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“Yahoo and Hotmail accounts also attacked by hackers?” plus 1 more

Yahoo and Hotmail accounts also attacked by hackers?

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 03:16 PM PDT

Apart from Gmail, even some of the Yahoo and Hotmail users have been attacked by hackers. Google has accused China of the attacks, which this is not the case of Hotmail and Yahoo. However, it has been said that the nature of attacks in both the cases seem similar.

Nart Villeneuve, the senior threat researcher for the software security firm has said that the objective of the hacker seems to access the web mail accounts of the users to observe the nature of communications or to plan a future attack.

According to the recent Gmail attacks, the hackers had used the phishing attack to have an access to the Gmail account. The problem with the Hotmail security came in to notice a few weeks ago by the trend Micro.

However, Trend Micro in a statement had claimed that they have already dealt with the problem that was identified earlier. Recently even Yahoo was warned about a possible attack of the hacker by steeling the cookies in order to gain access to the email accounts. TZhe attempt had failed, but had proved that some of the attackers had also aimed the Yahoo email accounts. Till now, it is not clear that how grave the problem was for the Yahoo or the Hotmail users.

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Ramdev Baba Satyagraha, Baba reminds his protest is not political

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 09:19 AM PDT

In support of Anna Hazare's fight against corruption, non political and spiritual leader Ramdev Baba has announced his agitation against all those who are corrupt. Ramdev Baba has also made it clear that his protect is not sponsored by any political party and is totally neutral.

People who had joined the spiritual leader at the Ramlila Ground at New Delhi, were Sadhvi Ritambara and a few participant from the Sikh, Jain and Muslim communities. Ramdev at the protest site had at regular intervals reminded the media and his followers that his protest does not have any political aim.

Some people had also suspected that the RSS were involved in the protests after the spokes person Ram Madhav had said that they have asked the volunteers to participate in the fight against corruption in Delhi and in the other districts.

Ritambara during her speech had said that if there were more fighters like Vallabh Bhai Patel, then there would not have any need for a saint to sit on a Satyagraha.