COCON – International Information Security Day in Kochi on 5th and 6th Aug 2010

c0c0n is an annual event conducted as part of the International Information Security Day. Kochi City Police along with the Matriux Security Community is organizing a 2 day International Security and Hacking Conference titled c0c0n 2010, last time it was called CyberSafe . as part of Information Security Day 2010. Various technical, non-technical, legal and [...]

[ More ] July 9th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Security |

Find which application/service is running in a port – Windows

Most of the applications are using standard ports, some cases user or application will assign different ports for the application. For example Port 80 is the default port for IIS, if you are trying to start a different web applications it will say error message like “port 80 already in use” . Or you start [...]

[ More ] April 20th, 2010 | 8 Comments | Posted in Servers, Softwares |

www.tcs.com hacked – DNS attack

The Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) website www.tcs.com is hacked and giving a “Site for sale” notice page.

But some users are Still getting the Original page : Because It was a DNS Attack, This same attack once happened in twitter.com. Now Some DNS Servers  serving IP address  :   205.178.152.154  and others giving 216.15.200.140.  hackers have [...]

[ More ] February 7th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Security |

KB979352 Microsoft Fix – IE Remote code execution vulnerability

This is a Remote code execution vulnerability of internet explorer. Hackers can install Trojan virus without their knowledge. Many attack incidents are reported in Chinese sites.

[ More ] January 19th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Internet, Security |

List of free online Anti virus scanners

Here is a list of Online Anti-virus scanners from popular antivirus software vendors. And it is not a substitute for antivirus software’s. But sometimes virus corrupt the antivirus and even we cant install or reinstall a new antivirus. Also if your current antivirus is not detecting & cleaning the virus, in this situations you can [...]

[ More ] January 6th, 2010 | 3 Comments | Posted in Security, Softwares |

Enable database encryption on PuTTY Connection Manager

PuTTY Connection Manager is a free PuTTY Client Add-on. It can store sensitive information’s like IP address username and passwords of our Servers and Network switches. We can save even commands and scripts in the Connection manager database. Once a connection create and save in the database anyone can access that server without user id [...]

[ More ] December 31st, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Networking, Security |