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Information Security Free Tool Kit
Information security (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
As Information Technology advances and new security measures are put in place, comes the problem of securing the Privacy and safety of the data.
Reputed Service Providers are doing what they can.
However this problem persists.
The Hacker News has provide a Link for outlining the Essentials of Information Security.
“”The Essentials of Information Security Kit: Includes a Free PC Security Handbook – 2nd Edition eBook“
Download this kit to learn everything you need to know about Information Security.
The following kit contents will help you get the most out of your Information Security research:
- Zero Day Exploits
- PC Security Handbook – 2nd Edition
- 2012 Endpoint Security Best Practices Survey
- Best Practices and Applications of TLS/SSL
Offered Free by: TradePub
Other Resources from: TradePub
This ebook can be downloaded at the Link.
http://thehackernews.tradepub.com/free/w_bund20/?p=w_bund20
Website Spies Even Your Hidden Photos
We are aware of tracking sites and sites that track you.
I came across a site that tracks down all your activities including what you think you have hidden.
This site tracks even your social networking activities .
Spokeo Tracks even your Hidden Files
The site is Spokeo.
The best way to protect your information is not by divulging it in sites.
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Facebook Delivers Messages To Wrong People- Security?
In yet another case of beach of Security,Facebook seems to be delivering messages to people from whom you want this to bekept secret.
At least be careful in future of what you share.
Dear Facebook (Photo credit: JAMES ANTHONY CAMPBELL)
University of Texas students Taylor McCormick and Bobbi Duncan came out to the world via Facebook, but not in ways they ever intended.
In another case Bobbi Duncan desperately wanted her father not to know she is lesbian, but Facebook told him anyway. Soon, she learned that another choir member, Taylor McCormick, had been outed the very same way, upsetting his world as well.
Dropbox Hacked, Change Password
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Close on the heels of LinkedIn and Yahoo, now it is the turn of Dropbox to be hacked.
Popular cloud storage service provider, Dropbox has acknowledged that the security of some of its users’ accounts was compromised. The users were getting spam emails from hackers who managed to get their hands on the account details of the users of these compromised accounts.
The matter was escalated when some of the Dropbox users started receiving spam mails on their email accounts associated with their Dropbox account. The cloud storage service provider, however, took some time to find pout the root cause of the issue and has tried to fix it by helping the users improve their accounts’ security.
Dropbox has apologised to the users about the security breach through a blog post on their official blog saying, “Our investigation found that usernames and passwords recently stolen from other websites were used to sign in to a small number of Dropbox accounts. We’ve contacted these users and have helped them protect their accounts.”
http://www.themobileindian.com/news/7817_Dropbox-accounts-hacked-security-upped
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Taking quick actions against the same, Dropbox has taken appropriate steps in notifying the affected users through email, urging them to change their passwords right away. Reportedly, the company has also asked the users to change the passwords of their other social media profiles including Facebook, Twitter, Gmail or any network for that matter that are attached with Dropbox or share common passwords.
Further, in the coming weeks, the company has confirmed to take following steps to beef up its security system:
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Two-factor authentication system requiring a couple of identity proofs – password and a short-term code sent to the user’s mobile, while signing into the account.
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Automated mechanisms that will help in identifying suspicious activities.
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A new page that lets you examine all active logins to your account.
Changing Dropbox password
To change the password of your Dropbox account, click here and proceed as per the instructions.
- Dropbox confirms it was hacked, offers users help (news.cnet.com)
Hacked Yahoo Voice 45 000 passwords Online, How to Check
Deutsch: Logo von Yahoo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Keep changing the passwords frequently.
If you’re a Yahoo Voices user, it’s time to change your password.
Security for the service appears to have been compromised early Thursday morning. A list titled “Owned and Exposed” which is “brought to you by the D33Ds Company” was posted online revealing a number of details for the service including all of the email addresses and passwords for Yahoo Voices’ 450,000 users.
The site hosting the information is intermittently down; however, we were able to open the document and verify that it does in fact contain user emails and password data.
At the end of the document the group remarks that it posted the information to be a “Wake-up call” rather than a threat.
“We hope that the parties responsible for managing the security of this subdomain will take this as a wake-up call, and not as a threat,” the document says. “There have been many security holes exploited in webservers belonging to Yahoo! Inc. that have caused far greater damage than our disclosure.
“Please do not take them lightly. The subdomain and vulnerable parameters have not been posted to avoid further damage.”
The group also included this quote from Jean Vanier in its closing remarks: “Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.”
http://mashable.com/2012/07/12/yahoo-voice-hacked-usernames-and-passwords-posted-online/
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But it wasn’t just Yahoo! email addresses that have been infiltrated: Gmail, MSN, Hotmail, Comcast and AOL accounts have also been hacked. (Yahoo! Voices allows you to sign in with non-Yahoo! email addresses.)
Thanks to Sucuri Malware Labs, you can now check to see if your email account via Yahoo! Voices — notYahoo! Voice, which some media outlets have reported — was a part of the leak.
Check if your email information was compromised by clicking here.
The leaked email account information first surfaced online early Thursday morning by a hacker group called “D33ds”. Because the passwords were stored unencrypted, the long list of usernames and passwords were posted in text for all to see.
The news comes just one day after 420,000 member accounts from social network Formspring were compromised, and a few weeks after millions of passwords were leaked online from sites such as LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm.
