Hello Everyone, Yesterday I wrote about the what code should you learn in 2015?. Today I’m covering the trends of the top programming languages on GitHub which has 2.2 million active repositories and 3.4 million users. GitHub is one of the favorite websites of programmers, developers and geeks, and they are constantly raving about it. It […]
On Wednesday 17th Feb, 2015, a group of hacktivists calling themselves “The oppressed defenders” conducted a cyber attack on Saudi Arabian based bank AlJazira in shape of a Distributed denial of service attack (DD0S). As a result the online banking and e-service domains of bank AlJazira were forced to go offline for more than thirty minutes. One of the hacker told HackRead […]
Last month I felt the need to convert some image to editable text, so I searched the web and came across few converters/software. But, none of them were free and they asked for a good amount of money. This conversion is performed using Optical Character Recognition Software (OCR). Today in the morning, I was doing […]
Over 60% Dating Apps Detected Unsafe by IBM Security – Popular Dating Apps Making Users Vulnerable to a Variety of Cybercrimes. Mobile Dating apps are used by millions on their smartphones because in today’s dating-oriented culture these apps allow singles to find love interests conveniently. Various apps like Tinder, Match and OkCupid have garnered immense fan […]
Hackers have breached the billing and payment pages of BigFish Games and stolen sensitive information, according to the company’s notification letter published on 11 February 2015. BigFish Games, founded in 2002, is ranked 1,589 in the United States and 2,817 globally, according to Alexa. The hackers intercepted the customer payment information and might have stolen […]
WWE superstar Antonio Cesaro was the victim of a Twitter hack this week, as a wrestling fanatic hacked his account to vent against company chairman and CEO Vince McMahon.
Possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush has has had to retroactively redact over 12,000 personal details from emails published in the name of transparency
The online hacktivist AnonGhost is back in action. This time by defacing the official website of an Army and Navy Academy, a Carlsbad, California based private military boarding school. The attack was conducted under the banner of #OpChapelHill that explains the reason for targeting website of this boarding school was to protest against the killings of three American Muslims […]
Officials from Cybercrime Circle of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) have revealed that two of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s ten most-wanted cyber criminals have been arrested by their department on FBI’s request. The suspects Noor Azizuddin and Farhanul Arshad were arrested from their house in Federal B Area in a pre-dawn raid by FIA. […]
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The US National Security Agency (NSA) hid undetectable spying software within the hard drives of computers, be it of any make, says a Moscow-based cyber security researcher and software maker. Several personal computers (more than tens of thousands) in more than 30 countries were infected with one or more of the spying programs, said Kaspersky […]
Egypt and Gaza-based hackers seem to have united against the Israeli government, military network and research infrastructure since the traces of two ongoing malware attacks lead to Gaza- reveals Trend Micro report. Trend Micro’s report didn’t specifically name the targeted or affected websites and Israel’s National Cyber Authority spokesperson states that the government hasn’t received […]
While you were celebrating valentines day, the hackers were busy doing what they are good at. Yes, on 14th Feb, 2015, a China-based Bitcoin exchange Bter (bter.com) came under massive breach in which $1.75 million worth of Bitcoin was stolen. Though the company is not revealing much information about the breach other than accepting that hackers […]
The official verified Twitter account of WWE superstar Antonio Cesaro (@WWECesaro) was hacked earlier Tuesday by unknown hacker wishing cancer to the company’s Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon. The account with 559K followers has been restored and tweets against McMahon have been deleted. Below is a screenshot users were able to save before it was deleted by Twitter authorities. […]
Visa, famed payment processing company, will be rolling out its new software with location-tracking capabilities this summer. It will allow banks to automatically know the cardholder’s current location through the location-tracking function present in almost all smartphones. This may sound like the bank becoming your “big brother” however, it will be immensely helpful for cardholders […]
Here’s a good news for the Apple users who are in love with Windows 10. Parallels Desktop 10 has just released an update which now enables the users to download and install the Windows 10 Technical Preview and the Windows 10 Office Preview on their Macs. This option gives the users a choice to get […]
Russian authorities have indicated that VPNs and online anonymising software Tor could soon be banned for the country’s 143.5 million residents.
An email is being received by users of Microsoft’s email accounts claiming to be sent from Windows Outlook. It has been titled C-93 Virus Alert and informs the user that a virus has been detected by Microsoft in your mailbox. Also present in that email is the method to eliminate this virus. It says that […]
There are ways to map the WiFi signal in your home or surrounding in 2D but it has some limitations. A YouTuber CNLohr has developed a low-tech way to map and visualize the WiFi strength of a space in 3D. Watch this visualization here. This system is similar to a WiFi radar, making the use […]
On 14th February, 2015, when people were busy celebrating Valentines day; the ISIS hackers were busy targeting UAE’s oldest Arabic language newspaper Al Ittihad. The ISIS hackers successfully hacked and defaced Al Ittihad website with logo of their own including a black flag with Arabic text and three militants dressed in soldiers’ attire holding rifles. The Abu Dhabi based editor-in-chief […]
According to a report by security firm Kaspersky Labs, numerous banks of Russia, the Unites States, Japan and Europe have been the victim of a malware attack since 2013, which has now turned out to become one of the largest bank thefts in history. The concerned report will be made public on Monday by the […]