Monday, May 26, 2014

U.S Does Not Allowing Chinese People In Def Con conference At D.C

Washington D.C is restricting the Chinese nationals from attending the popular summer hacking conference in Las Vegas this year; this all come after the US accused Chinese hackers to hack the US govt. networks said a senior administrations official on Saturday. He also put some lights on the Washington could use the Visa restriction to keep them from attending the conference. Since people know that the summit is the only event where companies shows their technology innovation and other stuff another seminar called TEC Conference 2014, in which several tech leader will join the stage including Microsoft, Qualcomm, Nemesysco’s Amir Liberman and several other executives from the different nations. The Def Con is also a big event featuring the hackers from across the world and those are the black Hat hackers and US already accused the five Chinese hackers to hacking in the US military officers.


Reuters says “Organizers of the two conferences said they knew nothing about any efforts under consideration by Washington, but that they believed limiting participation from China was a bad idea. Jeff Moss, founder of both Def Con and Black Hat, could not be reached, although he posted his thoughts on Twitter: "First I have heard of it, boarding flight to D.C. now. I don't think it helps build positive community."
On the basis of US Accusations on China, United nation will not allow tham in the conference.At the event the employee of Chinese security software Maker Company Qihoo 360 will be delivering the keynote and will speak about the software vulnerabilities, while two scientists from Chinese Universities of Hong Kong are on talks with the hacking social media that Def con does not allowing any Chinese nationals to give any keynote or something. 

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

US Govt. Accuses Chinese Hacker Steal Trade Secrets by Compromising US Firms

The World has now threatened by hacker more than terrorists or anything else, as NSA was involved in several activity, in which they weren't supposed to be involved and people online security breach and data theft still was occurring, in the same manner the US Govt. accuses the Chinese hackers. The previous Mandiant reports that emphasize a new and advance security threat from China, a security company has released a full step by step video that shows how hacker can steal the information. Today the U.S Govt. announces a condemnation of unit 61398 indicating that the members of the hacking group, breach computers and stole the information from six victims, including a Chinese State owned company. The confrontation comes right after, when NSA has been accused to install unwanted software’s into the Servers that will be shipped to foreign customers.


USGovt. has said “Right about the time SolarWorld was rapidly losing its market share to Chinese competitors that were pricing exports well below costs, these hackers were stealing cost, pricing, and strategy information from Solar World’s computers. And while Westinghouse was negotiating with a Chinese state-owned enterprise over the construction of nuclear power plants, the hackers stole trade secret designs for components of those plants.”

The NSA had passing through bad time because it already accused to knowing the security bug Heartbleed but does not disclose it to take advantages, also the OpenDNS bug, which puts the internet to threat. The DOJ consider this act as a Crime, but sticky given that the now politely infamous NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden has directly accused the NSA has develop the industrial Surveillance that are responsible for collecting the Industrial Information such as  energy in Mexico, trade in Israel and oil in Venezuela.



Thursday, May 15, 2014

OpenDNS Has Got Funding From Cisco For Cloud-Based Enterprise Network Security



Cloud –based Network Company OpenDNS and also specialized to provides security services for Network, which is totally cloud based and help other companies to get their Networks safe from Hackers, has announced a $35 Million in series C funding from Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, Glynn Capital, Cisco, Evolution Equity, Lumia Capital, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Northgate Capital. This new round has brought $53 million total funding until now. Open DNS has been found back in 2005 with the aim for customers to connect safely to the Internet. In Addition, the company has provide DNS controls along side with the parental and business filtration means give parents over controls about what their kids are doing on Internet. Also provides a way for consumer to hide their searched from ISP’s. After 2009 founder and CEO has see a new way to provide these services from companies too. The company has launched a security solution called Umbrella that protects the companies from hackers and their users regardless of where they work or what devices they use to access the internet.


TechCrunch says “The company has built out 22 data centers that had the ability to carry tremendous volumes of traffic needed by these enterprise companies. From a product standpoint, OpenDNS gives IT cloud-based software that monitors and secures every device that connects to a business’ network, from anywhere in the world and even for the devices that leave.”

The OpenDNS has 50 Million daily active users who use their services everyday and more than 10,000 enterprise customers using the security solutions. According to sources, company clients are biggest multinational corporations in the world like BP, H&R Block and Nvidia. Sales were also have grown to 100 percent and growing to other countries too.

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Hacker Targeted French Telco Orange Customers

France Telecom Services group Orange announced on Wednesday that they detected an data breach this week, professional Investigator says that about 1.3 million customer’s information been compromised including phone numbers, birth date, email addresses etc. The attack did not penetrate the payment system and no confidential information was stolen in the attack like credit card numbers. But Orange then sent out an email to warn their target customers having said that they may be again target with phishing pages to extract more confidential information like Credit card number or passwords. "The data recovered could be used to contact those concerned by email, SMS or by phone, particularly for phishing purposes," Orange said. This was the second data breach in just two months of time, when company trying to strengthen the defense against cyber attacks and bugs in Security Technology like Heartbleed bug.

Cnet says “Companies have been busy reinforcing their defenses in the wake of a massive security breach at US retailer Target and the revelation that the Heartbleed bug left unencrypted information available for the taking from web servers. The breach was detected April 18, but Orange said customer notification was delayed to allow for investigation and repair of the issue. Orange also reported in February that the personal information of about 800,000 of its customers was stolen in a similar attack in January. Both hacks came not long after Orange CEO Stephane Richard signed a charter in which the company pledged to protect its customers' personal data and respect their privacy.

After hacking individuals for long time, hackers are now turning to tele communication companies for stealing the money or sensitive information like Credit card credentials and valuable information. The info which earn them money or cash.Also Vodafone Group announced that their 2 million users been compromised last year

Thursday, May 1, 2014

The WEEE Legislation in Israel, Tackling the Ewaste

Israel is tackling EE through the Environmental policies and significantly developed several organizations like m.a.i recycling, which is a well known e-recycle company. After several years, when there were no rules and regulatory, then came the Israeli environmental regulation has taken the good take care of the environment and there are several matter that are not related, which were subjected to outdated standard. After recasting the update new complete rules are updated and guild lines. The WEEE legislation has gone through number of minor updates since 2002, which includes 2006 and 2009 too. After nine years of working the law is failed to reach the aim so they amended it again. On December 20 2011 The EU council and parliament agreed on amendments to directive.

The Knowledge sourced says “The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive) is the European Community directive 2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) which, together with the RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC, became European Law in February 2003. The WEEE Directive set collection, recycling and recovery targets for all types of electrical goods, with a minimum rate of 4 kilograms per head of population per annum recovered for recycling by 2009. The RoHS Directive set restrictions upon European manufacturers as to the material content of new electronic equipment placed on the market.”


The symbol adopted by the council is wheelie bin crossed with cross mark with a black line and the line is represents the manufacturing year of the goods say the before 2005 and with line says after 2005. The WEEE legislation is taking care of 4 kg Electronic and electrical goods  per heads per year but the targeted to reach 50%  till 2020 and the 500 million people of generating the a huge number of goods every year.