Archive for 'Security'
I am out of the matrix
Posted on 15. Aug, 2010 by Amit Jindal.
This evening when I started booting my reformatted laptop, I realized that I am no longer at status quo. Reminds me of the conversation in Matrix. At first Neo’s new world seems rather unreal to him, and he begins to doubt that he has entered a new world at [...]
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World’s nastiest trojan fools AV software
Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
Once again on Microsoft Platform: One of the world’s nastiest password-stealing trojans evades detection by the majority PCs running anti-virus programs, according to a study that examined 10,000 machines. Zeus, a stealthy piece of malware that sits on a PC and waits for users to log in to bank websites, is detected just 23 per cent of [...]
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PC Invader Costs Kentucky County $415,000
Posted on 08. Jul, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
Increasingly Windows users are seeing attacks that are more sophisticated and using techniques unheard before. These attacks continuously point out to a single aspect of windows. And they say it out LOUD. Windows is NOT secure. Period. Then why don’t people get it? PC Invader Costs Ky. County $415,000 Cyber criminals based in Ukraine stole $415,000 from the coffers [...]
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Hot! - London Stock Exchange to abandon failed Windows platform
Posted on 04. Jul, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
When massive infrastructure relies on non-linux/non-unix, this should be expected. Although windows is good for quick upstart, major infrastructure simply cannot rely on it. Here’s what computerworld wrote: Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the [...]
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The Hidden Cost of Using Microsoft Software
Posted on 01. Jul, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
Yet another Microsoft Issue that is often hidden from those who purchase Microsoft only products and infrastructure. The TCO is not only upfront investment. It should also be lost productivity, time and money is cleaning someone else’s mess. “Detractors of free software like to point out it’s not really ‘free,’ and claim that its Total Cost [...]
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Non-biological Computer Viruses for a species known as windows
Posted on 14. Jun, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
How true, According to SecurityFocus columnist Scott Granneman: To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. It surprises me that the number of viruses/malware for windows is in such HUGE numbers. And they are on serious rise! In 2007 Symantec [...]