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IRCTC website hacked, information of lakhs feared stolen.

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The website of the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) was hacked and the personal information of around 1 crore users is feared to be leaked, said reports on Thursday. The official website of the Indian Railways, IRCTC is the biggest travel e commerce website in India and lakhs of transactions are conducted by the site everyday. With the reported leak, safety and security questions about the customers’ personal information like PAN card numbers and other details have arisen.

 The hacking occurred late on Tuesday night and the site has now been brought under control. But the fears of personal information of thousands of customers being misused still remain. A high-level meeting took place in Delhi regarding the hacking. Senior IRCTC officials discussed what measures could be taken to ascertain how far the hackers had gone. Speaking to Mumbai Mirror,  AK Manocha, Managing Director of IRCTC revealed that so far, there has been no complaint from any customer, but Delhi police’s cyber cell has been informed. 


Customers have to fill in important information for online reservations and when stolen, the same can be used by miscreants to create forged documents. ”The data is a valuable asset and can be sold to corporations who may use it for targeting potential consumers,” an IRCTC source was quoted as saying by TOI. Personal data of the users like email ids and mobile numbers which are also filled in, while making online bookings, can be used by telemarketers for promoting their respective products or services and spamming the customers with unwanted messages.

 However, sources said that it was unlikely that bank details or credit card details are leaked since the website, since the payment gateway takes the customer out of the website during the online payment. Once the user is directed to the bank site, there are less chances of information getting leaked as these have better security. The hacking occurred even after the Railways reportedly spent Rs. 100 crores last year, for the upgrading of the website.



Thursday, May 5, 2016
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How to Become an Ethical Hacker

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Cyber-security is one of the major concerns of online users these days and hackers are an inevitable part of this discussion. Every part of our cyber world is influenced by hackers and they exploit the vulnerabilities of systems to gain unauthorized access. While numerous people are confused between the terms hackers and cyber-criminals, many of you are willing to know more about hackers and how to become one.

Have you ever considered hacking as a career? There are few things that should be considered to figure out if hacking is the right job for you.

As I’ve discussed in my earlier article, there is great confusion among people when it comes to things like cyber criminals, hackers, ethical hacking, black hat hacking, white hat hacking and more.

Who is an ethical hacker?
Ethical hacker performs hacking to help an individual or company and identifies the potential risks. An ethical hacker is a good guy and sometimes the term is used synonymously White Hats. They work to improve the overall internet security and search for weak points that could be exploited by the black hats – the bad guys.
Take a look at these points and you will understand what constitutes ethical hacking! These are “guidelines” that an ethical hacker must follow!
1.     Respect an individual’s or company’s privacy.
2.     Having a permission (expressed – often written) to break into a network and look for the loopholes.
3.     After finding the vulnerabilities, you tell your employer about the unknown flaws.
4.     After finishing the work, you must not anything open for later exploitation by you or someone else.
5.     Do not take any kind of advantage of the permission and access granted to you.
Now, take a look , It’s a very well represented career path. For choosing this career as an ethical hacker, you can start by becoming an Information Security analyst or by becoming a computer programmer.

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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
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The 7 Most Wanted Iranian Hackers By the FBI

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has lengthened its Most Wanted List by adding seven Iranian hackers who are accused of attacking a range of US banks and a New York dam.

The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) charged seven Iranian hackers with a slew of computer hacking offences for breaking into computer systems of dozens of US banks, causing Millions of dollars in damages, and tried to shut down a New York dam.

The individual hackers, who allegedly worked for computer security companies linked to the Iranian government, were indicted for an "extensive campaign" of cyber-attacks against the US financial sector.

All the seven hackers have been added to the FBI's Most Wanted list, and their names are:
1.      Ahmad Fathi, 37
2.      Hamid Firoozi, 34
3.      Amin Shokohi, 25
4.      Sadegh Ahmadzadegan (aka Nitr0jen26), 23
5.      Omid Ghaffarinia (aka PLuS), 25
6.      Sina Keissar, 25
7.      Nader Saedi (aka Turk Server), 26
All the hackers have been charged with conducting numerous Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks on major U.S. banks, with Firoozi separately gaining unauthorized access to a New York dam's industrial automation control (SCADA) system in August and September of 2013.
"This unauthorized access allowed [Firoozi] to repeatedly obtain information regarding the status and operation of the dam, including information about the water levels, temperature, and status of the sluice gate, which is responsible for controlling water levels and flow rates," a DoJ statement reads.
Luckily, the sluice gate had already been manually disconnected for the purpose of maintenance at the time Firoozi attacked.

The hackers' work allegedly involved Botnets – networks of compromised machines – that hit major American banks, including Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase, as well as the Nasdaq stock exchange with floods of traffics measuring up to 140Gbps and knocked them offline.

The Iranian hackers targeted more than 46 financial institutions and financial sector companies, costing them "tens of Millions of dollars in remediation costs" in preventing the attacks in various incidents spanning 2011 to 2013.

All the seven hackers will face up to 10 years in prison on computer hacking charges while Firoozi faces an additional 5-year prison sentence for breaking into a dam in Bowman Avenue Dam in Rye Brook, New York.

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Saturday, April 23, 2016
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