huge increase in reports by hundred of thousands of victims of harassment all over the world, [...]

Ever since the time of World War II, Studies related to military applications combining brain-computer interfacing and new communications technology, have been the subject of ongoing interest in Defense Intelligence Agencies.
Recently US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a budget funding of $4 million for a program called “Silent Talk” that would allow soldiers [...]

Slitaz Aircrack-ng a Linux distro for security auditors working with wireless auditing projects. Loaded with latest Aircrack-ng version and working completely in RAM and booting from removable media such as a cdrom or USB key, Slitaz certainly sounds like a time saving distro for WPA crack process in wireless auditing process. [...]

Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter, when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky.? Perhaps, Roger Waters, had an satori moments while writing those lines for his song “Good bye blue sky”.
Business of Information security was born with concepts of Computer viruses and network [...]

RTI act of INDIA stands for Right To Information and has been given the status of a fundamental right under Article 19(1) of the INDIAN Constitution. Article 19 (1) under which every Indian citizen has freedom of speech and expression and have the right to know how the Indian government works, what role does it [...]

Tax Payers, wondering what is cooking in kitchen of those over funded research labs. Well, far from the world of sql injection and packet injection been tested on machines, there exist a alternative world which is experimenting with human minds, by injecting psychological behavioral patterns in a subconscious human mind, programming human minds [...]

ZoneMinder is perhaps a viable solution in tough days of credit crunch,  ZoneMinder a solution for single or multi-camera video security applications, used by several commercial or home CCTV, theft prevention and child, family member or home monitoring and other domestic care scenarios such as nanny cam installations.
ZoneMinder has a user-friendly Web interface which allows [...]

In a recent development, European ministers agreed in principle to allow police to carry out remote searches of suspects’ computers across the EU. Police have been given massive powers to hack into personal computers without a court warrant.Since the announcement, privacy campaigners have been protesting the move furiously. The Home Office is facing anger and [...]

Latest research papers released by Microsoft security researchers Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio reveal the findings, that an increase in spammers and people using phishing attacks for compromising sensitive data has created severe competition and challenging the industry into a less lucrative.
Further the report says “Suppose there were a fixed number of dollars available to [...]

Xplico extracts vital information from a pcap file for forensic analysis, Xplico can extract email (POP, IMAP, and SMTP protocols), all HTTP contents, each VoIP call (SIP), and so on. Xplico is an enhanced open source Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT).
Some of the Xplico features include…
• Protocols supported: HTTP, SIP, IMAP, POP, SMTP, TCP, UDP, [...]

Backtrack the popular linux distro among wardriver and security auditor is on a verge to roll out a fresh new release of Backtrack4. The Remote Exploit development team has recently announced on its forum, “BT4 is at the stage where we need to take care of the graphics”; the only rule set here is the [...]

As per the Intelligence Note Prepared by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), The FBI has received information concerning a new technique used to conduct vishing attacks. The latest attacks were conducted by hackers exploiting security vulnerability in Asterisk software. Asterisk is free and popular software for integrating PBXii systems with Voice over Internet Protocol [...]

The latest version of the cracking utility by ElcomSoft’s Distributed Password Recovery takes cracking to the next level. Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery (EDPR) allows using laptop, desktop or server computers equipped with supported NVIDIA video cards to break Wi-Fi encryption up to 100 times faster than by using CPU only.
A GPU is an ASIC type [...]

Traditionally, a port scan with a spoofed source IP has been considered unreliable due to the fact that reply packets would not reach back the scanning system, but Dynamic Port Scanner (DPS) technique ensures the reliability of such spoofed scan. The spoofed source IP is dynamically generated at run time and it varies for every [...]