An Auditor from Deloitte & Touche,USA has lost an unencrypted CD beleived to be containing important information of current and former McAfee Employees. Around 9000 employees' social security numbers, information of stock holdings and other important info has been lost.

A Deloitte representative confirmed this incident had taken place on Dec.15 and McAfee were informed on Jan.11 almost a month after the incident had occured.

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Feels good to have gone bug-hunting after a long time. I found a couple of buffer overflows in a prominent software in just a matter of 2 hrs !!. The POC Code will not be released. I have contacted the vendor and prefer not to elaborate on the details of the same as malware authors are waiting to prey in such situations ;-))

Life seems to be fast these days and time alwayz is one-step ahead of me ... I hope to change this situation soon.

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Apple proxy ?? Apple's site mac.com has a redirection facility which attackers "can" use to their advantage.

Check this out : http://www.mac.com//redirect/http://www.hotmail.com

The above crafted URL is just a example,instead of hotmail it could be "any" dangerous URL perhaps a scam.

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OS/X Leap.a - First power pc malware found in the wild.

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You can get F-Secure's analysis here.

Does this mean Mac is becoming more popular with the latest collaboration between Apple and Intel ???
Yes,it's becoming prominent and malware authors are targetting it for a change ;-))

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The muslims have once again started defacing websites, and posting political messages against denmark... More news on the issue can be had from here . It's strange why denmark had to say anything ...and why this new wave of cyberwar against the two had to arise..??

It's just in it's budding stages, and more attacks are likely to be seen in the future. These things remind me of the all-famous Yaha worm and their variants which wreaked havoc in Pakistani ISP(s). Indians and pakistanis were dueling each other a while ago from 2001 or so and still it is continuiing ...for a reason called "Kashmir"

IMHO a Cyberwar between any two countries on political grounds is un-necessary. This is not any good because true patriots know how to fight by conducting, campaigns / speeches etc instead of trying to attack one's digital possesion.

Why try to mess with one's digital privacy when there are governments and other departments under them trying to bridge these issues smoothly.

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---[Disclaimer]---
This post is just my view and it's not meant to be Indian's view or pakistan's view or whatever. Iam against racial /communal feelings. Everybody is a human and they deserve what they actually do ... Neither me nor my host (blogger.com) can be held liable for any misconception of what is expressed in this post.

We need to compete for knowledge and wisdom, not for grades. Knowledge is piling up facts, wisdom is simplifying it. One could have good grades and a degree without learning much. The most important thing one can learn is to "learn to learn." People confuse education with the ability to memorize facts. Education of the mind without morals creates a menace to society.

Who is really educated ??

In a nutshell, educated persons are those who can choose wisely and courageously under any circumstances. If they have the ability to choose between wisdom and foolishness, between good and bad, between virtuousness and vulgarities, regardless of the academic degrees they have, then they are educated.

Expert ?? An expert is someone who knows all the answers if you ask the right questions.

Taken from Shiv Khera's book = You can win :-)

Still reading the book ... More to come ...

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To give you an example of selective listening, let me share with you a story I heard about a medical doctor who was invited as a guest speaker to address a group of alcoholics. He wanted to make a demonstration that would be powerful enough to make people realize that alcohol was injurious to their health. He had two containers, one with pure distilled water and one with pure alcohol. He put an earthworm into the distilled water and it swam beautifully and came up to the top. He put another earthworm into the alcohol and it disintegrated in front of everyone's eyes. He wanted to prove that this was what alcohol did to the insides of our body. He asked the group what the moral of the story ??

And one person from behind said, "If you drink alcohol you won't have worms in your stomach."

Was that the message? Of course not. That was selective listening--we hear what we want to hear and not what is being said. Many of our blessings are hidden treasures--count your blessings and not your troubles.

Taken from Shiv Khera's book = You can win :-)

Iam still glued to this piece of plethoric values ...

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There was a man who made a living selling balloons at a fair.
He had all colors of balloons, including red, yellow, blue, and green. Whenever business was slow, he would release a helium-filled balloon into the air and when the children saw it go up, they all wanted to buy one. They would come up to him, buy a balloon, and his sales would go up again. He continued this process all day. One day, he felt someone tugging at his jacket. He turned around and saw a little boy who asked, "If you release a black balloon, would that also fly?" Moved by the boy's concern, the man replied with empathy, "Son, it is not the color of the balloon, it is what is inside that makes it go up."

The author's insight: What's inside us matters,"the attitude" that makes the difference between losers and winners...

Taken from Shiv Khera's Book = You can Win(best selling title) :)

It also brings to mind the saying "IT'S THE ATTITUDE,NOT THE APTITUDE THAT DETERMINES ONE'S ALTITUDE"

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