The official website of Interpol Indonesia (http://www.interpol.go.id/) has been taken down by Fu7ion who calls himself a supporter and part of online hacktivist group Anonymous. Fu7ion says that he has taken Interpol Indonesia website under the banner of an online operation ”#OpThrowBack”. The operation was launched by Anonymous hackers yesterday against FBI, NSA, Verizon, Microsoft and […]
The pro – Assad hackers from Syrian Electronic Army managed to hack official Facebook and Social media accounts of American President Barak Obama and redirecting his official site (barackobama.com) to another page showing ”Hacked by SEA”. Obama’s website was redirected a couple of days ago while his social media accounts were hacked on Monday. SEA managed […]
[Update 30th October 2013: with regard to the ping gambit discussed below, please note that protection.com now responds to ICMP echo requests – in other words, if you now run the command “ping protection.com” you should now see a screen something like this: Note that this is perfectly normal behaviour for a site that responds
President Obama’s Twitter and Facebook accounts were briefly compromised this week – with two Tweets and one post altered to send links to video montages of terrorist attacks.
A new app, Truly.am, aims to put a stop to a fast-growing area of online fraud – online dating scams – by forcing cybercriminals to prove they are who they say they are.
An American artificial intelligence company claims to have “cracked” CAPTCHAs – the standard word tests used to tell humans and computers apart online. A program designed by Vicarious can break standard CAPTCHAs with 90% accuracy, Vicarious claims.
An invasion of fruity posts offering miraculous weight loss flooded Facebook and Twitter accounts linked to the social sharing app Buffer – appearing on official accounts for companies such as Brussels Airlines and Startup Genome.
Attackers used a Trojan program to target a security camera system in the Carmel Tunnels toll road in Haifa, shutting down the road for hours, and causing “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in damage.
In a massive hacking scandal, a leaked document belonging to the US intelligence shows that Israel is behind hacking of thousands of text messages and phone calls in France. A report publishing in Le Monde suggests that agents of Israeli intelligence Mossad has its hands behind a massive cyber attack in May 2012 on Elysee Palace, attempting to hack […]
The official website of National Security Agency (NSA) has been offline for last 30 minutes for unknown reason. It can be a DDoS attack or simply a maintenance issue, but for now its down and showing offline message. A screenshot taken from a website that shows domain up and down time shows that NSA site is […]
Diane Feinstein who is member of the senate committee of US and the lawmaker has said that she supports NSA and its surveillance programs. The agency has faced many allegations after Edward Snowden has released a lot of documents that show that NSA has been spying on the telephonic data of millions of US citizens. […]
Edward Snowden, the former contractor for NSA has released yet another classified document which states that around hundreds of telephone numbers of some of the top world leaders have been tapped by NSA. Guardian which is Britain’s newspaper has posted in its fresh release that Edward Snowden has provided a memo which states that the […]
When Google’s Safe Browsing service said that programming site PHP.net was hosting and serving malware, it sparked furious discussion – but the site investigated, and has since admitted a Javascript attack, and moved to “clean” servers.
Ransomware can be among the most frightening forms of malware – suddenly, your screen is replaced by a message from the police, demanding money, or a message saying your files are lost unless you pay a ransom to unlock them. Our tips will help you fight back.
A Panamanian hacker going with the handle of MrD0x has hacked and defaced 4 official domains of anti-virus company ESET distributor for Spain. MrD0x left a deface page along with a message on all 4 defaced domain which shows a short note of ‘D3fac3D By MrD0x’ and link of hacker’s Twitter handle. However, the reason for targeting ESET […]
A group of Malaysian hackers from KamiSecTeam has hacked and defaced the official website of Northern Region Civil Air Patrol of the United States Air force. Hackers left an image as a deface page on the hacked website with team’s name KamiSecTeam and official logo but reason for targeting the site was not mentioned anywhere. The hacked domain […]
A Tunisian hacker going with the handle of TN_X2X from Fallaga Team Tunisia has hacked and defaced the official website of African Petroleum Producers’ Association based in Lagos, Nigeria. The hack is a high profile where hacker left his deface page along with a message on the website, leaving an Islamic prayer. The deface message […]
Launched today in London, the technology mixes biometrics and other security technologies for what its makers claim is a “transformative” solution to combating cybercrime – and which can be used for network security, banking machines and even smartphones.
As both Macs and Mac malware increase in prevalence, the importance of testing the software intended to supplement the internal security of OS X increases too. But testing security products on Mac is tricky, due to Apple’s own countermeasures. Can it be made easier?
We have already discussed how a system gets infected with Win32/Nymaim ransomware. In this blog post, we reveal a new infection vector, a study of the different international locker designs and ransom prices as well as a complete technical analysis of its communication protocol.
Routers from Chinese manufacturer Tenda contain a hidden “backdoor” which could allow attackers to “take over” the router and send it commands. The company also sells routers branded as Medialink, and the machines are available around the world.