Here I present some top hacking tools for only Educational purpose. Any use of these tools for vulnerability attacks are on your own risks and this blog is no way concerned regarding those attacks and the consequences.
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Alert for Wi-Fi users in India
Wi-Fi users in India are more vulnerable to virus attack
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| Wi-Fi Attacked |
Now a days we have seen several
attacks by the Anonymous hacker on several websites and daily their is
certain news related to hackers, we must be aware that in India Wi-Fi is
most vulnerable to such attacks.
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| Password Hack |
Even Indian computer security analysis
firm warns India for such attacks. According to the Indian Computer
Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the virus attacks through Wi-Fi
could lead to crashing and even hacking of the secure networks. The
firm has discovered that the Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) has a design
error, which increases risks of virus attacks and may allow attackers to
take unauthorised control of the affected system. The error can also
help attackers crack and stealthily enter into an encrypted and password
protected system.
“The
virus is streaming in the Indian Internet networks with a high
severity. The combat mechanisms are being deployed,” a computer
security analyst with a government agency said. “An unauthenticated,
remote attacker within range of the wireless access point could use the
PIN (password) to gain unauthorised access to the device to retrieve
the password for the wireless network or change the configuration of
the device. Failed attempts to exploit the vulnerability could lead to a
denial of service condition,” the CERT-In said in its alert to Wi-Fi users.
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The agency also pointed out its
reports that revealed several WPS devices do not feature any kind of
lockout policy for such attack attempts. Users in India mostly use the
WPS method to set up a wireless router for home network. The WPS
procedure requires a PIN that can be used during the setup phase.
Issuing an advisory to the Wi-Fi users, analysts of CERT-In said that
users should disable the external registrar feature of the WPS to
protect their device from virus attacks.
"So
we all must be aware of it and try to make our Wi-Fi connection more
secure.Lets see weather we can make our connections secure or we will
also come in some news for being hacked by Anonymous hackers or for some
virus attack."
Pacemakers and other Medical Devices Can be Hacked
Hacking a computer
is not a difficult task now a days but killing or injuring a person like this
could be interesting case to resolve & very good tactics to make
people scary about these things & nice planning to promote and sell
their new medical product as well.
Computers and smartphones aren’t the only electronics that can be hacked. Alarmingly, during the past few years several researchers have found that wireless and wearable medical devices, like pacemakers, insulin-delivery systems, and neural implants, are vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Though none have reportedly been hacked in field use yet, researchers have been hard at work finding ways to secure such medical devices before it’s too late.
A team of professors and graduate students from Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Ind., and Princeton University recently developed a prototype firewall that could go a long way in warding off attacks.
The group includes Meng Zhang, an electrical engineering graduate student at Princeton; IEEE Fellow Anand Raghunathan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue; and IEEE Fellow Niraj K. Jha, a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton.
The team was inspired to develop its prototype, Medmon, after researching the vulnerability of a variety of medical devices in 2011, including pacemakers, glucose-monitoring and insulin-delivery systems, neural implants, and so-called smart prosthetics. “Our work showed that these are surprisingly easy to hack,” Raghunathan says.
“The correct functioning of implantable and wearable medical appliances is life-critical,” he says. “Any security attacks that can disrupt them, or even leak private information, are of great concern.”
Breaking into an insulin pump is not difficult, and it takes only a small investment. “A few research groups, including ours, have shown that medical devices can be hacked using relatively inexpensive [worth less than US $1000] off-the-shelf equipment such as a PC and a software-programmable radio,” Jha says. “We were able to snoop on sensitive health information and take control of the insulin pump to prevent the delivery of insulin or to deliver it when it was not needed.”
Although the likelihood of someone’s insulin pump being hacked is considered low, the researchers say it’s important to act now, before an incident occurs.
But I think, this research is in its preliminary stages so its difficult to say that hackers have access or can attack these devices!
I think, perhaps we need a new protocol or VPN like thing for the implanted devices.
Computers and smartphones aren’t the only electronics that can be hacked. Alarmingly, during the past few years several researchers have found that wireless and wearable medical devices, like pacemakers, insulin-delivery systems, and neural implants, are vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Though none have reportedly been hacked in field use yet, researchers have been hard at work finding ways to secure such medical devices before it’s too late.
A team of professors and graduate students from Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Ind., and Princeton University recently developed a prototype firewall that could go a long way in warding off attacks.
The group includes Meng Zhang, an electrical engineering graduate student at Princeton; IEEE Fellow Anand Raghunathan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue; and IEEE Fellow Niraj K. Jha, a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton.
The team was inspired to develop its prototype, Medmon, after researching the vulnerability of a variety of medical devices in 2011, including pacemakers, glucose-monitoring and insulin-delivery systems, neural implants, and so-called smart prosthetics. “Our work showed that these are surprisingly easy to hack,” Raghunathan says.
“The correct functioning of implantable and wearable medical appliances is life-critical,” he says. “Any security attacks that can disrupt them, or even leak private information, are of great concern.”
Breaking into an insulin pump is not difficult, and it takes only a small investment. “A few research groups, including ours, have shown that medical devices can be hacked using relatively inexpensive [worth less than US $1000] off-the-shelf equipment such as a PC and a software-programmable radio,” Jha says. “We were able to snoop on sensitive health information and take control of the insulin pump to prevent the delivery of insulin or to deliver it when it was not needed.”
Although the likelihood of someone’s insulin pump being hacked is considered low, the researchers say it’s important to act now, before an incident occurs.
But I think, this research is in its preliminary stages so its difficult to say that hackers have access or can attack these devices!
I think, perhaps we need a new protocol or VPN like thing for the implanted devices.
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