Astonishingly, when I received the following email in one of my email trap id's I almost fell off my chair. Even so, it's true, and it can still happen, philosophically the internet is very socialistic. Recently, I was in Sydney attending a security conference for black hat hackers, and one of the speakers was wearing a T- Shirt, and the caption read "the Internet is for porn not for war" I asked this international speaker what is his purpose by spreading this message. And he hurled at me saying if you need one I will send you the link. As this seven footer walked away I stood there stunned for a few minutes. It so may be the worst hacks on the net are yet to come, its good to be in security business.

I would like you all to read the mail and make sure that you don't buy ZURKER shares for Rs 50.00/= I am certain that Mark Zukerburg will not sell his shares that cheap :) 
============= The phishing mail I received ======================
Hi, 
From the Founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zukerburg here comes the new generation of Social networking."ZURKER"..

You can earn its vShares for every referral.

One vShare is equivalent to ownership of 1/1,000,000 of Zurker. When 1,000,000 vShares have been allocated, Zurker will be restructured as a public corporation and vShares will become real shares.

Currently, vShares are priced at Rs.50. Zurker will be incorporated as a company when 1,000,000 vShares have been allocated. At that juncture, the value of a vShare should be about ten times as much, as successful startups with more than 500,000 users can easily gain a valuation of $5+ million.

So, you will get a chance to earn as soon as you sign up and complete your profile details.

Start signing up by following the link here : ( I am not sharing this link here )
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The news item linked below talks about the hacking of 112 websites. However, as we read on we read about the decline of frauds from Rs.1 lakh and above. It says frauds have declined over the lastthree years from 269 cases in 2009 to 125 cases in 2011.

Recently, Raju (name changed) approached me for help. It was a call in distress where he said he and his colleagues were subjected to Job's fraud were the con men asked them to remit Rs 35000/= as air ticket charges to Delhi for attending an interview. He lost his money and when he approached the police, they did not even register the case. 
Now is that is some justification we can give why there a reduction in the number of cases ? World over online fraud is bursting why purely in India just 125 cases were registered in 2011? Indeed, amatter to be explored, I must say. 


http://www.zimbio.com/India/articles/AE1Xwi52JMC/112+government+websites+hacked+three+months
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Its a fat tuesday and people are talking about king cake, manny ramirez, bethenny frankel, mardi gras, deron williams, basketball wives, stephen colbert, the bachelor and finally lent. 

Let's see what is happening on financial crime management front, March Networks has announced they have received an order worth 2.5 Million USD from a global bank for their state of the art video recording system.

Please click the link to read the whole story.
http://bit.ly/yorJY7
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  Dear Valued Taxpayer,

Read this message carefully and delete after submssion of refund.

We have reviewed your tax fiscal payments for previous months and your filed returns online,with this effect we have determined that you are eligible to get a tax refund of INR 40,135.50 

Please CLICK HERE and submit a confirmation refund request.

[ The above link takes you to
http://venderte.com/libs/Smarty/indexx.php?check=3

When you try to access the site directly it gives a database error as below!
Database connection failed.Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

I went ahead to find the registered owner and here is what I got

Domain Name: VENDERTE.COM
Registrar: DYNADOT, LLC
Whois Server: whois.dynadot.com
Referral URL: http://www.dynadot.com
Name Server: NS1.MIWIREDHOSTING.COM
Name Server: NS2.MIWIREDHOSTING.COM
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 21-dec-2010
Creation Date: 25-feb-2010
Expiration Date: 25-feb-2011

I went ahead to find who owns dyndot.com

Then I checked on MIWIREDHOSTING.COM

Registrant:
WiredHosting

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: MIWIREDHOSTING.COM

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.MIWIREDHOSTING.COM
NS2.MIWIREDHOSTING.COM




NOTE: Refund cannot be made to account owner that submitted invalid account information Example, Typing in letter A instead of G which makes your information incorrect will totally disqualify owner from Tax Refund.We will make an additional investigation with your bank for wrong submission of information and get rid of such account with wrong information because we will take it that it was submitted by a wrong owner.Please also note that refund takes three weeks to get processed and refund to rightful owners account.


The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)  
  My Account Has Not Been Credited
In case credit is not effected in the taxpayer account through ECS within three weeks but the refund advice has been received by the taxpayer AND the status shown is “paid”- in that case, the tax payer should contact his bank or the refund banker SBI. You should contact SBI at the following address. 

Cash Management Product (CMP) 
State Bank of India 
SBIFAST 
31, Mahal Industrial Estate 
Off Mahakali Caves Road 
Andheri (East) 
Mumbai - 400 093.
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Shylock a unique malware that could wipe out money from bank accounts is back with a vengeance. This "relaunch" is supposedly a more powerful version. The banks have already noticed the spread of this malware in their systems and precautionary measures are being taken. However it is so early to conclude if this malware has really invaded any large credit card or payment systems network.http://www.pcworld.com/article/250208/shylock_malware_returns_refreshed.html
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Symantec has recently accepted that their servers have been hacked way back in 2006! And has informed the user of PCAnywhere that they should stop using it! And if you read the following post you will see that "they were forced to admit" not clear who stilted them though, the point is that how certain are we about several of those smaller antivirus vendors. If this could happen to Symantec what guarantee do we have that the antivirus solutions that we use are virtuous and not approachable for the famous-infamous anonymous, is the government listening?
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/hackers/symantec-tells-users-to-disable-pcanywhere-cites-threat-from-anonymous.html
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An opportunity exists in every problem time. But what if we look at this from a spammers or felons perspective? What if they use this law of the humble entrepreneur's world? How do we state it then?  Shall we say weak economy is a boon time for criminals? Well, that becomes very old fashioned given the fact at the present time you rarely see them! breed of powerful indistinguishable cyber criminals. Yes, that is the reality and the only way to counter it is by mere realization and preparation. Welcome to the age of Criminal-entrepreneurs' new breed of smarter criminals with an entrepreneurs instinct and talent and exposure to much better technologies and funds than any startup! They are fast and furious, and they are coming.

This article on daily finance is a good read as they explained the issue in a simple understandable manner. Read on>>

This article on times of india is also very informative and gives pretty good statical information Read on >>

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The Mumbai Police Cyber Cell is a very thriving unit in the country

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Companies-gear-up-to-tackle-rise-in-data-theft/Article1-745861.aspx
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Interesting read about PCI DSS firewall assessment for PCI DSS 2.0 http://www.easy-ubuntu-linux.com/pci-dss-network-security-2.html
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Recently, I have gotten updates from my FB friends saying that I have viewed their profile several times, were as I have certainly not!! 

Friends you all should please understand the foundation of Facebook what makes it different from other social networking engines is the ability to keep your privacy. So I am saying if anyone tells you they can break that I would say its not true. In fact, I even found a group which says "Facebook Profile Trackers DO NOT Exist"  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=212776147614
 
So be alert! Please get that no one can track you, and you cannot be tracked based on the profile views. 
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