Russian Hackers halted traffic as they replace roadside video adverts with Porn !!!

The size of the displays has increased as the cost of making the display technology has come down, the public video billboards has got a Big value in the Admarket. These displays allow TV-like adverts to be displayed in shopping malls, at the road side, and many other places where its prominent is more and can reach a wider audience with such type of display ads.

With hackers getting into these advert, Traffic came to a standstill as the motorists stopped to watch in amazement as the two displays showed the pornographic clip posted by hackers on big-screen video billboards in Moscow, Russian news agencies reported on Friday.

At the concerns over hacking of crucial official websites. the security agencies have warned the government not to use the blackberry instruments by their officials working in sensitive ministries like Prime Minister’s office.

Agencies have also cautioned against the practice of connecting official computers and laptops with unsecured internet connections by some bureaucrats thus compromising security.

Mainly hackers from china are very active and have being penetrated deep into the cyberspace, the security agencies had asked all ministries especially the Defence, External, Home and the PMO to have their official computers separate from the one which are used to connect to the internet world.

Microsoft’s browser flaw exposed Google and at least 20 other companies to hackers in the recent computer attacks.

By setting browser’s Internet security zone to “High” the security hole can be closed – told by Microsoft on a alert confirming the weakness. The World’s largest software maker may also issue an update to fix the problem.

Symantec Corporation is now launching a new version of Antivirus software known as Norton Internet Security 2010. This software can scan and detect virus effectively compared to older versions. Norton 2010 has behavioral detection engine which can detect the virus by watching the behavior of the file which is under…

Now, its time for the spammers to utilize economic recession & heavy job cuts. Due to economical crisis, most of the companies started removing their employees. Spammers targets plently of job seekers who are affected by the job losses. Because of the recession as online identity thieves concoct clever new…

Trend Micro systems, a computer security firm warned social networking sites including Facebook about the recent malware, worms and rogue applications that may attack community websites. These recent malwares become biggest threat for most of the social networking applications. Although a number of the leading social networking sites have been…

The software gaint Adobe released updates for Flash and advices on Acrobat. During the end of february month, Adobe warned its users about vulnerability in Adobe Flash and Acrobat. Adobe named those vulnerability as critical.  Adobe published on Tuesday an update to fix flaws in its ubiquitous Flash software and…

Adobe has warned about the critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat on Thursday. And also said that, this vulnerability can lead adobe reader or adobe acrobat to crash and could potentially allow hacker to take control of the entire system. Symantec the security gaint has said, that the…

According to the security researchers told the attendees at the Black Hat Security Briefings, Man-in-the-middle attack is one of the major threat that can easily sidestep any SSL (Secure Socket Layer) enabled connections.  It doesnot mean the weakness of SSL encryption, but the combination of poorly educated users, fewer security…

Microsoft Corp. has announced that the company is ready to reward with $250,000 for arresting conficker worm. The conficker worm is also known as Downadup. Microsoft Corp. has teamed up with security researchers, Internet corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and operators within Domain Name System to disable domains…

Microsoft, the software gaint had released patches for its softwares that fixes eight security holes. Microsoft released patches for its Internet Explorer web browser, Exchange e-mail server and Microsoft SQL Server. The fixes were released on Microsoft’s regular monthly schedule that closes two critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer running in…

Fewdays back, we had posted an article title “Network Breach in Credit card processors warns : Heartland”. “Credit and debit card transaction processing company  Heartland Payment System warned that it had found evidence of a network breach that had compromised consumers’ credit-card numbers.“ Heartland, an credit and debit card transactions…

I got surprised, when I searched in google at 9.10am PST. Yes, the surprise and shock news is that, Google search results reported “This site may harm your computer” for any and every search query. Google responded to problem through a blog posting just after 9am PST : If you…

“Businesses lose $1 trillion due to loss or data theft and other cybercrimes“, says McAfee Inc.  The security and antivirus company, McAfee studied about this and said most of the company lose $1 trillion because of their data theft. The McAfee launched the survey after detecting a rapid acceleration of malicious software,…

Major Job seeker site Monster.com warn about breach of its user database.  Warning that online intruders made off with an unspecified number of job seekers’ names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, log-in names and passwords. Monster.com, an NewYork-based Monster Worldwide warns about scant information on breach, but said there was no confidential informations…

The worm, known by several names including Conficker and Downandup, has been spreading by taking advantage of a flaw in a Windows Server service that Microsoft patched during the month of october. These worms are more targetting the computer networks in Asia and Latin America. It seem to have infected between 6…

Hackers has attempted to steal £229m from the japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui. Hackers used keyloggers to gain password information put failed to fill out  electronic transfer forms correctly, court told. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. Hackers are seems to be…

Mac users are warned of a new malware are distributed with the pirated softwares.  These malwares are presently targetting Mac OS X. According to the reports from both Intego and Symantec, the malwares are presently targetting the Mac OS X and are distributed with the pirated copy of Apple’s iWork productivity suite….

Company anti-spam czar Mark Risher made a posting on Tuesday focusing on Yahoo’s new plans towards spam protection. “At Yahoo, we take spam seriously,” said Risher.  According to the posting, “It’s a huge challenge and the bad guys are always out there trying to make a buck with their scams, but we’re committed…