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5 physical security tips for protecting your digital devices

As we read earlier this week, the chances that one or more of your digital devices may get stolen are uncomfortably high. So what would happen if your mobile device falls into the wrong hands? Here are a few tips that will help minimize the damage if it happens to you.

Google Denies Killing Donkey! Image Included

Reports on social media suggest that Google Street View car ran over a donkey due to which it died on the spot, but Google denies all the allegations. Two days ago a  Twitter user with handle of @TheRealSheldonC tweeted a picture of a donkey (which at that time seemed to be dead.) saying “I think Google street […]

Mark Zuckerberg Presents Facebook Search Engine aka Graph Search

Facebook has announced its very own search engine in an event organized by the Facebook officials to announce its new fascinating product. Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, announced this news and shocked everyone not only in the event but people all around the world. Many speculations were made on it by many leading analyst, the […]

Malware Found in Two US Power Stations Infecting the Control System

The US Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has reported that two US power stations were attacked and infected by a malicious malware in the last quarter of 2012. The experts have blamed not anyone else but USB flash drives filled with viruses for infecting and compromising the industrial control systems in both […]

Thai Culture Ministry Website Hacked for Banning Political Soap Opera ‘Nua Mek 2’

The hackers from The Bad Piggies Team have hacked and defaced the official website of Thailand’s Culture Ministry (m-culture.go.th)early morning. The hackers left their deface page and a message on the hacker ministry website; displaying message in Thai language, demanding to bring back the banned political soap opera “Nua Mek 2” to the public, “Return Nua Mek 2 […]

Phys.Org Hacked, Google Issues Malware Warning

PhysOrg, a famous portal providing news related to the subjects of science, research, technology physics, space and earth science, biology, chemistry, electronics, nanotechnology and technology was hacked few hours ago.  The unknown hackers installed a malware on the website which was quickly noted by Google, which issues a warning to Chrome followed by FireFox users.  Eduard Kovacs […]

Kaspersky Finds ‘Red October’ Virus Targeting You Since 2007

One of the biggest cyber attacks in Europe has been identified by the researchers. All this started in 2007 according to the researchers and attacked many leading infrastructural websites of the country which included: embassies, oil and gas institutes and nuclear station. The way of attack was the same i.e. by sending malware in the […]

Okara Police Hacked, personal information leaked for #OpSlaughterHouse

Thank to CWN for reporting, the official website of Okara District Police (okarapolice.com) Pakistan was hacked by @ThisISGame0ver for #OpSlaughterHouse.  The hacker breached the site and leaked personal information of Police officers online, the details contains login details of website administrator’s usernames, address, contact details, phone numbers, plain text and encrypted passwords.  After looking into the passwords set by the admin for […]

Philippine National Police (PNP) Website Hacked & Defaced by Anonymous

The official website of  Philippine National Police’s (PNP) (qcpdpnp.com) Quezon City office has been hacked and defaced by online hackavist Anonymous hackers.  The hack is done at the time when country’s SC is hearing the cyber crime law bill case, the hackers urged the courts to help in maintaining the freedom of expression in the country. […]

#OpIndia: Forensic Experts India Hacked, Login Info Leaked by @AnonTitan

A hacker going by the handle of @AnonTitan has contacted us with his latest hack for #OpIndia; in which the hacker has hacked into the server of an Indian government certified Forensic experts website (forensicexperts.in), leaving with a huge number of login information available on Pastebin. The hacker also announced the hack on his official Twitter […]

South Shore Medical Center Site Hacked, Patient Payment Info Compromised

The South Shore medical center’s (ssmedcenter.com) in the UK experienced a data breach and is believed to have affected many of center’s patients. This medical center has branches also in Kingston and Norwell and serves a number of patients daily. The news of the breach came up in a local newspaper which was released by the firm related […]

39 Israeli Websites Hacked and Defaced by AnonGhost

A support of Anonymous hacker going with the handle of AnonGhost has hacked and defaced 39 Israeli websites about half an hour ago. The hacker contacted us with a list of  hacked Israeli sites as a result of his latest cyber attack conducted on Israeli, which shows a deface page and a message on all of […]

Peruvian Army Website Hacked and Defaced by LulzSec Peru

The famous hackavist LulzSec hacking group have hacked and defaced the official website of Peruvian Army (ejercito.mil.pe) which is part of the official Peruvian Armed Forces assigned the tasks such as to  guard and protect the country’s sovereignty and independence through military force. However, the hackers did now mentioned any reason for attacking the Army’s website, […]