One of the very famous websites being visited today specially in India is snaptest.org, which is actually a sister site of Symbiosis Institute Of Business Management. Symbiosis is one of the very famous b-schools of India and has developed a name for itself in last many days.

Time for entrance exam to earn a seat into the school is nearing in and in order to know the details of the exam when few of my friends visited there sister site snaptest.org there computers slowed down and also started downloading heavy content from the Internet behind the scenes without there permission. [Read more]

Hackers who created this malware must have been very nasty else why would someone spend nights in order to create a malware which goes on to delete the computers mp3 files. Yes that is true! A recent article on computerworld suggests that the creators of this malware are more likely to be teenage mischief-makers than the organized criminal gangs we typically see authoring financially motivated malware these days.

Symantec Corp., which calls the worm W32.Deletemusic, said in an advisory that the worm copies itself to all drives on a PC. It also creates an autorun file to start itself whenever a user accesses a drive.

The worm affects PCs running Windows 2000, 95, 98, Me, NT, Server 2003, XP and Vista, Symantec said. To block potential problems users could disable the autorun feature in Windows that automatically launches programs on CDs or USB drives.

Users could also exercise caution by holding down the SHIFT for a few seconds in order to deactivate the Autorun function when they plug in USB sticks or other removable media to their computers or when they insert a disk. Users should also make regular backups for their critical data by burning DVDs or using automated backup tools.

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Indian Institute Of Technology, Kanpur (IITk), which is considered to be the best engineering institute of India and its teaching methodologies are recognized world wide, had its website hacked few days back by probably a McDonald Fan. When you click on the above images to see the enlarged view you will find (marked with red arrows and color) the changes which the hacker made. The hack not only displays the knowledge of hacker but it also shows how innovative the hacker is. IITk website was soon brought back to its normal form as the authorities came to know about it but my classmate Sudhanshu was quick to take its screenshot. Thanks to him.

NOTE: My intention behind posting this article is just to show to Internet users the innovation the hacker used and by no means I am challenging the name of IITs which I know will always remain the best. I love IITs.

There you go, another victim of hacking for revenge. Hackers attacked the Web site of a foundation run by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, accusing him of brutally suppressing a pro-independence demonstration in Soviet Azerbaijan in 1990.

The perpetrators posted photographs of the suppressed rally on the Web site and published an open letter to the former leader, blaming him for the deaths of more 130 people — a tragedy known in Azerbaijan as the Black January.

The site was down by Saturday afternoon.

Fueled by the conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous region inside Azerbaijan populated mostly by ethnic Armenians, pogroms broke out against Armenians in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku in January 1990, forcing Soviet troops to intervene and evacuate many Armenians.

Thousands rallied in Baku demanding the ouster of communist officials and independence from the Soviet Union, causing Soviet troops to storm the capital late at night on Jan. 19, 1990.

Shootings and violent clashes lasted several days, leaving 134 people dead and more than 770 wounded. International rights groups said the force used against the demonstrators was excessive and disproportionate.

Azerbaijan gained independence in 1991 after the Soviet collapse.

Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990, Gorbachev maintains an active public life running the Gorbachev Foundation — an organization that deals with international issues including globalization, security, weapons of mass destruction, environmental and natural resources and poverty.

Source: Yahoo News