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Should we feel happy about it? Let's find out! What Firefox has been thinking of is, it is planning to bring in Google chrome's web browser extensions to support the features of Mozilla Firefox. The parent company of Firefox i. e. Mozilla Foundation has decided to update their add-on and extension infrastructure, making Firefox more capable and user-friendly. Ranked number three, ...

WordPress 4.2.1 is now available. This is a critical security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. A few hours ago, the WordPress team was made aware of a cross-site scripting vulnerability, which could enable commenters to compromise a site. The vulnerability was discovered by Jouko Pynnönen.

administrator of the popular Darknet email service, SIGAINT, is warning its users that the email service has become a target of a suspected law enforcement agency who tried to compromise it. About a week ago, SIGAINT has been targeted by an attacker who tried to hack the service by using nearly 70 bad Tor exit nodes

Remember Connectify? The downloadable software that turns PCs into Wi-Fi hotspots in just a few minutes? It looks like the company now has a new investor: In-Q-Tel (IQT), which just so happens to be the strategic investment firm that seeks out new technologies for the U.S. Intelligence Community, including the CIA.

Hey Readers ! If you have a D-Link router, then please update your firmware asap to patch a backdoor vulnerability, that allows a hacker to hack into your network without any password.

The Exploit code, Patches and Nmap script for testing is available >

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The Cryptolocker Trojan is an evolution of "ransomware," not a revolutionary change from past criminal attempts to extort money from PC owners, a security expert said today.

And the recent media blitz about the ransomware has elements of exaggeration about it.

"There is a bit of hype," said John Shier, a senior security advisor for U.K.-based Sophos, in an interview today. "Actually, it's only the latest incarnation of ransomware."

Ransomware is a category of malware that, once on a system, encrypts files and then tries to convince users to pay to decrypt them so they can again be opened. The crimeware has been in active circulation since at least 2005, with traces harking back as far as 1989.

But reports of Cryptolocker, which first appeared earlier this year, have been more prominent and persistent than any of its predecessors.

Why is that?

"It's taken lessons [from those ancestors] of how to do things better," said Shier, who repeatedly argued that Cryptolocker was not revolutionary, but evolutionary in its tactics and techniques. "It's not the first to use a public key," Shier cited as an example. Public-key cryptography relies on a pair of digital keys, one public, which is stored on the victimized PC, the other private, which is not. Instead, Cryptolocker ships that private key to the cyber-criminals, who hold it until payment is received.

Cryptolocker is newsworthy for several reasons, said Shier, who ticked off the near-impossibility of cracking the encryption; the fact that each compromised PC generates its own public-key pair, so acquiring one private key doesn't help others whose machines have been infected; the encryption of not only local files, but also those on accessible networks; targeting valuable user-made content, not the operating system; and its high ransom price, which can reach into four figures.

The Swansea, Mass. Police Department, for instance, paid $650 for a pair of Bitcoins to get its files back after a PC was infected with Cryptolocker, according to a report by the Herald News of Fall River, Mass. Both Swansea and Fall River are in southeast Massachusetts.

At Tuesday's exchange rate, the Swansea Police Departments two Bitcoins would cost more than $1,300.

Sophos, however, has seen very few Cryptolocker-infected PCs among those it protects. According to Shier, of the 16 million covered by Sophos' security software, it's counted fewer than 300 infections.

Shier offered a caveat, however. "It's not that big of a deal in businesses [which is Sophos' forte] because they have other defenses in place," he said, including robust spam filters, attachment blocking and multiple layers of security. "For consumers, it would be a little worse, I think, since many don't have those kinds of tools."

Shier sympathized with those whose files been encrypted by Cryptolocker, and although he stuck to the universal advice of all security experts to not pay the ransom -- something that increases their return on investment and so encourages them to continue -- said he understood why some may feel it's the only, or at least the least onerous, solution.

Sans backups, users facing Cryptolocker are essentially out of luck, he acknowledged. While the malware itself can be relatively easily scrubbed from the system, the already-encrypted files will remain encrypted.

One piece of advice, however, might help those who see the demand in the future. "Unplug the computer immediately," Shier said, pointing out that on a desktop PC, quick action may limit the damage because it takes time for the malware to encrypt every file it's targeted.

Sadly, Cryptolocker and its ilk won't go away until there's no profit to be made. "I don't see any evidence that [ransomware] won't continue," Shier said. "It's all about the monetization. As long as there's enough profit margin enough, they'll keep doing it."

Thousands of blogs were compromised to perform attack http://thehackernews.com/2013/09/thousands-of-wordpress-blogs.html …

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Zeus 3D copier and printer does it all in one
The world of 3D scanning and printing is about to get simplified immensely with the Zeus, an all-in-one 3D machine.

Indian Government approved National Cyber Security Policy The IT sector has become one of the most significant growth catalysts for the Indian economy. The government approved the National Cyber Security Policy that aims to create a secure computing environment in the country and build capacities to strengthen the current set up with focus on manpower training. The policy was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Security

PRO-TECH is responsible for investigating and researching all kinds of different security flaws in depth. Our expert team has years of experience both in finding flaws in apps and discovering new vulnerabilities all the tie. All of this comes from practicing high-quality methods and locating a number of different attacking vectors. A deep analysis is performed in low level code and works to turn complicated codes and algorithms into a simpler, easier-to-read code for quicker flaw detection. This is all a product of effective, object-oriented research. At PRO-TECH , we also identify security holes in client applications like SQLi, logic flaws, copying or bypassing licensing check, and so on.