Security expert Ebrahim Hegazy, Cyber Security Analyst Consultant at Q-CERT, has found a serious vulnerability in Twitter. The Twitter Unrestricted File Upload Vulnerability allows an attacker to upload files of any extension including PHP. When an application does not validate or improperly validates file types before uploading files to the system, called Unrestricted File upload vulnerability.…
A well-known CNN’s Twitter, Facebook and website hacked by Syrian Electronic Army hacker group,aligned with President Bashar al-Assad, who successfully attacked The New York Times, Huffington Post, and Twitter, BBC, National Public Radio, Al-Jazeera, Microsoft, Xbox, Skype and responsible for cyber-attacks against various other U.S media companies in the past. The affected accounts included CNN’s main Facebook…
For the first time in history, Indian Law Enforcement Agency ‘Central Bureau of Investigation’ (CBI) has arrested a Cyber criminal behind Hire a Hacker service after getting a tip-off from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). 33-Year-old Amit Vikram Tiwari, son of an Indian Army colonel and an engineering dropout, who allegedly ran two websites…
The extension of general information systems has brought about with itself a bunch of privacy and security concerns not only for separate users but also for huge organizations. Here several aspects may be considered: all the private employee data and the company’s important information is recorded in computers, besides there ere organizations that perform all…
Due to growing of IT hacking activity worldwide, people are becoming more and more concerned about their security system failures. Throughout your business or everyday life you probably came across with such issues as hacking, system security, data protection etc. The ‘cancer’ of modern technology, hacking, is having rapid development and expanding its targets absorbing…
Nowadays with the enforcement of Software Compliance rules IT administrators have made one of their goals ensuring the software they apply is licensed or not. Unlicensed software may have undesirable aftermath not only in the financial aspect but also it may harm a firm’s reputation. Here may also be cases when software license has expired…
Changes, operating systems, network environments and user expectations usually make programs obsolete much faster than expected. We have inadvertently deleted files or even formatted disk drives and later discovered that critical data was unintentionally erased. Here a Product Key Recovery Program comes to help designed to read and decrypt and/or de-obfuscate the key to its original state.…
Forgetting password happens to everyone but what to do when weed to regain access to password-protected files or systems? Password Cracking is the series of operations of getting back passwords from the data stored in a computer system. We usually either try repeatedly to guess the forgotten password or recover a forgotten password replacing it with…
Computers are great tools, probably one of the greatest tools ever invented. Our reliance upon these machines is frightening at times, especially when you think about all of the data stored on them. As consumers, and business owners we keep everything on our computers: our company’s financial records, pictures of our kids, home videos, our…
The long process of Encryption has had its start since ancient times where no computers and other modern computing facilities were available and our ancestors used this for only character substitution. The process of deciphering was a long and tedious process. In earlier decades when people didn’t have the problem of protecting information of their…