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71 Top Turkish Government and its Ministry Websites Hacked by HacKingZ Crew

Hackers going with a group handle of HacKingZ Crew have hacked and defaced 71 Turkish government owned websites today.  The hackers left their deface page along with a simple message on all the hacked websites, according to which “Hacked By HacKingZCrew twitter.com and HacKingZCrew facebook.com/hackingzcrew” but the reason for hacking the websites was not mentioned. However the deface image […]

Nokia Taiwan Hacked, 100,000+ accounts leaked by Maxney of TurkishAjan Group

The famous Turkish hacker going with the handle of Maxney from TurkishAjan group has hacked four official sub-domains of Nokia website for Taiwan and leaked over 100,000 user accounts online.  The hacker left his group’s deface page along with a deface message against Israel, US, China, EU and UN. According to the message:  Turkish Ajan […]

Iraq’s Prime Minister Website Hacked & Defaced by Team Kuwait Hackers

A group of hackers from Team Kuwait Hackers have hacked and defaced the official website of Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (www.pmo.iq).   The website which was hacked on 2nd Feb, left with a deface page and a message in Arabic language with an image of  Nouri al-Maliki insulting him with a shoe on his forehead. According to the deface message:  […]

Jailed for Jailbreaking: New Law May kick you to Jail

Apple’s customers would be itching to get their devices updated iOS 6, which was recently launched by Apple. iOS 6 is said to come with a basket of new and fascinating features. These new features mostly relate to easy searching of movies and places, one can say it’s now possible find anything with ease on […]

Kurdish News Network KNN Website Hacked by Turk Hack Team

The official website of Kurdish News Network www.knntv.net has been hacked by famous Turk Hack Team from Turkey.  The Samurai hacker from Turk Hack Team contacted me via email, told that He is a Turkish Muslim Hacker and he has hacked the PKK’s terrorist site. Link of targeted website: www.knntv.net Mirror of hacked website:  http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/19248009 The hacker didn’t only hacked the […]

ComboFix fixed: popular utility safe to use

ESET’s threat researchers received a surprise earlier this week when they began receiving reports from ESET LiveGrid that downloads of ComboFix, a tool popular with advanced users for removing malware, were detected as being infected by a variant of the Sality virus, Win32/Sality.NBA.

Critical Vulnerability Found on VLC Media Player

A researcher by the name of  Debasish Mandal has found critical command executing vulnerability on the latest versions 2.0.5 and earlier on famous VLC media playing software that can be exploited by attackers to execute malicious code on computers via ASF files.  The developers at VLC organization have published an advisory according to which the vulnerability is located  in media player’s […]

#OpLastResort: Anonymous Hacks Government Site, Leaks 4,000 Bank Executives Credentials

The online hackavist group Anonymous have claimed to hack the official website of Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center and appear to post login credentials of 4000 bank executives for #OpLastResort, demanding reforms in country’s cyber crime law. The hacked was announced by the hackers on their official Twitter account, leaked data contains details of bank executives such as names, ranks, […]

U.S. Energy Department Under Cyber-attacks allegedly by Chinese Hackers

In a report published by The Washington Free Beacon reports, the The Energy Department has been under massive cyber-attacks, as a result information of its hundreds of employees has been stolen, the officials are not positive over theft of secret information. The FBI is now investigating the attack in which hackers penetrated into 20 workstations and about 14 computer servers in […]

Israeli cellphone provider Pelephone says it was not hacked

The officials at Pelephone, Israel’s major cellphone provider company has announced that it was never hacked and cyberattack was never the cause for its service disruption. Gil Sharon, CEO of Pelephone told the media that We don’t know exactly what happened, it was a technical malfunction, but we know it wasn’t a cyberattack, we have a strong […]

Pakistani News Giant Jang.com.pk and PKNIC Domain Registrar Hacked by PAKbugs

The official website of Pakistan’s one of the oldest and biggest media giant newspaper Jang.com.pk, owners of Geo News has been hacked and defaced by PAKbugs.  The hackers with the handles of ZombiE_KsA, Z3r0Byt3, Xploiter and Dr.Freak from PAKbugs hacked the site collectively, apparently the hackers first hacked the hosting providers(pknic.net.pk) of Jang newspaper website, which further allowed hackers to deface the […]

#OpBerlusconi: Anonymous to attack Italian Government against corruption

Online hackavist group Anonymous have decided to go against Italian government owned websites against the ongoing corruption inside the country. In a video message posted by AnonOpsIT, it was announced that Anonymous will attack the government of Italy, thanks to Berlusconi, country’s ex-prime minister for his alleged corruption. Citizens of the world, This is an urgent emercengy alert […]

Israeli News Site Haaretz Hacked, Emails & Passwords Leaked by Syrian Electronic Army

The hackers from Syrian Electronic Army have hacked into the mail server of Israeli News website Haaretz (haaretz.com), as a result around 100 usernames, emails and their plain text passwords have been leaked. The Syrian hackers claimed to found a vulnerability on the Israeli news site Haaretz email database which allowed them to bypass all the security set […]

Top 10 Facebook Tricks You Must Know

Do you surf facebook for hours? And would like to have some additional functions to your tiny world of friends? Well, if yes then you are at the right place. In our today’s article we would be covering few of the best tricks that will make your facebook lot more efficient and joyous. So, let’s […]

#Twitterhack: 250,000 Twitter Accounts Hacked

Some unknown hackers have infiltrated the social media website Twitter, as a result the account information of around 250,000 of its users have been hacked and stolen. Bob Lord, director of Information Security at Twitter, writes on his blog that:  Our investigation has thus far indicated that the attackers may have had access to limited user […]