The Latest Facebook Scam

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One of the most popular social networking websites in the world is under security attack. Thousands of Facebook users worldwide have been affected by this new attack. This is not just a virus, nor is it just a worm, but the latest threat to hit Facebook is actually a combination of a virus, a worm, a spam attack and a phishing attack. A very large number of worried individuals have emailed me over the last few days about it. What is this security threat all about? Should you be worried? What should you do? What should you not do? Read on for the lowdown on this latest Facebook scam. How does it spread? You will receive a private message from one of your friends with the subject "Hello". In some variants, it could also be a simple Wall post on your profile. The message will contain a....

Getting Hacked by King Khan Fans in Geneva

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I had a very interesting experience in Geneva yesterday. I take pride in the fact that I am an avid traveler and have been to various "so called" dangerous countries in this world like Iran, Colombia, Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon and so on. When I went to these so called dangerous countries, I was advised by well wishers about things to do and things not to do, what to watch out for and what to overlook and the rest of the safety routine jazz. Yesterday I flew in from Amsterdam (one of my favorite cities in the world, but I will leave Amsterdam stories for a later time) to Geneva, Switzerland. Geneva is a beautiful city. It is home to several international organizations like the United Nations, Red Cross, WHO, ITU and many others. Geneva is a beautiful European city. It's very clean, pretty, and perfect, everything is....

Internet Ki Building

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Not too long ago, I was visiting Delhi. I was invited to speak at this conference which had a large number of officials from Delhi Police in the audience. Like always I started my talk by sharing examples of shocking cyber crimes that have taken place in different parts of the world. I followed that up with some LIVE hacking demonstrations. Fun stuff. Cool Stuff. Simple stuff. Then came the time for the Q&A session. And usually at these sarkari type conferences, nobody bothers to ask questions. Everybody is more interested in the food, collecting all printed material (testimony to the fact that they learnt a lot by attending this holiday...ummm...conference) and making sure the boss sees them scribbling down notes. Well, at least they pretend to write something down. Anyways, as soon as my presentation got over, one of the officials from Delhi Police at the back of the....

Hackers are good guys!

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Hacking and Hackers are terms that generally tend to build a negative impression in people's minds. Each time one hears either of these terms, the first thing that immediately comes to mind is the image of a computer criminal sitting in one corner of a dark room and committing a crime. In reality, that is not true at all! Most people straightway start associating the term Hackers with computer criminals or people who cause harm to systems, release viruses and so on. And I do not blame them for holding such a negative opinion. Unfortunately, one tends to blindly accept what is being fed to them by popular media. And nowadays the media has been wrongly and outrageously referring to computer criminals as Hackers. They fail to recognize the fact that computer criminals and hackers are two totally distinct terms and are not associated with each other whatsoever. People have....