Protect your smartphones, tablets from potential cyber attacks

by Natraj Kanoor on January 11, 2012

The year 2012 is expected to be a breakthrough year for cyber attacks on smartphones.

Not only are they loaded with all sorts of personal and possibly business information a crook would like to steal, but most smartphones are also completely unprotected. And most people are not aware of the threat.

“We’ve definitely got to start to worry about security on mobile devices,” said James Lyne, an expert on mobile security at Sophos Labs, one of the giants in the data security business.

“For the last few years, it’s really been more of a hyped topic. But over 2011 we started to see the bad guys produce some nasties just like on the PC for these mobile devices. So it’s more important we’re protecting ourselves,” Lyne said.

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FACEBOOK WILL END ON MARCH 15th, 2012!

by Natraj Kanoor on December 13, 2011


Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be shut down in March of 2012. Managing the site has become too stressful.

“Facebook has gotten out of control,” said Zuckerberg in a press conference outside his Palo Alto office, “and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness.”

Zuckerberg went on to explain that starting March 15th of next year, users will no longer be able to access their Facebook accounts. That gives users (and Facebook addicts) a year to adjust to life without Facebook.

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PwnPhone-Pentesting Suite for Nokia N900

December 2, 2011

The Pwnie Express’ PwnPhone is a full Pentesting suite for the Nokia N900. It Includes Aircrack, Metasploit, Kismet, GrimWEPa, SET, Fasttrack, Ettercap, Nmap, and more… Custom pentesting screen with shortcuts to macchanger, injection on/off, etc. Built-in wireless card supports packet injection, monitor mode, and promiscuous mode.

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Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites

October 4, 2011

Researchers have discovered a serious weakness in virtually all websites protected by the secure sockets layer protocol that allows attackers to silently decrypt data that’s passing between a webserver and an end-user browser. The vulnerability resides in versions 1.0 and earlier of TLS, or transport layer security, the successor to the secure sockets layer technology [...]

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