information Security News October

1. News bytes by vinay kumar

2.  Difficult to believe this, as we
hardly come across such news.
 But trust me, a person managed to
buy no ordinary .com domain, but
— Google.com and that too for
one whole minute.
 Sanmay Ved, an ex-Google
employee and current-Amazon
employee, experienced something
of a shock when he found that the
world's largest search engine
website, Google.com, was
"available" for purchase.
How Amazon Employee bought
'Google.com' Domain for Only $12 from
Google

3.  It's the cost of the most-trafficked
domain in the world — Only $12.
 Expecting to get an error message,
Ved added the domain to his
shopping cart and made payment.
The entire purchasing process went
through without any difficulty.
 Within moments, his inbox and
Google Webmaster Tools were
flooded with webmaster related
messages confirming his ownership
for Google.com.

4.  We are just one step closer to creating a Harry
Potter or ‘Star Trek’-style Transporter.
 However, When we talk about Teleportation,
we don't typically mean Teleporting any
matter from one place to another as in the
Science-fiction Movies.
 Rather, Teleportation involves capturing the
essential information about something — its
"quantum state", to recreate it exactly
someplace else
 A month ago, The Hacker News had reported
the battle between Quantum computers and
Encryption.
Quantum Teleportation — Scientists
Teleported Quantum Data over 60 Miles

5. I Support Digital India, But I haven't Changed My
Facebook Profile Picture. Here's Why...
DIGITAL INDIA – A Flagship Programme
of the Government of India with a vision to
transform India into a digitally empowered
society as well as a knowledge economy.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met
Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook launched a tool that allows you to
change your Facebook profile picture to a
Tricolor shade of Indian Flag, just like few
months back 30 Millions Facebook users had
changed their Profile picture with Rainbow
color to support "Gay Marriages."

6.  Google Wants Developers to
Create Richer Apps
 By increasing file size limit
from 50 MB to 100 MB, Google
wants to encourage developers
for creating richer apps and
games, as well as help avoid the
need for downloading
additional files after the initial
APK download.
Google Play Store increases Android
APK Size Limit from 50MB to 100MB

7.  Beware Windows Users!
 A new dangerous unpatched
Zero-day Vulnerability has been
detected in the latest version of
WinRAR affects over millions of
users worldwide.
 According to Mohammad Reza
Espargham, a security researcher
at Vulnerability-Lab, the stable
version of WinRAR 5.21 for
Windows computers is
vulnerable to Remote Code
Execution (RCE) flaw.
KILLER! Unpatched WinRAR Vulnerability
Puts 500 Million Users At Risk

8.  A network of compromised Linux
servers has grown so powerful that it
can blow large websites off the Internet
by launching crippling Distributed
Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks of over
150 gigabits per second (Gbps).
 The distributed denial-of-service
network, dubbed XOR DDoS Botnet,
targets over 20 websites per day,
according to an advisory published by
content delivery firm Akamai
Technologies.
 Over 90 percent of the XOR DDoS
targets are located in Asia, and the most
frequent targets are the gaming sector
and educational institutions.
New Botnet Hunts for Linux —
Launching 20 DDoS Attacks/Day at
150Gbps

9.  Earlier this month, Microsoft
surprised us all with the
announcement that they built a
Linux kernel-based operating
system, Azure Cloud Switch
(ACS), for developing software
products for Network Devices.
 Now, Microsoft just announced that
they have selected Ubuntu as the
operating system for their Cloud-
based Big Data services.
 Azure HDInsight is a Hadoop-
based Big Data solution powered by
Cloud that is now also available for
Ubuntu, along with Windows OS.
Microsoft Chooses Ubuntu Linux for their
Cloud-based Azure HDInsight Big Data
Solution

10.  After a number of controversial data mining
features and privacy invasions within
Microsoft's newest operating system,
Microsoft finally broke the ice, almost two
months since the launch of Windows 10.
 Microsoft has finally responded to the
growing privacy concerns around its new
operating system to regain the trust of the
users who are concerned about their online
privacy related to Windows 10.
Microsoft Responds To Windows 10
Spying Concerns, But It will Still Collect
Your Data

11.  In a blog post published Monday, Windows chief Terry Myerson
describes three ways in which Windows 10 collects and uses its users
data – although he did admit that the OS does regularly phone home by
default.
Microsoft Responds To Windows 10
Spying Concerns, But It will Still Collect
Your Data

12. Thank you