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Results from an eight country Accenture survey shows that US doctors surveyed have mixed feelings about electronic patient records (EPR). While some 82 percent want patients to update their own records, only a third (31 percent) believe they should have full access.
The world renowned Saudi Aramco which is a national oil company of Saudi Arabia had its Twitter @Saudi_Aramco account hacked by a hacker going with the handle of Mister Rero. The hacker did not only hacked the account but also changed the account’s official logo into a picture of the Heath Ledger’s portrayal of “The Joker” from the […]
World renowned online hackavist NullCrew has defaced Time Warner for supporting Copyright Alert System (CAS), leaving the site with a cartoon gorilla deface page. The hack was announced by the group on their official Twitter account with a message explaining why the hack was done. We hacked Time Warner Cable, due to them attempting to participate in the […]
Last Saturday, the official Twitter account of South African Ministry of State Security @StateSecurityRS was hacked and diet loss Tweets were sent to its followers. Eduard Kovacs of SoftPedia reports that spammer who hacked the account was using it for Tweeting infamous-diet tweets until the account was regained and password changed. South African Ministry of State Security have confirmed that account […]
A hacker going with the handle of Godzilla has hacked an unofficial domain of Pakistan’s Intelligence Agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) (isi.org.pk). The hacker who who claimed to hack into MSSQL server containing 3 databases, with 9 users and located at mssql.isi.org.pk, which can be seen in below given screenshot. The site index page clearly mentions that […]
Seculert, an Israeli based company that detects viruses and other Advanced persistent threats (APT), has claimed to detect two different spear-phishing attacks which were using a fake Mandiant report to spy on Chinese and Japanese journalists. TheRegister reports that researchers are positive about the origin of these attacks is none other then China. “We resolved it and found it was reporting […]
A group of Malaysian hackers from KamiSec Team has hacked and defaced the official website of Yakima County Fire District #5 (ycfd5.org), along with 18 of its sub-domains. The hackers who contacted me via email explained that reason for hacking the website was to show their support for the people of Palestine. All 19 websites were successfully defaced and […]
Internet, during recent years, has become more then a place of just web surfing. It has become a place of great significance for all type of economic and cultural activities taking place around the world. But, since this has happened there have been a number of criminal uprisings in this it. Thus, have hurt the progress internet […]
Issues with malware are always with us. There may or may not be a current media storm, or companies hoping for a slice of the anti-malware pie by proclaiming the death of antivirus in a press release, but AV labs continue to slog their way every day through tens of thousands of potentially malicious samples.
The official website of Bangladeshi Supreme Court (supremecourt.gov.bd) and National Agricultural Technology Project (NATP) (natpdae.gov.bd), running directly under Ministry of Agriculture were breached and as a result the database along with user credentials were leaked by hacker going with the Twitter handle of @Phr0zenM. The hacker contacted me via Twitter explained that reason for breaching these sites was to register his […]
The official website of Pakistan’s Soneri Bank has been hacked and defaced by hackers from PakBugs. The website was left with a deface page along with a message, making fun of the bank, its admins for poor security and coding. On First Look I saw ” Security Seal of Norton Company ” But Soon After 5 minutes […]
The Indian Army’s Additional Directorate General of Public Information (ADGPI) has joined Twitter with the handle of @adgpi. Hindustan Times reports that, in a step to strengthen its relationship with social media users, the Army has decided to join Twitter and may expand its operation on other social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube in near future. The […]
We have heard about hacking into each other’s cyber territories but editing Wikipedia pages to send you message to the world was never a part of cyber war. In a recent attack by hackers from Phillipines, the details about “Sabah” were edited and the state was described as being “part of the Sultanate of Sulu”. Sabah is one […]
UAE, which has been one of major regions of cyber crimes, got a really good new last Friday, when police arrested a gang that was involved in a fraudulent activity of Dh6 billion. The gang was involved in breaching many of the leading company’s accounts. After several days of investigation the Dubai smartly tracked the gang and […]
The world renowned hackers and supporters of Syrian President Bashar Ul Assad from Syrian Electronic have claimed to hack two Twitter accounts of France 24 international news and current affairs television channel based in Paris. The first hacked account belongs to France 24’s Arabic service and second account belongs to The France 24 Observers, a France 24’s collaborative journalism project famous for promoting amateur videos and […]
Caution: Weakness of Web Codes causes Data Dumping onto Personal Computers A web developer has revealed that by creating a loophole in the web codes, junk data in gigabytes can be dumped onto PCs. It is the HTML 5 feature which defines the making of a website and the loophole exploits this feature to dump […]
A police chief of the Pennsylvania has claimed that his account at Facebook was hacked, but this claim does not explain his picture which was displayed there. The picture basically features an attractive lady with a naked midriff section along with two guns. A norm which has developed in our society is the acceptance level for […]
The official website of Zionist Federation of New Zealand (www.zfnz.org.nz) has been hacked and defaced by famous online hackavist group Moroccan Ghosts. The hackers who contacted me via email told that site has been completely defaced for many reasons, such as; against the killing of Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat, who died of extreme torture in an Israeli prison, against the Zionist’s terrorism […]
Financial institutions in Bahamas have implemented emergency all over the Island as thousands of consumer credit cards got hacked a week ago in a major data breach. Caribbean360 reports that an international data acquiring company based in Barbados was the source of the breach resulting in continents biggest hack of thousands of Visa and MasterCard credit cards. Anwer […]
Online hackavist, hardcore supporters of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad from Syrian Electronic Army have hacked the official Twitter and Facebook pages of The Qatar Foundation today. The hack was announced by the Syrian Electronic Army itself on its Forum and Facebook account, claiming that both of the accounts were hacked by them against the Qatari support behind the bloodshed in Syria. The Army […]
Caution! Black berry users may become subject to a malicious act from hackers. The security advisory services of blackberry have recently indicated a threat from hackers by pointing out the possibility of a penetration into the BlackBerry servers. Hackers may do it embedding or planting a venomous code on the BES which is also used […]