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Cryptography is the technique of writing in secret code; there are two type of cryptography symmetric and asymmetric. Symmetric-key cryptography indicate to encryption techniques in which mutually both the sender and receiver share the same key to encrypt and decrypt a message, and Asymmetric cryptosystem use one key (the public key) to encrypt a message and a different key (the private key) to decrypt the encrypted message. Asymmetric cryptosystems are as well known as public key crypto systems.

Cryptography is core techniques which are being used in computer and network security for such things as access control and information confidentiality and are not easy to break. Typically the Encryption is the transformation of data or message into a form that is as close to impossible as possible to read without the appropriate knowledge. Its intention is to ensure privacy by keeping information hidden from anyone or unauthorized person, even those who have access to the encrypted data. Decryption is the reverse of encryption; it is the transformation of encrypted data back into an intelligible form.

Also Endorsement & Verification is key element of our lives as privacy that is the reason Authentication is essential in our day to day life with any kind of transactions- when we sign our name to some document, in case doing online transaction our decisions and agreements are communicated electronically, we need to have electronic techniques for providing authentication. In such case a digital signature is recommended which is reminiscent of an ordinary signature with characteristic that it is easy for a user to produce and same time making it difficult for anyone else to forge.

This month, McAfee have come out with an interesting report on the Online Security Threats. It is an appealing read for anybody interested in the security phase.There seems to be nothing remarkably different from popular understanding, but there are some interesting facts and figures worth reading. A few highlights, which caught my attention, are following.

Global Recession in spamming Trends: The overall spamming activity has drastically reduced in last two quarters. It looks like global recession has exaggerated the spamming industry as well. For the first time in last several quarters, spam as a percentage of total emails sent, has come down below 90%.

But actually, it is the result of the shut down of one of the major spamming network with the name McColo in last November. Let’s see how things steps forward in remaining quarters of 2009.

There is a great jump in the activities of Rogue applications. This seems to be the new area, which is getting good growth.

March saw record time growth for the launching of new rogue applications and witnessed more than double number of these apps as contrast to any single month in last many years.

Which Country Hosts the most BAD URLs:

Many people point the finger at countries like, China, Russia, Ukrain and other East European countries to be the root of evil, where most of the malware are fabricated and foster but on the contrary to popular belief, US accounts for almost half of all the BAD URL. This may be due to the popularity of Internet in US, but it is high time that we stop accusing of other countries for all bad things.

Drugs Continues to be the Top Reason behind Spam:

Male enhancement drugs such as Viagra and diet pills and other prescription drug, and general advertising spam continue to score near the top among the types of spam sent. These three types alone account for approximately 60 percent of the spam sent during the past three quarters.