The official websites of NASA (http://www.nasa.gov) and National Park ()have been shutdown until further notice by the United Stated Government. It is not some kind of cyber attack but a step taken as a result of Government Shutdown. NASA website has been redirected to http://notice.usa.gov, showing a message of shutdown until further notice. The message […]
Facebook Will Send Conversation Data To Select TV Networks. According to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, social networking website Facebook will share the conversation data that relate to the views, comments, likes and actions that are generated by users regarding different TV shows. The aim behind sharing such data is to provide […]
The hardcore supporters of President Bashar Ul Assad from Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) have hacked the official website of U.S. based online news website Global Post along with its Twitter account. Reason for hacking GlobalPost was mentioned by the hackers in the Tweets sent via site’s official Twitter account, according to which GlobalPost was found publishing […]
John McAfee who is the founder of McAfee anti-virus has told that he will unveil a gadget that would enable internet users to protect their activities and privacy from spying eyes of the NSA. He has named the gadget as D-central and says that it will be devised with a cost of less than 100 […]
The online hacktivist going with the handle of AnonGhost has hacked and defaced a website belonging to an Israel based Defense Contractor ISPRA Israel Product Research Co. LTD. dealing with developing, manufacturing and marketing of non lethal devices for riot control, crowd management, anti terror equipment and police gear. Hacker left a deface page along with […]
The official website of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) http://www.usda.gov/fundinglapse.htm has been shutdown until further notice by the United Stated Government. It is not some kind of cyber attack but a step taken as a result of Government Shutdown. At this time the website is showing a message, explaining the reason for taking the […]
Logging into public Wi-Fi hotspots can be risky, particularly for business users with sensitive data on their devices – but a new breed of hi-tech hotspots may make things safer, the Wi-Fi Alliance claims.
An Israeli security researcher has found another way round Apple’s Fingerprint ID security system – this time via a two-step lock-screen glitch which works with the new iOS update 7.0.2.
Some of the US officials of the Navy have stated that some hackers from Iran have penetrated into the unclassified computer networks of the US navy. On December 06, 2012, I reported that US Navy facing 110,000 cyber attacks every hour. Now The Wall Street Journal has published a report on 27th September in which they […]
Britain Military Going Cyber- Warriors: MoD to hire hundreds of Cyber Geniuses and IT Professionals for their Military Cyber Units. Britain’s ministry of defense has announced that they are formulating a military cyber team and have welcomed hackers plus IT professionals to join the units as the recruitment process is starting from October. The UK […]
Spear-phishing attacks on energy companies are becoming increasingly sophisticated, an expert has warned – and all it takes is one lucky strike to cause devastating damage to the power grid, or to companies which supply oil and gas.
Two Pakistani hackers going with the handle of Dr@cul@ and Muhammad Bilal have hacked and defaced twenty thousand (20,000) Indian websites against Indian government and in support of alleged freedom movement in Indian administrated Kashmir. All sites were left with a deface page along with a message in support of Kashmir, asking Indian government to […]
A new declassified document of NSA reveals that the agency spied communications of Muhammad Ali, Art Buchwald and MLK. During the midst of the protest against the Vietnam War, NSA has been doing some spying activities. Some classified documents of NSA have been declassified as they were revealed this Wednesday show that the NSA officials […]
One day, your smartphone might “recognise” you by the way you walk, the way your fingers tap on a touchscreen – or even simply where you go during the day. Habits such as your walk can be as distinctive as a fingerprint, researchers claim.
Small businesses will be able to buy “cyber assurance” packages to protect against possible losses from cyber attacks – with a British insurance firm offering packages starting at £500 ($800).
An “identity theft service” which specialises in selling personal details gained access to some of the biggest consumer data firms, including Lexis Nexis and Kroll – and has had access to their computer systems “for months”. Stars such as Beyonce (pictured) had personal details leaked.
The following report was taking from an independent news source, original report is available @ National Report. We at HackRead do not take responsibility of authenticity for this news. As technology is getting more and more sophisticated, users are showing more and more concerns about their privacy issue. They want their gadgets to be […]
Since Senator. Al- Franken has become of part of the United States Senate, he has been the Chairman of Senate Judiciary Subcommittee which deals with issues related to Privacy, Technology and the Law. He has been quite clear in his stance which has been to raise and address the questions related to surveillance and technology […]
There is a new bot on the block. ESET identifies it as Win32/Napolar while its author calls it solarbot. This piece of malware came to our attention mid-August because of its interesting anti-debugging and code injection techniques.
Yahoo! recently began recycling “inactive” user accounts, in an effort to woo new customers – but some customers who have acquired these “second-hand” email addresses say they are receiving a “bonus” of personal information relating to the old owners.
Yesterday I updated you with NYPD’s activity where it was found running a campaign, asking users to upgrade their iPhone and iPads to newly released iOS7. Now An advert has gone viral, asking Apple users to update their iPhones to newly released iOS 7 in order to make their devices fully waterproof but according to reports […]