The infamous online hacker group Anonymous’ Quebec branch has taken the credit for penetrating the Montreal Police department website and the officers’ union. On Friday, at 10:30PM, the Montreal police website went down and minutes later the Montreal police brotherhood also was shut down. The Police department website remained off until Saturday. According to a […]
Dark web marketplaces are famous for their pharmaceuticals and weapons souks but nowadays a lot more variety has been lurking there than drugs and guns. You can buy almost anything you want. Researchers at an Ireland based Fraud Prevention software developer firm Trustev revealed that numerous small-scale marketplaces sell unusual stuff like Spotify accounts and […]
Domanik Green, a 14-year-old student studying at Florida’s Paul R. Smith Middle School managed to bypass the school’s computer security network using just his computer skills and gained access to the server that contained FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test) data. FCAT data is basically a standardized evaluation, which requires to be administered every year for […]
China to Use Stronger Weapons to Censor the Web and it is called Great Cannon — It can block websites and interrupt international traffic like no one else. Lately, China has been bombarding American websites with Internet traffic in a bid to take out such services that let China’s web users to view websites that […]
Ransomware equipped with encryption capabilities has been victimizing police departments rather indiscriminately nowadays. Although paying ransom to hackers is not recommended because it encourages cybercriminals to continue adopting these measures to obtain money via blackmailing but in order to avoid losing data that has been encrypted through malware activity is next to impossible. The only remedy […]
Feels good to have lots of options to choose from, right? Then why stick to just one Operating System for a lifetime, it’s time you go out and try out the other distributions. The majority of OS other than Windows belongs to the Linux base. Linux Distros are huge in number, beautiful in design, innovative […]
Online hacktivist Anonymous has breached into an Israeli gun shop website (lhbltd.com) and leaked login credentials plus personal details of its local and international customers, including some government officers. The leaked data files have been divided and posted in three different parts on Pastie sites for OpIsrael. After analyzing the data, we found out that data […]
Is ISIS Behind BBC’s ‘Operational error’ that Interrupted its Broadcast and Left presenter flustered? Supposedly, BBC News Channel fell prey to a cyber-attack from ISIS when ‘hackers’ were able to interrupt the channel’s live broadcast and upload propaganda material of Islamic State. The appearance of the words “Je suIS IS” on TV Screens left viewers stunned […]
Following the footsteps of Microsoft, Amazon has launched its first product for machine learning service. At the AWS Summit in San Francisco, Amazon Web Services announced a new machine learning platform. Amazon Web Services debuted a service that developers can use to implement machine learning in their applications. Recently, Microsoft announced Azure Machine Learning, which […]
In order to disperse protesters, Police in India will now use drones equipped with pepper spray. Is it possible to register police misconduct complaint against a machine? This is the question that protesters in Uttar Pradesh, India, may need to find answer of soon because Uvalde and Lucknow police departments are now going to be […]
Facebook can Track Non-Users through ‘a bug’ — Working to fix it as fast as possible. Researchers at Facebook identified a “bug” that allowed them to track people who haven’t ever visited the website. The discovery was made public by Richard Allen, the European policy vice president of the social networking giant, in a blogpost […]
Anonymous hacked several Chinese government websites including the Hunan (a province in China) Police Academy website in solidarity with pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. The hacker behind this hack goes with the handle of @AnonymousGlobo on Twitter, who has been involved in several cyber attacks on different websites in past. AnonymousGlobo left a deface page along with a message […]
The Internet was lit up by John Oliver’s interview with Edward Snowden since the host actually managed to make his chat subject talk about dick pics, laugh and give high five. The information revealed during dick pics discussion has encouraged the launch of a website that informs about the U.S government/NSA‘s capabilities to access utterly […]
Two officers from Georgia’s correction facility had to resign when the picture of a beaten teen inmate having a leash bent around his neck was posted online on Facebook seemingly with a contraband mobile phone. According to authorities, two prisoners from the Al Burruss Correctional Training Centre involved in the March 27 incident were transferred […]
Facebook is back in the news, this time again for violating its users’ privacy by gathering a huge mass of facial data. A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the social media giant last week and it is claimed that the Facebook’s data-collection program titled automatic face-tagging feature has helped Facebook create “the largest privately held stash […]
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned the WordPress users and urged them to patch their plugins of the content management system in the wake of recent ISIS hacks and future possibilities. In the recent past, the ISIS supporting cyber criminals have hacked the self-hosted WordPress websites and because of the unpatched plugins […]
Australia’s Bendigo Bank is apparently sending out emails titled “Morning Update” to users. The email contains the staff member’s name as well as the direct contact phone number. It also contains a business disclaimer having the email ID and phone number of Bendigo Bank. This mail also contains an attachment, a .Zip file titled Bendigo_Report_#[random […]
AnonGhost hacktivist group’s leader and founder, Mauritania Attacker, revealed on Tuesday that his team has funded Palestinian charities through stolen Israeli credit cards during OpIsrael. AnonGhost, the hacktivist group, acquired access to credit card credentials of Israelis by hacking into dozens of websites from Israel. According to Mauritania, until now the group has managed to churn […]
The reformed conman that the 2002 film ‘Catch Me If You Can’ is based on has told The Times that anyone living in the US or UK has already had their identity stolen.
A Chrome extension designed for taking and annotating screenshots has been found to be leaking sensitive data from its 1.2 million users.
Vifm What is Vifm (Vi File Manager)? Vifm is a ncurses library based file manager for Linux which allows you to perform almost every file related task (like viewing, moving, deleting etc) right from the shell. It has no GUI, so each task needs to be performed using the keyboard. This might seem odd to some […]