Petroleum Ministry warns PSU oil companies of cyber attacks

Following an advisory by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry has alerted all the heads of oil marketing companies (OMCs) about the possibility of cyber attacks.
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Indian tweens use risky or low level security passwords

 Indian tweens, children between the age of 8-12 years, are enthusiastically adopting Internet using multiple devices, but use risky or low level security passwords, a survey by cyber security major McAffee revealed.

McAfee's Tweens and Technology Report 2013 said online tweens are potentially vulnerable to risky behaviour on the Internet a good number of them have chatted to someone online that they didn't know previously.
A disturbing trend on the rise among tweens is their apathy towards their own online safety. 58 per cent of the respondents surveyed use risky or low level security passwords online and Almost half of the tweens surveyed share information about themselves over FB (41 per cent), it added.
Another dangerous trend that the survey by the US-based firm revealed is that Indian tweens are becoming more trusting of the virtual world to familiarise themselves with unknown people, in spite of being aware that it is risky.


http://zeenews.india.com/news/net-news/tweens-fast-adopting-internet-but-apathetic-towards-security_892783.html

Top Ten Biggest Cyber Crimes

 Though slightly outdated but still gives useful information on cyber attacks in modern times

Source  : http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/17807-Top-Ten-Biggest-Cyber-Attacks-Of-All-Time.html

News Super Computing 13: GPUs would make terrific network monitors

1. A network researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has found a potential new use for graphics processing units -- capturing data about network traffic in real time.
2. GPU-based network monitors could be uniquely qualified to keep pace with all the traffic flowing through networks running at 10Gbps (gigabits per second) or more, said Fermilab's Wenji Wu. 
3. What he is trying to tell that all the present technologies and tools used have their limitation and their traffic monitoring capabilities are extremely fault prone
4. CPUs don't have the memory bandwidth or the compute power to keep pace with the largest networks in real time. As a result, they can drop packets. 
5. Thus GPU are the future.
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