hacking

Hello Friends,

Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) along with Department of Information & Technology and Computer Emergency Response Team-India (CERT-In) have established the Information Security Advisory Forum.

Now since everything else has already been hacked, cell phones were the only thing left. As always, whenever a new technology comes, it gets hacked sooner or later. Cellphone hacking is a recently started subject and the first media coverage came when Paris Hilton’s cell phone was hacked.

TOP 10 HACKS

Early 1990s

Kevin Mitnick, often incorrectly called by many as god of hackers, broke into the computer systems of the world's top technology and telecommunications companies Nokia, Fujitsu, Motorola, and Sun Microsystems. He was arrested by the FBI in 1995, but later released on parole in 2000. He never termed his activity hacking, instead he called it social engineering.
November 2002

Dear Members,

Be aware of the following threat for your Home Internet Connection, if you are using router to connect to the internet
That you should change the default password on your home router - whether wired or wireless, has been ascertained by security researchers at Symantec and Indiana University. The researchers have discovered that attackers can change the configuration of home routers using that 'usual suspect', JavaScript code.

A hacking kit which allows fraudsters to capture confidential information even when consumers protect their banking transactions with secure two-factor tokens is circulating on the internet.

The Universal Man-In-The-Middle phishing kit allows the capture of credit card details and other personal information by intercepting messages before they are passed to genuine banking and e-commerce sites.

The key ingredient that drives your business today is information. That's because most businesses cannot function if this ingredient is not available or is unreliable. Availability, integrity and confidentiality of information are paramount concerns today. The manufacturing records, sales records, financial records, customer records are all kept on computers. In today's networked world, these may be accessible from anywhere, via the Internet. Organizations can't be too sure that all digitized information is secure. Organizations want to be able to take advantage of the Internet for electronic commerce, advertising, information distribution and access, and other pursuits, but they are worried about the possibility of being “hacked.” In their search for a way to approach the problem, organizations came to realize that one of the best ways to evaluate the intruder threat to their interests would be to have independent computer security professionals attempt to break into their computer systems. This scheme is similar to having independent auditors come into an organization to verify its bookkeeping records.