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Romanian authorities arrested Marcel Lazăr Lehel, a Romanian suspected of being the notorious hacker Guccifer, on Wednesday in Arad County, Romania. Guccifer’s latest victim was the acting administrator of the US Nuclear Security Agency’s (NNSA), Neile Miller. He is believed to have hacked her email and Facebook accounts. It was not clear if he got […]
Password security company Splashdata has released a new version of its annual list of the world’s worst passwords – and ‘password’, last year’s number one, has been unseated by ‘123456’, thanks largely to passwords revealed in the recent Adobe breach.
What could have been the motivation for Snowden to become the whistleblower? This question intrigued many ever since Edward Snowden, the ex-NSA contractor, leaked intelligence documents and sought asylum in Moscow. Two of the top intelligence officials of the US intelligence community share a common thinking on this question. Rep. Mike Rogers, chairperson of the […]
A famous Indonesian hacker going with the handle of SultanHaikal from Gantengers Crew has hacked and defaced total 6 official domains of Ubuntu One. The targeted domains redirect users to one.ubuntu.com. Ubuntu One which is a cloud service and OpenID-based single sign on service operated by Canonical Ltd, had 6 of its domains defaced few hours ago. SultanHaikal from Gantengers […]
The city of Chicago recently announced a change to the curriculum for schools in their district that would introduce children as young as primary school to computer science concepts. It would also allow students to count computer science as a core subject that fulfills graduation requirements. What does this say about the current state of computer-related education?
A group of hackers going with the handle of AnonSec has hacked and defaced 720 random websites from all over the world. Group has left a deface page along with a message on all hacked websites, bashing admins for poor site security. However, any specific reason for targeting these sites was not mentioned anywhere. The deface […]
A video purportedly showing a gigantic snake swallowing a zookeeper is the latest viral scam on Facebook – tricking thousands of users into sharing a video which instead takes victims outside Facebook to a scam site.
‘Adware’, software which delivers unwanted adverts, isn’t as scary as some malware, but ESET’s analysis of Win32/Boaxxe shows that ‘malicious’ adware is becoming increasingly hi-tech and stealthy. Our guide will help you clean your machine – and see fewer unwanted ads.
Banks around the world face a looming deadline to upgrade their ATMS – 95% of machines worldwide run Windows XP, which Microsoft will cease to support on April 8. Just 15% of America’s ATMs are expected to upgrade by that point.
A Californian blogger was among victims of a malware attack which targeted critics of the communist state in Vietnam, as well as staff at U.S. privacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Although Snowden is held in high esteem by ordinary citizens of America, as a whistle-blower, there are quite a few who swear otherwise. A pentagon official told BuzzFeed, “I would love to put a bullet in his head.” These sentiments are shared by many. Michael Hayden, former NSA and CIA chief, and Mike Rogers, chair […]
The ‘magnetic stripe’ credit cards used by American banks should be replaced with the more secure chip-and-PIN systems standard in Europe and around the world to prevent further attacks, according to Visa, Mastercard, JP Morgan and government officials.
The online hacktivist AnonGhost along with a group of hackers has decided to attack Israeli cyber space on 7th April, 2014 when the country will be celebrating its birthday. One of AnonGhost’s representative told us that this cyber attack will be conducted under the banner of #OpIsraelBirthday in which every possible Israeli website will be targeted […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous has taken down the official website of Fullerton police department in retaliation for the arrest of protesters and citizen journalists. It all started against the acquittal of two police officers involved in beating a mentally ill homeless man Kelly Thomas to death in 2011. of the hundreds who gathered to protest the acquittal, thirteen were […]
Delivering a speech on NSA reforms after seven months since the first revelations on NSA by Edward Snowden, President Obama remained unapologetic about the intelligence programs run by the US and affirmed that “we cannot unilaterally disarm” and needed systems in place so that US security is not undermined. The 45-minute speech on Huffington Post stressed […]
In this post, we examine the complex it fits into a larger click fraud ecosystem, where users can be redirected either automatically, or through search engines browsing, to advertisement websites.
Cisco claims in its report that cybercrime is now a global, professional industry – and there is a worldwide shortage of professionals able to defend against such attacks, with new technologies in malware meaning that there is a shortfall of a million IT professionals.
Post-Snowden revelations about NSA snooping on private data of almost every individual, Silent Circle, a Switzerland based encryption firm, has partnered with the Spanish phone manufacturer, Geeksphone that uses Android platform for its mobile devices, to produce Blackphone—the most secure smartphone in the world. Phil Zimmerman, one of Silent Circle’s founder and a renowned cryptographer, […]
The computer giant announced the change of policy in an official blog post in which it said that although XP was no longer “a supported operating system”, security updates would continue until July 2015.
Thousands of hotels have found that their listings on Google Maps and Google+ have been ‘hijacked’ – pointing instead to different sites, rather than the hotel’s own. At least 4,000 sites have been affected.
RedHack Leaks 4k Turkcell numbers against facilitating Ministers with new numbers. The famous hacktivist group RedHack has leaked phone numbers of more than 4,000+ Turkcall personals against company’s decision of replacing those old numbers with new which were earlier leaked by the Turkish based hackers. RedHack announced the leak via their official Twitter handle which […]