Researcher from MWR labs won a prestigious prize $100,000, couple of days back at Vancouver researchers hacked Google chrome and showed at the Pwn2Own hacking competition. According to the hackers, it is possible to hack into any system via vulnerability on Google chrome. Whenever, a web surfer visits a malicious page on chorme it was […]
A hacker going with the handle of SiR Abdou has hacked and defaced 126 Russian websites in support of Palestine. SiR Abdou, who contacted me via Twitter, explained that reason to hack these sites is to register his protest against Israeli occupation of Palestine. The hacker left his deface page along with a message on […]
A Pakistani hacker going with the handle of Pakthtun72 from Pak Cyber Eaglez has hacked and defaced 187 websites along with two Egyptian websites, one from Government’s General Authority for Supply Commodities (gasc.gov.eg) and second from an Egyptian university (elmaref.edu.eg). The hacker, who contacted me via email, explained that reason for hacking these sites was to […]
The official website of antivirus service provider Avast along with 4 of its sub-domains, designated for Germany have been hacked and defaced by Maxney of Turkish Ajan group. As a result of hack, around 20,000 accounts and payment information of Avast’s online users have been leaked online. The hacker, who contacted me on Twitter, explained […]
Apple has finally fixed a vulnerability that was alerted about 6 six month back. This vulnerability was found in the iOS app store by Google. But, the interesting fact of the app was that it was reported by the Google’s security researcher, Elie Bursztein, but Apple doesn’t responded to it. This vulnerability could have been exploited over any public WIFI […]
In a report published by TechChurch, unknown hackers have attacked a Bitcoin brokerage company Bitinstant, breaching into its server and taking control of its DNS- server and stealing $12,000 worth of Bitcoins. Hackers used simple social social engineering techniques to take over company’s email servers and DNS domains. In the next step, the hackers log into another, VirWox (another Bitcoin […]
#OpIsrael is still up as Hitcher hacker from Muslim Liberation Army hacks 54 Israeli website couple of hours ago. Hitcher Hacker known for his high profile hacks has now hacked and defaced 54 Israeli websites, leaving his deface page along with a message in support of Palestine on all of the hacked sites. Gaza will […]
Malware infecting 25,000 computers, mostly in the United States, pumping out 80 million spam messages per hour? ESET researchers sinkhole to investigate Win32/TrojanDownloader.Zortob.B
The business-focused social network has seen a lawsuit related to the June 2012 hacking of its web site overturned in a San Jose federal court. The criminal hacking resulted in the release of 6.5 million passwords causing the Mountain View based company to instruct some of its members to reset their passwords, in a speedy response to the incident.
Results from an eight country Accenture survey shows that US doctors surveyed have mixed feelings about electronic patient records (EPR). While some 82 percent want patients to update their own records, only a third (31 percent) believe they should have full access.
The world renowned Saudi Aramco which is a national oil company of Saudi Arabia had its Twitter @Saudi_Aramco account hacked by a hacker going with the handle of Mister Rero. The hacker did not only hacked the account but also changed the account’s official logo into a picture of the Heath Ledger’s portrayal of “The Joker” from the […]
World renowned online hackavist NullCrew has defaced Time Warner for supporting Copyright Alert System (CAS), leaving the site with a cartoon gorilla deface page. The hack was announced by the group on their official Twitter account with a message explaining why the hack was done. We hacked Time Warner Cable, due to them attempting to participate in the […]
Last Saturday, the official Twitter account of South African Ministry of State Security @StateSecurityRS was hacked and diet loss Tweets were sent to its followers. Eduard Kovacs of SoftPedia reports that spammer who hacked the account was using it for Tweeting infamous-diet tweets until the account was regained and password changed. South African Ministry of State Security have confirmed that account […]
A hacker going with the handle of Godzilla has hacked an unofficial domain of Pakistan’s Intelligence Agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) (isi.org.pk). The hacker who who claimed to hack into MSSQL server containing 3 databases, with 9 users and located at mssql.isi.org.pk, which can be seen in below given screenshot. The site index page clearly mentions that […]
Seculert, an Israeli based company that detects viruses and other Advanced persistent threats (APT), has claimed to detect two different spear-phishing attacks which were using a fake Mandiant report to spy on Chinese and Japanese journalists. TheRegister reports that researchers are positive about the origin of these attacks is none other then China. “We resolved it and found it was reporting […]
A group of Malaysian hackers from KamiSec Team has hacked and defaced the official website of Yakima County Fire District #5 (ycfd5.org), along with 18 of its sub-domains. The hackers who contacted me via email explained that reason for hacking the website was to show their support for the people of Palestine. All 19 websites were successfully defaced and […]
Internet, during recent years, has become more then a place of just web surfing. It has become a place of great significance for all type of economic and cultural activities taking place around the world. But, since this has happened there have been a number of criminal uprisings in this it. Thus, have hurt the progress internet […]
Issues with malware are always with us. There may or may not be a current media storm, or companies hoping for a slice of the anti-malware pie by proclaiming the death of antivirus in a press release, but AV labs continue to slog their way every day through tens of thousands of potentially malicious samples.
The official website of Bangladeshi Supreme Court (supremecourt.gov.bd) and National Agricultural Technology Project (NATP) (natpdae.gov.bd), running directly under Ministry of Agriculture were breached and as a result the database along with user credentials were leaked by hacker going with the Twitter handle of @Phr0zenM. The hacker contacted me via Twitter explained that reason for breaching these sites was to register his […]
The official website of Pakistan’s Soneri Bank has been hacked and defaced by hackers from PakBugs. The website was left with a deface page along with a message, making fun of the bank, its admins for poor security and coding. On First Look I saw ” Security Seal of Norton Company ” But Soon After 5 minutes […]
The Indian Army’s Additional Directorate General of Public Information (ADGPI) has joined Twitter with the handle of @adgpi. Hindustan Times reports that, in a step to strengthen its relationship with social media users, the Army has decided to join Twitter and may expand its operation on other social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube in near future. The […]