Isha Suri

Isha Suri is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE covering social news and security trends. If you have a story idea or news tip, send it to @SiliconAngle on Twitter.

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New Android Trojan Surfaces, Increases Text Message Spam

We all know that Android and virus attacks have a long-term relationship. So, making it bit strong (no pun intended!), a new Trojan virus recently surfaced that lead to an increase in text message spam in the U.S. Named as SpamSoldier, this Trojan virus infects smartphones and sends out out thousands of SMS messages without the ...

Mind-controlled Prosthetic Arm Helps Tetraplegia Patient

A 52-year old woman paralyzed from the neck down and suffering from Tetraplegia has been able to guide a robotic arm with her thoughts with a level of agility closer to normal. This study has been conducted by the researchers at the University of Pittsburg, who ran the experiment over a course of 13 weeks. ...

Metrics-Driven Development: Let’s Know A Bit More

As IT world is becoming more and more competitive and resources scaling up more than ever, it becomes important to have an awesome monitoring system that can track every damn application and process. However, instead of a combined effort of Devs and Ops, monitoring is implemented by Ops teams alone. While Ops team is responsible ...

For 2012, Games are the Most Grossing Software on iOS

iOS users love playing games, and that’s official now! The recent data collected by ‘Inside Mobile Apps’ revealed that games are the most popular software on iOS devices in 2012. According to this data, seven of the ten highest-grossing iPad apps and ten highest-grossing iPhone apps were games. Even if we take a look at ...

Corona Labs Acquires Game Minion

Corona Labs, leading mobile software company has completed the acquisition of Game Minion, a Dubai-based mobile cloud services company. Minion will now operate as Corona Cloud, and has been purchased for an undisclosed sum. With this acquisition, Corona Labs will accelerate the app creation process for all developers, especially Corona SDK users, as they integrate ...

Yet Another DDoS Attack on US Banks: From JPMorgan Chase to SunTrust

Looks like it’s a bad time running for U.S. based financial institutions. Not much time has passed when five U.S.-based banks, U.S. Bancorp, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, PNC Financial Services Group, and SunTrust became a target of DDoS attacks. And now again, hacker group called Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters warned it would launch ...

Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall Becomes Available

Oracle has recently confirmed the availability of Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall, which protects Oracle and non-Oracle databases by monitoring network traffic and analyzing audit data. This fulfills the company’s commitment of delivering the most complete portfolio of database security solutions for enterprises. Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall is the industry’s only product ...

Online Boutique ExploitHub Hacked, Database Leaked

ExploitHub, which sells code to attack software security holes, has been hacked, leading to database leak of the website. The online boutique ExploitHub was hacked by group called Inj3ct0r Team, which apparently operates an exploit bazaar to rival ExploitHub, has taken the responsibility of the hacking. “We hacked exploithub.com because the people who publish private ...

FBI Leverages Facebook to Smash Cybercrime Ring

FBI recently revealed that they have successfully smashed an international cybercrime ring with the help of Facebook. The criminal group included around 10 people, who went on the $850m Butterfly botnet spree. All of them are responsible for multiple variants of the Yahos malware, which is linked to more than 11 million computer takeovers and ...

Checkmarx On Demand: The New Source Code Review Tool

As cyber crimes are increasing manifold and there’s a lot of security incidents to worry about, developers want to build vulnerability-free codes. To help the entire developer community, Checkmarx introduces an On demand tool that provides complete Source Code review in a secure cloud environment. Checkmarx is a leading provider of code analysis tools, static ...