Fake adverts could be used to “remote control” internet browsers on a massive scale – allowing for cheap DDoS attacks, where millions of unwitting web users “attack” target sites.
An Indian hacker going with the handle of Spider64 has hacked and defaced the official websites of Indian High Commission in Pakistan. The site was hacked today, left with a deface page along with a message but reason for targeting Indian High Commission site was not mentioned anywhere. The message on the deface page was […]
The well known Algerian hacker going with the handle of Over-X is back, this time by hacking and defacing 2 official websites of United nations (UN) designated for the Republic of the Philippines. One site belongs to United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and second site belongs to United Nations Volunteers (UNV), left with a deface page along with a […]
A well known hacker going with the handle of Dr.SHA6H has hacked and defaced 3 official websites of automobile and motor companies including Dodge, formally the Dodge Division of Chrysler Group, FIAT motors Australia and FIAT New Zealand. The sites were hacked today and left with a deface page and a message in support of people of Syria and […]
Meet XKeyscore a tool used by NSA which can track and store everything a user does through the internet — XKeyscore allows the collection of the widest range of data that is served online — The analysts working for NSA need no pre-approval for conducting any searches — Sweeps all the browsing history, activities in social media and […]
Borrowing an iPhone charger – or using one in a public place – might be more risky than you think. Researchers from Georgia Tech showed off an attack this week which used a modified iPhone charger to infect an iPhone 5 with spyware in under a minute.
One in six adults use the name of a pet as the basis of their password, and two-thirds use their partner’s name, according to a new survey commissioned by Google.
A new ransomware infection scares its victims by invoking the name of the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Cyber Security Division – and frightens users further by posting a webcam picture.
NSA‘s whistleblower Edward Snowden has left the airport after receiving 1 year asylum in Russia from the government. RT reports that Snowden’s representative Anatoly Kucherena has confirmed that NSA’s whistleblower has been granted a temporary political asylum in the Russian Federation. I have just handed over to him papers from the Russian Immigration Service. They are what he needs to leave the transit […]
An Israeli based internet surveillance company ‘Verint Systems‘ is all set to win a contract from Department of Telecommunications, government of India to assist it with encrypted internet communications services such as Skype, Hotmail, Gmail and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry (RIM) amid growing cyber security concerns in the country. EconomicTimes reports that a team of Verint Systems met Indian communications minister Kapil Sibal in […]
A Us solider by the name of Bradley Manning who is known to have handed over thousands of confidential government documents to WikiLeaks is now facing a sentence to spend his remaining life behind bars. He faces the sentence despite the fact that he was found non-guilty in the accusation of helping out Al-Qaeda in […]
Members of a Russian cybercrime forum attempted to frame respected security blogger Brian Krebs by mailing 13 bags of heroin to his home and alerting police.
A hacker going with the handle of @Phr0zenM on Twitter has claimed to leak 33,895 login details of Israeli citizens after breaching several Israeli websites. The hacker calls this leak as a part of #OpIzzah and #OpIsrael in response to #OpIslam started couple of months ago by Israeli hackers. After analyzing the dumped login accounts , I have […]
Cyber war between Bangladeshi and Indonesian hackers is at peak where hackers from both sides are attacking each other’s cyber space, this time the official website of McDonalds Indonesia was hacked and defaced by BD Grey Hat Hackers. The same day a Pakistani hacker aiding Bangladeshi hacker going with the handle of Dr@cul@ had hacked and defaced 914 […]
A Twitter account used by international news agency Thomson Reuters was compromised this week, by hackers affiliated to the Syrian Electronic Army.
The hackers from Syrian Electronic Army have hacked the official Twitter account of New York based multinational media and information firm Thomson Reuters Corporation. After getting access of Reuters’s Twitter account, hackers started tweeting images and messages expressing their show of power which can be seen in above given screenshot. Hackers known for their hardcore support for Syrian President […]
Recently, our anti-virus laboratory discovered an interesting new modification of a file virus known as Expiro which targets 64-bit files for infection. File-infecting viruses are well known and have been studied comprehensively over the years, but malicious code of this type almost invariably aimed to modify 32-bit files. One such family of file viruses, called
X-ray result of bird detained for spying Last week Turkish authorities had captured a bird suspecting it was spying for Israel, but later freed it when X-ray results showed that no surveillance equipment was embedded with it. Reuters reported that kestrel bird was found with a metal ring on its foot with words like “24311 Tel Avivunia Israel” […]
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Earlier estimates of “trillion-dollar” damage to the world economy may have overstated the financial impact of cybercrime, according to a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Just few moments ago the official Twitter account of United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan was hacked by an unknown hacker. The Twitter account with more then 813,333 account was illegally acceded by intruder found tweeting the Foreign Minister’s blackberry pin number but for privacy reasons we will not post any screenshot […]