The Holocaust is probably the darkest chapter in modern history, taking the lives of more than 6 million people killed with extreme cruelty by the Nazi regime. This is an optimistic estimate, as some historians claim that the actual death toll is much higher but impossible to determine due to the few records that were […]
According to ethical hacking specialists, over the past weekend multiple Wikipedia sites for some regions of Europe and the Middle East experienced failures due to a denial of service (DDoS) attack; the organization claims that the incident is already being investigated through the Wikimedia Foundation, which is responsible for overseeing various aspects of the online […]
Wikipedia Hacked: cybercriminals have launched a massive DDOS attack on Wikipedia and take down the website in several countries in Europe and parts of the Middle East. Wikipedia is a global encyclopedia and worlds biggest knowledge repository accessed by more than a billion users every month. DDoS Attack is one of most dangerous threat for any […]
The DDoS attack on Wikipedia is first of its kind. The popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has suffered a DDoS attack over the weekend that crippled its service preventing millions of users from accessing the platform. On Friday according to Down Detector’s Outage Map, a service that keeps track of online platforms facing connectivity issues, Wikipedia […]
According to personal data protection specialists, Dr. Larry Sanger, one of Wikipedia’s founders, is inviting the people to stop using any social media platform for up to 48 hours in an attempt to pressure companies to grant control of personal data to users. Sanger has mentioned that his movement would “reaffirm mass demand, the need […]
Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, has called for a social media strike to demand decentralized social media platforms. He has urged users who are unhappy with social media websites to boycott the platforms on July 4 and 5 (at least one day). The motive behind the strike is to demand big corporations to give […]
Cryptojacking Malware called “Minr“ infected website has been linked with Wikipedia Page that leads to mine the cryptocurrency Monero (XMR). Wikipedia visitors who visiting the concern page and once a user clicks the link that pointed to the Malware infected website, the malicious script will be executed and visitor infected with “Minr” crypto-jacking malware. Researchers found that many […]
Wikipedia is like a vast trough of knowledge that often turns out to be useful in our daily lives. At many instances, Google pushes Wikipedia results towards the top in the search result pages to help you get the answers quickly. But, have you ever thought of using Wikipedia in terminal? It could be very […]
Short Bytes: In this article, I’m going to tell you how to use WhatsApp as a search engine by activating a WhatsApp bot. WhatsApp is one the most popular instant messaging apps and this feature could be used to get important information in the form of Wikipedia excerpts, news, dictionary etc. It should be noted the […]
OurMine hackers have found their new target and this time it’s WikiPedia co-founder Jimmy Wales The official Twitter account of Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia and Wikia web-hosting company was hacked by OurMine Hackers yesterday. After taking over Wales account the hackers defaced the Bio section and sent two tweets claiming […]
Loser.com domain owner is not a fan of Donald Trump ? Just like itanimulli.com (reverse of illuminti.com) redirects users to the official website of the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA), if you type in loser.com into your browser and press enter it will redirect you to the official WikiPedia page of none other than Donald Trump who unfortunately is […]
Short Bytes: Wikipedia is the world’s seventh most popular website. This free online encyclopedia has been providing us information from the past 16 years. Well, do you know Wikipedia’s official song? In this article, we are going to tell you about such lesser-known facts about the website. Take a look. Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, […]
Popular meme site Reddit has announced that it will soon encrypt all traffic with HTTPS by default.
Awesome News for Wikipedia Readers- Encrypted Connections Coming Your Way Pretty Soon. Currently, data between users and Wikipedia.com is unencrypted, and this increases the chances of being spied upon. However, now this scenario will be changed pretty soon. The Wikipedia Foundation announced on Friday that it is going to move its websites towards HTTPS by default […]
Wikimedia has announced that all of its web properties – including the enormously popular crowd-sourced dictionary Wikipedia – will now use HTTPS encryption by default.
A lawsuit has been filed against NSA (National Security Agency) to preserve the rights of the 500 million Wikipedia users who visit the website on a monthly basis. The reason apparently is the endangered democratic pillar of free exchange of knowledge and ideas. The mass or “upstream” surveillance on American territories by NSA potentially violates […]
Someone inside the senate is not much a pro to NSA’s whistleblower Snowden as they are using the platform of Wikipedia to express their view point. The page at Wikipedia which describes all about Edward Snowden who is known to have leaked many classified files of NSA has been revised on many occasions since he […]
We have heard about hacking into each other’s cyber territories but editing Wikipedia pages to send you message to the world was never a part of cyber war. In a recent attack by hackers from Phillipines, the details about “Sabah” were edited and the state was described as being “part of the Sultanate of Sulu”. Sabah is one […]
A coal firm in Indonesia named as Bumi has faced heavy crisis in the recent past, but, firm’s physical performance wasn’t the reason behind the crisis. It was through hacking, it all happened, the crisis that the firm is facing now is of such intensity that firm is now beginning to get offers to sell its current […]
Last week Christian Wikipedia website was hacked by Soldier of God ( S O G) hacker, leaving his deface page and a message on the website protesting against US and NATO forces involved in Burning Quran and killing of civilians around the world. Christian Wikipedia is an online platform for Christians, teaching and sending Biblical literature around the world. […]