Kaspersky marks today as Safer Internet Day (9th Feb 2010) to alert users of all age group who use Internet as a part of their everyday life. Childs and Teens uses to meet with their friends via social networks and parents do their weekly online shopping. On the other hand, digital pollution such as cybercriminals and unwanted intruders compromising the average users Internet life.
Kaspersky explains the Digital Pollution as “cyber junk” which comes in our way of digital lives. 30k+ new digital threats are being discovered online every day which are created for the purpose of stealing our data, financial info’s, stealing our online identity and deleting our files. Finally we end up in Stress in our normal life.
Kaspersky started a website Safer Internet Day 2010 with the theme as “Think before you Post” which emphasizes not to reveal any personal information in social networking sites. Check out the below funny yet very informative video done in a simple way to create awareness of sharing information on the Internet.
This day aims at educating Teens and Professionals to protect their identity online by using privacy services provided by social networking sites, selecting trustworthy friends online, publish pictures of their own after thinking carefully about the consequences and also posting friends pictures with their permission.
So stay Safer Online as Internet is not that much safe nowadays. Think before you post any of your information online as it can reach more people than you ever imagine. To learn more visit www.saferinternet.org.
When you visit the TCS website now you may be shocked to see that the website look has been changed into a single page website. I thought its fake when i read that in Google but really it is not. TCS is one of the top company which makes software’s and security systems all the day. The security professionals says that this hack has been initiated via DNS Hack as same as Twitter was hacked recently due to the DNS loophole. The hacker probably not from France but the language right now in the website is in French.
The image capture of the TCS website below:
Its time to think about the basic security of all top level companies as it should not be challenged with these culprits tricks.
Update: It seems that the website is backup on the web pointing to the correct nameservers. The company has to change their Administrative Contact in their WHOIS page as its mentioned as honeybeetechnology-dot-com – it doesn’t even look legit though.
Pandalabs spotted yesterday a bunch of nearly 3000 hits of email messages containing Microsoft Update KB910721 which seems to be a virus in an email attachment. The email projects itself to be from Microsoft Support Team containing Outlook recent update and the steps to install it. The fake security patch attached in the email is a zip file contains Bredolab.Y virus.
If you run this file, the virus will get itself silently installed and also its bringing a friend in their family called SecurityTool, a Rogue Antivirus. Similar flavor of this kind had been got caught in the mid 2009 with the same KB article. One thing you have to stick it in your mind is that “Microsoft will never send you any updates or patches to your email”.
Courtesy: Panda Security