The Brain Virus : Some thing I missed.....

This is about BRAIN virus...a name heard in the late 80S and early 90S and recognized as the first computer virus for MS-DOS that infects the boot sector of storage media formatted with the DOS File Allocation Table (FAT) file system....This was written by two brothers, Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi who were from Lahore, Pakistan......so what makes a mention here is that I was recently watching a TED Video wherein the speaker Mikko Hypponen shares his interesting piece of interaction with these two brothers...do watch it...worth it for inviting a smile...

BIGGEST SPYING CENTRE:NSA@USA

1.  At a time when we all realize the cyber traffic movement monitoring around us via hackers,spies and the government....this will come as a news...a big news....

2.  National Security Agency,where else but United States of America ,is engaged building and ramping up the largest Spy center in the history of the world.Special points that I read about this upcoming centre are enumerated below for ur info :

-  To be completed by September 2013.

-  This will make NSA the largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever.

- Will be able to intercept your private emails, cell phone calls, internet connections and Google/Bing searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital litter 

-  To be located at Bluffdale.

-  Also known named Utah Data Center.

- Main purpose to tap, decipher, decrypt, analyze, and store Brobdingnagian Yotta bytes of the world’s communications as they take place across international,foreign and domestic networks.

-  Approx investment@$2 billion.

-  Realization of the “total information awareness” program initiated by Bush administration.

-  Also critical for breaking and decrypting codes to decipher encrypted financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal document etc.

-  This will consist of 100,000-square-foot halls filled with servers, complete with raised floor space for cables and storage excluding more than 900,000 square feet for technical support and administration.

NIMDA VIRUS : COMMENT BY CISCO VP(Security)

The question was asked by me at a NCW(Network Centric Warfare) seminar held last year on 21 Apr 2011 at Manikshaw Centre,New Delhi.It is relates to what did CISCO do to cover up the damage of NIMDA Virus!!!

TAILS - Privacy for anyone anywhere

The video above(my first screen cord :-) ) shows the screen cord for installing TAILS on a virtual Box.For those of you who do not what TAILS is all about....Tails is a live CD or live USB that aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity.It helps you to :

Firstly,use the Internet anonymously almost anywhere you go and on any computer.

Secondly,all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network.

Thirdly,leaves no trace on the computer you're using unless you ask it explicitly.

Fourthly,uses state-of-the-art cryptographic tools to encrypt your files, email and instant messaging...Please visit https://tails.boum.org/ for more details

TOR : ITSELF VULNERABLE!!!

At my earlier post here about TOR...the one who makes you anonymous online is now vulnerable it self....:-)..all the features that I mentioned just few days back...are all vulnerable....latest from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory gives the following details :

- Prone to multiple vulnerabilities as on date.

- Most severe of which allows execution of a arbitrary code by a remote attacker.

- Can cause a Denial of Service.

- A remote relay that the user is directly connected to, may be able to disclose anonymous information about that user or enumerate bridges in the user's connection.

- When configured as client or bridge, Tor uses the same TLS certificate chain for all outgoing connections

SOLUTION : ALL TOR LOVERS TO UPGRADE TO THE LATEST TOR ASAP.