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Pushdo Malware the new threat

        According to one famous online internet security magazine has confirmed that One of the oldest active malware families, Pushdo, is again making its way onto the Internet and has recently infected more than 11,000 computers in just 24 hours.         Pushdo, a multipurpose Trojan, is primarily known for delivering financial malware such as ZeuS and SpyEye onto infected computers or to deliver spam campaigns through a commonly associated components called Cutwail that are frequently installed on compromised PCs. Pushdo was first seen over 7 years ago and was a very prolific virus in 2007. Now, a new variant of the malware is being updated to leverage a new domain-generation algorithm (DGA) as a fallback mechanism to its normal command-and-control (C&C) communication methods. DGAs are used to dynamically generating a list of domain names based on an algorithm and only making one live at a time, blocking on ‘seen’ Command & Control domain names becomes nearly imp

3D Printing

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What is 3D printing? 3D printing or additive manufacturing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital file. The creation of a 3D printed object is achieved using additive processes. In an additive process an object is created by laying down successive layers of material until the entire object is created. Each of these layers can be seen as a thinly sliced horizontal cross-section of the eventual object. How 3D Printing work? It all starts with making a virtual design of the object you want to create. This virtual design is made in a CAD (Computer Aided Design) file using a 3D modeling program (for the creation of a totally new object) ór with the use of a 3D scanner (to copy an existing object). This scanner makes a 3D digital copy of an object and puts it into a 3D modeling program. To prepare the digital file created in a 3D modeling program for printing, the software slices the final model into hundreds or thousands of horizontal layers. When

Aware of Trojans While Online Banking

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Online banking users in India have been alerted by cybersecurity experts that a new 'worm' virus is out there to perform its infectious and destructive activities. The virus, which is a variant of deadly Trojan, has been named Cridex and it's said to be capable of attacking e-banking users and steal their personal log-in data. Cridex Trojan is said to be more notorious as it can assume six aliases to perpetrate its activities. In its latest advisory, Computer Emergency Response Team of India (Cert-In) has alerted e-banking users saying, the variants of Cridex malware are expanding swiftly. This Trojan is mainly aimed at information stealing from e-bankers via removable drives. Not only online banking, but social media users are also is the hit-list of this malware. Cert-In is the nodal agency in India which looks after how to fight against all kinds of hacking and phishing incidents, as well as building strong security defence of the Indian Internet domain. The virus

Top Highest Paying Tech Companies

After Study every student wants high salary job.Management consulting firms and tech companies are known for high salaried jobs. These are rich margin businesses.  IT industry has contributed great share to global economy in over last two decades. A famous online portal for employee and company rating and reviews, Glassdoor.com had published a list of top paying companies of last year. We have listed top six tech companies from that list. 1. Juniper Network Juniper Network is largest networking equipment supplier in the world. The company sells its services and products to carriers, cable operators and internet service providers in the world. Employees in Juniper Network are very well compensated. The company has workforce of 9,483. The median salary at Juniper Network is $134,218. 2. LinkedIn One of the largest social network for professionals, LinkedIn is known for the highest salary to its employees. The company truly cares about its employees, it provides number of opportu

Stay Aware While Enjoying Valentine's Day

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As valentine day is just near by i found one useful article on internet's famous website may find helpful to all lovebirds. Valentine's Day is few days to go and the online sites are with gift ideas, gift coupons and travelling offers for lovebirds. Though all these offers seem pretty attractive to the couples, in reality they may be prove harmful too. Cyber criminals are out there to send malicious spam advertisements, promotions and offers on the occasion of Valentine's Day. As cautioned by Trend Micro’s managing director, India & SEA Dhanya Thakkar, the security firm has detected 117 unique sender IPs, all of which are related to spam. Most of the spammed emails have been tracked to the U.S., India, Ukraine, Canada and the Netherlands. These spam emails have been sent in different languages like German and Chinese. These spam emails are offering gifts on dating sites and so on. Valentine's Day has always been a favorite occasion among hackers to target po

Google Bug Bounty Rewards

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Google, the famous search engine provider also known for offering bug bounty to security researchers. Company takes security of its products very seriously. Google has reportedly distributed $1.5 million to security researchers for vulnerability reports in 2014. The money was distributed to over 200 researchers for 500 bug reports. Now, the company is planning to increase the bounty amount. Google, security, research, grant, vulnerability reports, bug reports, bug bounty, google security researchers, Vulnerability Research Grant, Vulnerability Reward Program, Google bug bounty, bug reports. Google started paying reward to security researchers in 2010. It has paid out $4 million bug bounties since then. Google pays bug bounty to researchers after their bug reports are approved by Google. Company is implementing new strategy for paid out for security researchers. Google is expanding its scope with new program, Vulnerability Research Grant. Google will pay researchers between $5

Highly Paid Jobs of 2015

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              Popular job rating and review site, Glassdoor.com has recently published its annual report of "25 Best Jobs in USA for 2015". Today we have listed top 8 tech jobs from Glassdoor’s report. 1. Software Engineer Job of software engineer had many job openings during October 2014 to January 2015 on Glassdoor.com.  The average salary of software engineer in USA is $98,074. The rating for career opportunities as software engineer is 3.3. 2. Database Administrator Database Admin is critical job in IT. It is second among all tech jobs and seventh in the entire list in report.  There were 9,790 job openings for Database Admin in last three months. Database Admin has average salary of $97,835 3. Data Scientist Data Scientists are hard to find but in today’s age of BigData, companies have good number of openings for Data Scientist. Over 3,449 jobs for Data Scientist were listed on Glassdoor in last three months. The median salary for Data Scientist is