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Protest Against Spying: Indonesian Gantengers Crew Hacks Australian National University Domain

Indonesian based hackers from Gantengers Crew has hacked and defaced an official sub-domain of Australian National University today against Australian spying activities over Indonesian government as reveled by NSA‘s whistleblower Edward Snowden. The targeted domain belongs to Australian National University’s Deepening Histories of Place Project, which is now displaying a deface page along with a message left by Gantengers […]

Indonesian Hacker Defaces Fairfield Police, NJ and Jasper County Police, IN Websites

An Indonesian hacker going with the handle of Maniak k4sur has hacked and defaced the official website of Fairfield Police Department, NJ and Jasper County Police, IN websites.  The Zone-h archive shows that Fairfield Police department website was hacked on 21 November and Jasper County Police website was hacked on 15th November 2013. Hacker left two different deface […]

Security Expert Highlighting Links between Predominant Website Vulnerabilities and Cyber Warfare

In the Following Issue we will discuss the impacted vulnerability, their particular information and details, proof-of-concept code, as well as their special recommendations, regarding fixing those issues. Security researchers of the High-Profile websites, mostly discover their related vulnerabilities as the highly effective zones. Nicholas Lemonias is an expert researcher, and he is of the belief that such […]

Tech Support Scammers: Talking to a Real Support Team

It so happens that I live over 5,000 miles from the ESET North America office in San Diego, and so tend not to have water cooler conversations with the people located there. Of course, researchers working for and with ESET around the world maintain contact through the wonders of electronic messaging, but there are lots

Code-Newbie Team from Indonesia and Malaysia Hacks 44 Chinese Government Domains

A group of Indonesian and Malaysian hacker going with the handle of Code-Newbie has hacked and defaced 44 Chinese government sub-domains belonging to Fifth Agriculture Division of the country (). Hackers left a deface page along with a message on all hacked websites. The reason for targeting Chinese government websites was not mentioned anywhere. However, the deface […]

#OpNSA: Australian Federal Police and Reserve Bank websites taken down amid spying row with Indonesia

Thursday: An Indonesian hacker going with the handle of ./BCT_48 ‏ has claimed responsibility for taking down the official website of Australian Federal Police and Reserve Bank amid an ongoing row over reports leaked by NSA‘s whistleblower Edward Snowden that Canberra spied on Jakarta officials. The hacker who claims to be a female, posted on Twitter that she is behind crushing down of […]

Anonymous Declares Global Cyber War on U.S. Government against Hammond’s Sentence and NSA Spying

The online hacktivist group Anonymous has released a video, according to which the group has declared global cyber war on the government of United States against injustice, NSA‘s spying and 10 year sentence of a cyber activist Jeremy Hammond. The video message is available below:  In the message, Anonymous has requested that: ‘People who follow Anonymous, do not […]

Chronology of a Skype attack

By the middle of May, users around the world started to receive messages from their contacts through different instant-messaging applications, such as Skype and Gtalk – an attack that showed off how age-old techniques can ensnare thousands of users. Here, we analyze this attack.

Official Website of Peru’s President and National Police Defaced by LulzSec Peru

The online hacktivists from Lulz Security Peru have hacked and defaced the official website of Peruvian President and Peruvian National Police.  The website of Peruvian President was hacked on 17th November while Peruvian National Police site was hacked yesterday 19th November 2013.  Lulz Security Peru left two different deface pages along with messages on both hacked websites in Spanish language. Hackers […]

Official Franklin County, Ohio Website/Portal Hacked and Defaced by Nullroot

A hacker going with the handle of /Nullroot has hacked and defaced the official website of Franklin County, Ohio State on 17th Nov, 2013. Hacker left a deface page along with a message on the hacked Franklin County site. Hacker’s nationality and reason for hacking county site was not mentioned anywhere. However, the deface message was expressed […]