BANGALORE: Digital hacking, breaking firewalls, cracking security systems and stealing information is becoming a concern across the globe among agencies, companies and public and private institutions. 2013 witnessed some the worst cyber attacks where certain companies were targeted multiple times.

Companies such as eBay, Michael’s and Neiman Marcus; also hotels, forums and numerous websites have been the victims of cyber crime. Well just in to the half of 2014, there are already a number of scary breaches even topping the number of breaches witnessed in 2013.

Heartbleed, exposing virus: April this year witnessed a wide scramble of websites when a flaw turn up in an open SSL- a tool that allows secure online communication even https websites. This bug was dubbed as ‘heartbleed’ that was programmed to expose just about anything from usernames, password, emails and SSL numbers.

This problem was huge as it even infiltrated sites like Instagram, Netflix and Tumblr. Surprisingly, this accidental threat made companies open up to supporting startup companies. The vulnerability of this bug is classified as Buffer Over-Read, which means software allows huge amount of data to be read than it should be allowed.

TrueCrypt No More:  A software program that creates an encrypted file on your computer and lets you access that file using a drive letter. This program protects the file using certain keys that is protected by a separate TrueCrypt passphrase. But this software is discontinued with the end of Windows XP by Microsoft. It was a source available freeware utility used for on-the-go encryption.

In May, users could not access this software and instead were redirected to SourceForge page. Though people thought it was a hoax or a hack, it was later revealed that this software was no longer available. There is news of resurrecting this project under a new management but it is not definite at the moment.

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