Dipak Parmar

Cyber security has become a hot topic throughout businesses and organizations as new technology continues to develop. In the past several years the world has evolved around technology tremendously, making it hard for people to keep up and adapt to it. As new phones, computers, automated tellers, and security devices become familiar around the world; there are also people determined to break into them, as opposed to utilizing them correctly. These people are known as hackers, and they are dangerous. Their intention is to steal, bribe, and or threaten technology users for their information. Safety in the household, at work, and in the economy have increasingly developed into daily task items. Whether that means enabling a home safety device, locking a computer at work, or even encrypting bank information. The number of hackers increases daily around the globe and their actions ranging from spamming your email to as far as stealing encrypted data from banks and capital markets. The U...

Windows and Linux in the same line? Yes, you heard that right... and that too, on the same computer and within the same operating system. Two months ago, Microsoft announced its plans to let its users install  three different flavours of the Linux  operating system –  Ubuntu ,  Fedora , and  SUSE  – directly through their Windows Store, allowing them to run Windows and Linux apps side-by-side. Now, downloading an entire operating system has just become as easy as downloading an application with the availability of popular Linux distro  'Ubuntu' in the Windows App Store . However, unlike a conventional Ubuntu installation, this Ubuntu version runs in a sandboxed alongside Windows 10 with limited interaction with the operating system and is focused on running regular  command-line utilities like bash or SSH  as a standalone installation through an Ubuntu Terminal. For now, Ubuntu is currently only available to Windows 10 In...

CRITICAL ALERT Wannacry/ WannaCrypt Ransomware Original Issue Date:- May 13, 2017 Updated On:- May 15, 2017 Virus Type:-  Ransomware It has been reported that a new ransomware named as "Wannacry" is spreading widely. Wannacry encrypts the files on infected Windows systems. This ransomware spreads by using a vulnerability in implementations of Server Message Block (SMB) in Windows systems. This exploit is named as ETERNALBLUE. The ransomware called WannaCrypt or WannaCry encrypts the computer's hard disk drive and then spreads laterally between computers on the same LAN. The ransomware also spreads through malicious attachments to emails. In order to prevent infection, users and organizations are advised to apply patches to Windows systems as mentioned in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS17-010. https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS17-010 After infecting, this Wannacry ransomware displays following screen on infected system: Source: Symante...

The German cybersecurity researchers have found that many security vulnerabilities in many websites could, in fact, be due to people learning to code from popular online tutorials which are riddled with many mistakes. The Computer scientists from the Saarland University, the Technical University of Braunschweig, Technical University of Berlin, and the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro have analysed thousands of PHP programming projects on the  GitHub  and they have cross-referenced the code against a bunch of popular coding tutorials which rank at the top of Google. Most of the popular tutorials online focus on teaching the new coders how to perform a particular task, like how to create a search form in PHP or how to accept the user’s input from a HTML form /message box and output it in the JavaScript; or the tutorials on how to start using an open source database management system like  MySQL . These tutorials offer coding examples that people can copy, but more...

A team of researchers from the University of Michigan  discovered  that hundreds of applications in Google Play Store have a security hole that could potentially allow hackers to steal data from and even implant malware on millions of Android smartphones. The University of Michigan team says that the actual issue lies within apps that create open ports — a known problem with computers — on smartphones. So, this issue has nothing to do with your device's operating system or the handset; instead, the origin of this so-called backdoor is due to insecure coding practices by various app developers. The team used its custom tool to scan over 100,000 Android applications and found 410 potentially vulnerable applications — many of which have been downloaded between 10 and 50 Million times and at least one app comes pre-installed on Android smartphones. Here I need you to stop and first let's understand exactly what ports do and what are the related threats. Ports can be ...