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Friday, September 4, 2009

*The Indian IT-Industry is going to face 3 Million staff crunch by the year2020!!







India's IT and services sector currently contributes about Rs.48 billion annually and has grown at a rate of 33 percent (computed annual growth rate) in the last 10 years.The industry has contributed an incremental 6 percent growth to the country's gross domestic product (GDP) in the period, while having a 45 percent positive impact on the urban employment rate.




India's technology and services industry could face an employee shortage of up to 3.5 million by 2020, says a study. It also points that the sector will earn $225 billion in revenues by 2020 despite the current global economic crisis, said a study.




"The untapped markets from Brazil, Russia India and China (BRIC) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) regions will contribute 80 percent to the incremental growth during the period till 2020," Nasscom president Som Mittal said.North America and Western Europe currently constitute the core markets for the Indian IT and services industry, contributing about 75 percent to the total revenue."Newer verticals like healthcare, public sector and media will present new opportunities to diversify and tap growth," Ranjit Tinaikar, partner at McKinsey, said.Currently the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sector accounts for a major chunk of the revenues.Small and medium businesses will also provide new growth opportunities, the report said.The study also said if India and its technology industry focused on transforming its business environment, innovativeness and talent development, the revenues would be as high as $375 billion by 2020.But the report also has its share of potential risks and warnings:*India's share in services exports can decline from 51 percent to 40 percent*The industry could face an employee shortage of up to 3.5 million*Infrastructure is still ill-equipped to handle an industry five times the current size*Policies not in tune with the industry's potentials of growth*Competitive threat is expected from at least 25-30 countries.

Now...D NexGenFlashVulnerabilities!!!!!


An issue in Adobe Flash is more serious. Most vulnerabilities are confined to one technology; for example, a vulnerability may affect a particular browser or a particular operating system, but it is rare for a vulnerability to span multiple platforms and products. This is not the case with Flash. Flash exists in all popular browsers and is also available in PDF documents. It is also largely operating system independent; therefore, the threat posed by this issue is not to be taken lightly. Flash has become an integral part of the modern browsing experience—becoming so ubiquitous that most users don’t even notice it.
Thomas Ptacek of Matasano Security summed up just how serious Flash vulnerabilities are: “Why do you care about Flash exploits? Because in the field, any one of them wins a commanding majority of browser installs for an attacker.” (The full blog post is here: This New Vulnerability: Dowd’s Inhuman Flash Exploit.) The large user base of Flash presents attackers with a huge target audience and will certainly be too much for them to resist.
Ptacek made the comment above when describing an article that Mark Dowd, research engineer with IBM ISS, published in April 2008 (Application-Specific Attacks: Leveraging the ActionScript Virtual Machine). This article detailed how he created a reliable exploit that took advantage of a very subtle memory corruption issue in Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.115.0. He gives a detailed account of how he overcame the many obstacles put in place by the Flash developers. This was quite an achievement. Whether it was intentional or not, this paper gave the reader a certain sense of security since it proved just how difficult it was to reliably exploit this issue and once the patch was available we could all put that nasty incident behind us. As expected, there were many people who were very happy to pick up Dowd’s research and use it for their own purposes. Since the release of Dowd’s paper we have seen widespread attempts to exploit Flash in the wild, but invariably they would all eventually use the exploit Dowd discovered. That is, until now.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

U...H@CKED!!

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R U H@CKED ???