Backtrack to be Reborn as Kali Linux

Backtrack development team has announced that Backtrack  is in process of a major change and the operating system will replaced by the name of Kali. Initially Backtrack was born for personal use by its developers now known as the world number one Pantesing Platform with new tools and options, which is a great news for everyone. […]

Wall Street Journal: We were also hacked by Chinese hackers

Wall Street Journal has announced that just like New York Times, their computers were also hacked by hackers from China making it a second major cyber attack on major US news outlet. The WSJ reported that the like NYT, hackers spied on their coverage specifically related to China for last four months. The Chinese response over hacking allegation remains the same, […]

Java vulnerability woes continue as Apple blocks access

The uncertainty around Java shows no sign of abating as Apple blocks all versions of Java on OS 10.6 and above through its anti-malware security applet, XProtect. This follows the blocking in all but name by Mozilla as it moved to end auto-loading of plug ins for the Firefox browser.

Cat Loving Hacker hacks Cat Hater Website

A group of cat loving hackers have launched cyber attack on a controversial Cats to Go website belonging to New Zealand’s economist and a cat hater Gareth Morgan, as a result of attack the website was hacked and defaced.   The hacker left a deface page showing a cat handling Morgan in its hands and a  note on the site, according to which: Cats […]

Mozilla FireFox Norway Website Hacked by PakCyberPyrates

The official website of FireFox designated for Norway (firefox.no) was hacked and defaced by XXx_Death_xXX of PakCyberPyrates from Pakistan. The site which was hacked on 24th of this month, took sometime to be restored as the hackers left their deface page along with a message on the main page of  Mozilla website, a software community best known for […]

New York Times Computers Hacked Allegedly by Chinese Hackers

The officials at New York Times Newspaper have confirmed that their computers were hacked allegedly by Chinese hackers for over past 4 months.  As a result passwords of 53 journalists at New York Times Newspaper were hacked around 13 September, the hackers specifically spied on the accounts of those journalists working on 25th October story on investigation into the financial affairs of Chinese […]

Uzbeki State Television And Radio Company’s Website Hacked by Clone-Security Hacker

The official website of Uzbekistan’s National Television and Radio Company (mtrk.uz) has been hacked by a hacker going with the handle of Clone Security for operation #OpAntiLAGMON and #OpWhereisSecurity. On January 30, the hacker announced this hack his official Twitter account which soon made a breaking news in Uzbekistan. The hacker who is a part of Uzb3k Cyber […]

Bill Shocker Malware controls 620,000 phones, Zombifies to sends expensive messages

NQ Mobile,a mobile security company that provides solution for protecting mobile device from malware, spyware, theft, and loss has found a new malware the “Bill Shocker” that has already infected over 620,000 users in only China and now posing a serious threat to all unprotected Android devices globally.  Net-Security reports that the Bill Shocker is a (SDK) developed by […]

Emerald City Comicon Website Hacked and Deleted

The official website of Emerald City Comicon (ECCC), the biggest comic book conventions in the US said that some unknown hackers have hacked their website along with all the back up files.  The hackers deleted all the backup files and redirected the Emerald City Comicon website to their Facebook page. According to the organizers of the event: We […]

Samsung Galaxy S4 to have Eye pause and scroll features

Samsung Galaxy S4 has already become a hot product of 2013, even before its full launch. Every day, there is some news about the features of this elite product of 2013, but, this time around probably one of the most worthwhile feature of the phone has been revealed i.e. Eye pause and eye scroll. This […]

Indonesia #TangoDown: Anonymous takes down Ministry of Tourism, Embassy & National Portal website

The Anonymous hackers have attacked some high profile Indonesian government owned websites for two of their operations #OpFreeWildan #FreeAnon.  The websites were taken down as a result of a DDoS attack which was announced by one of Anonymous hacker on his official Twitter account, according to which:  The targeted sites includes Indonesian Ministry of Tourism and Creative […]

Internet Cafe Operator Arrested for Allegedly Hacking Indonesian Presidential Website

Earlier I updated you regarding a successful hacking attack on Indonesian Presidential website by Jember Hacker Team. Today the Indonesian police has arrested an Internet cafe operator from the East Java district of Jember for allegedly hacking the presidential website.  The 22 years old, Wildan Yani Ashari is an Indonesian citizen who works at an Internet cafe as an operator. The cafe is […]

11 Sub-domains of University of New South Wales UNSW Hacked by s13doeL

A hacker going with the handle of s13doeL has hacked and defaced 11 sub-domains of Australia’s University of New South Wales. The hacker seems to found some kind of vulnerability on university’s server, allowing him to get it and hacked only the sub-domains but not the main domain.  The hacked sub-domains belong to different departments and labs of […]

12 Vietnamese Government Website Hacked by Moroccan Ghosts

The hackers from Moroccan Ghosts collectively have hacked and defaced 12 Vietnamese government owned websites. The hacked websites includes National Committee on Ageing, Union Water Resources Planning and Investigation Authority and North-South Expressway etc.  In an email conversation, the hackers explained that this is their first ever attack on Vietnamese government websites and the attack will continue until the Vietnam government […]

Google Morocco and Google Saint Helena Hacked by ZombiE_KsA of PakBugs

It happened few days ago but its worth posting, the famous hackers going with the handle of ZombiE_KsA, Agd_Scorp and Z3r0Byt3 from PakBugs collectively hacked and defaced three official Google domains. One from Saint Helena and two of Google Morocco.  Google Morocco was hacked on 2013/01/22 and Google Saint Helena on 2013/01/29. The hackers left their deface page along […]

Sony fined £250000 for PlayStation Security Breach in 2011

UK authorities have fined Sony PlayStation with a fine of $400,000 on the charges of breaching passwords of several users in the year 2011. But, Sony since the induction of the fine has been facing losses/expenditures far greater than $400,000. According to them, only the insurance of their systems and staff costs $171M which has become difficult […]

China admits cyber warfare unit in People’s Liberation Army

The Chinese government for the first time admitted that it has highly skilled group of hackers in its army; supported, equipped and trained by the government officials.  Channel4 reports that an intelligence source inside the army shared the secret information which confirms the presence of hackers in the Chinese army that are will be used at the time […]

Brazilian Military Police & 26 Govt Websites Hacked by Ashiyane Digital Security Team

The internationally recognized hackers from Ashiyane Digital Security Team has attacked Brazilian cyber space, as a result 27 high profile Brazilian government got hacked, including the official websites of Brazilian Military Police and The Attorney General’s Office. While scrolling Zone-h, I got hold of latest cyber attack conducted by the group shows that all 27 websites were successfully defaced, deface page and […]

17 Chinese held in Philippines for Cyber-crime

The Philippine police last week arrested a group of 15 Chinese women and 2 men. This group was arrested on behalf of a fraudulent activity they carried out over the internet successfully. After week of thorough investigations the police declared this group criminals after which the Chinese police was after.  Previously, Chinese police has contacted […]