Online gaming is great fun but it does bring together large numbers of online strangers, most of whom want just to play but some can pose a threat. Here’s our 10 top tips for staying safe when playing on consoles and PCs.
We tend to replace our computers more often these days but how do you ensure that you don’t give away your data when you pass on that old desktop or laptop? Here are our top tips for safer computer disposal. Back up your data Before you do anything with your existing PC or laptop, ensure
An Egyptian hacker Virus_Hima has said to found vulnerabilities in the official website of Yahoo. This is probably the second time in 2 months, when the hacker has found vulnerability in one of the major technology websites. While telling about the vulnerabilities he said that he got a complete hold of the backup of several yahoo domains. Among […]
In America, transit authorities have installed microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public buses in various cities including San Francisco, Eugene, Traverse City, Columbus, Hartford, and Athens. That means, now they can listen to every word you say! To add a little more shock, some of these systems have a technology for distinguishing conversations from the background […]
The official website of Westboro Baptist Church [godhatesfags.com] was hacked and private information was taken away by Anonymous hackers. Earlier in a video message, Anonymous warned Westboro Baptist Church against their conversational protest planned for Obama’s visit, the hackers also criticized the Church for protesting during military funerals throughout the United States. According to the video message: “We will not allow you to […]
The official website of Casio Electronics Taiwan was hacked and defaced by famous SaMuRai hacker from Turk Hack Team. The hacker also defaced 4 sub-domains of Casio Electronics, including 2 online stores of the company. In an email conversation, SaMuRai Hacker informed HackRead about the hack, the hacker left his usual deface page with a simple note: […]
The official Twitter account of Israels Tel Aviv Police has been hacked by Tunisian Hackers, the account which was used to send updates on Tel Aviv Police department is now sending tweets of being hacked by H3LM! hacker from Tunisia. According to the tweet: Hacked By H3LM! …. We Are Fallaga 🙂 The twitter account of Tel Aviv Police has 1,145 […]
As I have been keeping the readers updated on earlier defacement done by V!rus No!r, against South African websites. Here is another one as the hacker from Moroccan Agent Secret group has hacked 70 more South African websites. The hacker successfully hacked all the websites, leaving a deface page and a message for the government of South Africa against […]
As we know the Indo–Pak cyber war is at its peak, where hackers from both sides are attacking each other’s cyber world for victory. For same war, two Pakistani hackers by the handle of Sizzling Soul & Pakhtun~72 have defaced 100+ websites. In an email conversation with HackRead, the hackers said that reason for hacking these sites […]
Recently, some pictures of two new Samsung Galaxy smartphones have been caught in the wild. Some rumors about it did exist that the Korean handset maker was working on Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos and Galaxy SII Plus which did proved worthy enough after China’s TENAA certification process caught some photos of these devices. According to […]
When cyber criminals started to attack probably one of the most largest community or business running online i.e. Facebook. A cat mouse game began which meant some defensive measures taken by the online giant. The measures included providing awareness to the members regarding installing updated anti-virus programs to their PC This anti-virus was, however, developed to […]
With Solid State Drives (SSDs) reigning the market for data storage, Samsung managed to slice its way through with an aim to grab some market share for it’s SSD 830 series. This drive comes in different storage capacities like 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB. But here we’re considering the 128GB SSD of the 830 series which […]
The Chromebook is a concept designed by Samsung and Google to provide its users a fast, light, and an amazingly affordable laptop to run day-to-day programs. To be honest, it is not more than a laptop with a web browser & apps. Users are unable to run high-end games and process large files and applications. […]
Apple Inc., as suggested by many sources, is going to launch its Apple TV. According to venture capitalist Marc Andreessen who stated, “Apple is definitely coming out a television” at the DealBook conference on December 12, 2012, the TV would either be launched in 2014, or a year less (2013) or more (2015). Marc Andreessen […]
Two Nigerian hackers have been arrested for hacking into the emails of Ghana peacekeeping forcing and allegedly attempting to transfer $13,978 from the hacked emails. The hackers, Emmanuel Ifedi, 31 and Peter Okechukwu, 32, were arrested when they went to United Bank of Africa (UBA), in Accra, while trying to cash the stolen money. Both suspects were arrested by Criminal Investigations Department […]
With each passing day, cyber crimes are getting more and more sophisticated and difficult to deal with. Net surfers around the world are in serious confusion at the moment, especially, after the release of this new mysterious cyber crime that we will tell you about in this article. The crime came into the light after […]
Apple has been in news with concerns over it’s products since it’s iPhone 5 launch. But, those news aren’t the ones to be much concerned of for the team Apple. However, the recent news regarding Apple updated maps are much to concerned of for the team Apple. Apple launched it’s updated maps during September this year after […]
Do you know what your kids get up to online? They probably know more about technology than you do but they are still children and need protecting. Here are our top tips to ensure they remain safer. 1 Educate your children Children and young people spend huge amounts of time online and may not be
Thanks to THN for reporting this important hack, the official website of India’s state owned BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) bsnl.co.in India was hacked and 250 of its databases were deleted earlier this morning by Anonymous India. BSNL is an Indian state-owned telecommunications company headquartered in New Delhi, India. It is the largest provider of fixed telephony and fourth largest […]
[UPDATE #1: (21 Dec 2012, 5:30PM) ESET Researcher Cameron Camp has just published the second part of this series on securing your Android device. Read it here on the ESET Threat Blog at Securing Your Holiday Tech Gifts, Part 2: Android Guide. AG] December is upon us, and whether you have a Christmas tree, menorah,
A Turkish hacker who goes by the handle of GHoST61 has hacked around 475 Turkish websites, including two websites of Turkish Health Ministry. The hacker who claims to be a citizen of Turkish city Trabzon, defaced the sites today on 12/12/12, leaving his deface page but a very short message on all the hacked websites. The […]