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Massive DNS Poisoning Affects Major Brazilian ISPs

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Brazil is currently under a massive DNS cache poisoning attack, reports Kaspersky Labs. When a user tries to visit popular local and global sites such as Google, Yahoo and Facebook, a popup is displayed. It asks the user to download a security suite called Google Defender in order to access the site. Read More »

Microsoft Releases Fix it Solution for Duqu and Advanced Notification for November Bulletin

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This month will see the release of four security updates, of which one is rated critical, two are important and one is moderate. As noted in the below table, Bulletin 1 and 2 patches vulnerabilities that enable Remote Code Execution while Bulletin 3 is for an Elevation of Privileges bug and Bulletin 4 is for a Denial of Service bug. Read More »

Have you been pwned? PwnedList will help you find out

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Do you, at times, wonder whether your accounts have been compromised? If the answer is yes, you can now verify your doubt by using a service appropriately called PwnedList (Pwn is a jargon used by hackers to imply that an account has been compromised). Read More »

A Look at Facebook’s Security Infrastructure

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25 billion actions a day or 65,000 actions a second! That is the volume of actions generated by Facebook's 800 million users. And all of these actions are monitored by Facebook’s massive Security infrastructure called the Facebook Immune System or FIS for any kind of suspicious activities. Read More »

An Interview with an OpDarknet Anon

OpDarknet is a new operation of Anonymous. In this operation, the Anons have promised to purge the hidden web of caches of child pornography. Till now, many users of child pornography forums have been identified many of these sites in the DarkNet have been attacked by DDoSs. An Anon called 'arson' agreed to be interviewed by Techie Buzz and the interview follows. Read More »