Yahoo Inc. has announced that around 435,000 emails and passwords have been hacked and leaked online by a hacking group known as D33D Company. According to the security firm TrustedSec, the hacked emails and passwords have been to be stored without encryption and in a plain text. That means anyone can change the passwords and use the information. TrustedSec […]
If a service leaks your credentials, your options are limited, but changing all your passwords to something harder to guess/break is never a bad idea.
There are always people who want to piggy-back on the achievements of others. After ESET warned the public against ACAD/Medre.A in two blogs here and here and issued a free standalone cleaner for remediation, there was always the possibility that drawing attention to the issue would result in the topic being misused for other purposes.
The website of Cyber Crime Cell of Tamil Nadu Police Department has been allegedly taken down by a hacktivist group named ‘Anonymous.’ Director General of Police K Ramanujam said in a press release. “NIC is examining how the breach took place. Cyber Crime Cell has been directed to take up investigation. However no defacing of the website […]
Unknown hackers have published 6,700 login details of bank staff including their email and passwords. Most of the passwords belong to civil service, Health Service Executive (HSE) and staff from the Bank of Ireland, according to the Garda Computer Crime Investigation Unit. The passwords are most likely specific to that defunct website rather than to sensitive private accounts. However, it […]
News.Softpedia came up with an interesting update on hackavist groups like Anonymous and RedHack, according to which Anonymous hackers have threatened Turkey for adding RedHack group on the list of terrorist organizations. Turkish government added the hackavist group into the list of terrorist when its Ministry of Foreign Affairs website was defaced by the group. Right after the hack, the country’s officials […]
A Dutch based nationalist hacking group Poltergeisth4cker has hacked over 66 Iranian and Chinese websites. Hackers left a deface message in support of Christians and asking the Iran and China to stop the war and stop killing Christians, along with their contact email and twitter account. According to the Poltergeisth4cker deface message: Hacked by Poltergeisth4cker Fr0m The […]
Four months ago we updated you with DNSChanger Trojan, which was supposed to effect internet service around the world and how FBI was supposed to shutdown the internet, then we updated you how FBI got four additional months to secure internet from DNSChanger malware. The four months are over now as there are warnings issued on Facebook, Google […]
World renowned hackavist group TeaMp0isoN has announces to finish its hackavist journey and shutdown the group forever. The announcement was made by one of the member of TeaMp0isoN on their official Twitter account and later a good bye message was also posted on pastebin. TeaMp0isoN has appreciated people’s support all the way, no matter if the times were good or hard. However it […]
Evidence that criminals are targeting the computer systems of small businesses continues to mount. The Wall Street Journal recently drew attention to the way cybercriminals are sniffing out vulnerable firms. The article highlighted the fact that about 72% of the 855 data breaches world-wide last year that were analyzed in Verizon’s Data Breach Investigation Report
Famous Hacktivists group RedHack has once again successfully hacked a Turkish government website, this time its the sub-domain of Turkish Foreign Ministry. Link of hacked website: Link of website mirror: Hackers left their deface page on the website in which Turkey’s prime minister, Tayyp Erdogan is greeting Syrian president Bashar ul Asad and (Late) Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. RedHack also […]
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The official Twitter account of The Stream (@AJStream), which is a social media show of international news channel Al-Jazeera English has been hacked by hackers who support Syrian President Bashar Assad. The Stream is a web community and daily television show powered by social media and citizen journalism targeting online audiences. Hackers are now posting pro-Assad material on the […]
The WikiLeaks official website has announced on Thursday that it had begun publishing more than 2 million hacked emails from Syrian government officials that would humiliate not only the President Bashar al-Assad but also many hidden faces. This leak will ruin the remaining credibility of the ruling regime in Syria, which is busy in massacring the rebellion for last 16-months. According to Wikileaks website: […]
The Arab Anonymous group has published a list of over 1300 Israeli emails and password that were hacked 2 days ago by the same Arab faction of Anonymous. The Arab Anonymous on Sunday posted the leak on their website and on their facebook page, where most of the emails are still active. Although it is unclear from […]
Iran’s state TV has accused the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) for hacking into the official website of the channel and changing the results of a poll about Iran’s nuclear programme. According to the BBC’s Farsi (Persian) language channel report, ”the poll showed 63% of those who took part favoured halting uranium enrichment in exchange for an end to […]
British politician, chairman of the British National Party (BNP) and Member of the European Parliament for North West England Nick Griffin’s offical website hack been taken down by famous Anonymous hackers. The website is still down and showing following message. Few days ago, hackavist group Anonymous had announced that they will attack Nick Griffin’s for his far-right views in the […]
Trick aka Junaid Hussain, the famous hacker from TeaMp0isoN has been jailed for stealing and posting personal details of former British PM Tony Blair on the internet. Junaid Hussain, who is 18 years old British Pakistan from Birmingham, hacked into the personal Gmail account of the former Prime Minister’s special adviser Katy Kay using an ID ‘Trick”. […]
New Zealand’s High Court judge Justice Helen Winkelmann has declared that The search warrants which were used to raid and arrest the home of MegaUpload owner Kim Dotcom were invalid. FBI’s action of copying data from Megaupload owner Kim Dotcom’s server and taking at back to US was also considered unlawful. MegaUpload owner who is currently on bail was arrested in January 2011, along […]
We have been following the development of the Win32/Gataka banking Trojan for several months and can now share some details of its operation which includes facilitating fraudulent bank transfers. This first post will highlight some of its key features, while the second will detail several interesting, more technical aspects of this malware. This banking Trojan
Cyber world was stunned when FBI announced arrest news of famous hacker Mr Badoo aka Ali Hassan, now the retaliation by other hacker has begen as Hitcher hacker has hacked Isreal Ministry of Finance Unit Lehava Website in protect against the arrest. The hack was announced by Hitcher on his twitter account: Hitcher left following message on the […]