This year is not so good for Sony Because after day by day things go worst for Sony after Cyber attack on PlayStation Network and Qriocity music service this time it’s a hacker attack on various websites associated with Sony Pictures.
A team of individuals going by the name LulzSec, who recently managed to deface PBS.org’s homepage, announced that they have broken into SonyPictures.com and compromised more than 1 million user accounts. An additional 75,000 music codes and 3.5 million coupons were also uncovered.
The attack, part of a campaign known as Sownage, was announced on Twitter and on the LulzSec website.The group did manage to grab a collection of databases that contain thousands of usernames.
According to LulzSec the security lavel on the server is not upto the level,And they heck the website using a very basic tactic called a SQL injection, They also told that “all of the information it took was unencrypted.”
We can only hope the most recent cyber attacks convince executives to think seriously about investing in online security.

Yes India is third best home for hackers after America and brazil this is accorrding to the report published by Symantec’s Internet Security,According to Symantec India is on 13th position in 2008 year but now (rank in 2009) it is in 3rd position so this is very rapid growth in wrong side.

According this report India were the third-highest spam generating country in the world, contributing about 4% to worldwide spam volumes.
In the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region, India ranked first in terms of spamming ,worms,viruses and backdoorsand contributed 21% to the regional total. About 6% of the world spam zombies and 28% of the APJ regional spam zombies resided in India. Around 1% of the world phishing hosts and 7% of regional phishing were in India. India ranked first in terms of in the APJ region

The country saw an average of 788 bots per day during 2009. Bots are malwares that turn computers into zombies and there were 62,623 distinct bot-infected computers observed in the country during 2009. Amongst the cities in India with the highest number of bot-infected computers, Mumbai figured at the top with 50% followed by Delhi at 13% and Hyderabad at 7%.
According to Symantec, majority of the malicious codes were propagated through file sharing and executable files. File transfer and common internet file system was the second-most preferred means while the rest was through remotely exploitable vulnerability. Other popular means included file transfer, email attachment, instant messengers, data-bases as well as backdoors.
Source:Economics time
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