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Matthew Keys who is the deputy social media editor of Reuters has been recently charged for being involved in an anon attack on a website which was conducted by Anonymous hacker’s group. The connection of Matthews with the website is that it belongs to his former employer and his attorneys briefed out that he communicated […]
An unknown foreign gambler at a casino had hacked security surveillance cameras in Melbourne’s biggest scam at the Crown Casino. HeraldSun reports that a casino employ has been sacked for helping the gambler and infiltrating the casino’s surveillance system. The scam was discovered over eight hands of cards played in a short space of time […]
Even the smallest web based business in the world will attract criminal hackers interested in stealing financially valuable data.
MatthewKeys, a social media editor at Thomson Reuters Corporation has been accused of allegedly conspiring in the hacking and helping Anonymous hackers with login details of his former employer the Tribune Company, owner of the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times and other news outlets. Matthew Keys, of Secaucus, N.J., was working with Tribune Broadcasting as a web producer before going freelance few months ago […]
A young heartless mum has been arrested for an attempt to sell her Children on Facebook to bail out her husband from jail. The 22 years mother from Sallisaw, Oklahoma, named Misty VanHorn was contacting people to buy her kids via Facebook. Local police at Sallisaw told media that the 22 years old mother Misty […]
Reports from Asia say that Singapore is to open a new Cyber Security Lab in a bid to combat criminal hacking by training law enforcement officers in the latest anti-cyber crime techniques.
The business-focused social network has seen a lawsuit related to the June 2012 hacking of its web site overturned in a San Jose federal court. The criminal hacking resulted in the release of 6.5 million passwords causing the Mountain View based company to instruct some of its members to reset their passwords, in a speedy response to the incident.
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 […]
A Pakistani student in UK will be extradited to the US from UK over computer hacking allegations stemming from an FBI sting operation. The 24 years old student identified as Usman Ahzaz, was admitted to a university in Britain in order to get a degree in information systems and computing failed the bid to avoid extradition from Britain to the United Stated. The hacker […]
The Financial Times reported that the UK and India will improve co-operation in a bid to combat the growing threat from international cyber crime and cyber warfare in a new agreement between the two countries. The announcement was made during British Premier David Cameron’s trade trip to the emerging economic power.
Britain and India are near to sign a contract for setting up a joint task force to tackle all kind of cyber crimes in order to secure mobile phone data and personal banking details of about millions of Britons, much of which is stored on Indian servers. IBN reports that agreement is first of its […]
U.S. President Barack Obama plans to release a long-awaited executive order aimed at improving cyber security were realised Tuesday.
The order is designed to better protect the country’s critical infrastructure from cyber attacks that are a growing concern to the economy and national security, according to Reuters.
3 to 4 year years back cyber criminals were having less advantage in hacking a social networking account as it only allowed him to reach to victim’s personal information and nothing other then it. But, today the scenario has totally changed people around the world are using their social networking account as means of trading, […]
According the UK’s National Audit Office (NAO) the Cyber Strategy outlined in November 2011 has started to deliver benefits but more must be done. According to the NAO the cost of cyber crime to the UK is estimated to be between £18 billion and £27 billion. Business, government and the public must therefore be constantly
Social media has now become a difficult place to survive, this came into light when one Filipino solicitor discussed a cyber crime law to one of the websites. But, before getting into it we want to warn all the people around the world to be really careful while sharing anything on social media websites as […]
NQ Mobile,a mobile security company that provides solution for protecting mobile device from malware, spyware, theft, and loss has found a new malware the “Bill Shocker” that has already infected over 620,000 users in only China and now posing a serious threat to all unprotected Android devices globally. Net-Security reports that the Bill Shocker is a (SDK) developed by […]
Earlier I updated you regarding a successful hacking attack on Indonesian Presidential website by Jember Hacker Team. Today the Indonesian police has arrested an Internet cafe operator from the East Java district of Jember for allegedly hacking the presidential website. The 22 years old, Wildan Yani Ashari is an Indonesian citizen who works at an Internet cafe as an operator. The cafe is […]
UK authorities have fined Sony PlayStation with a fine of $400,000 on the charges of breaching passwords of several users in the year 2011. But, Sony since the induction of the fine has been facing losses/expenditures far greater than $400,000. According to them, only the insurance of their systems and staff costs $171M which has become difficult […]
The Philippine police last week arrested a group of 15 Chinese women and 2 men. This group was arrested on behalf of a fraudulent activity they carried out over the internet successfully. After week of thorough investigations the police declared this group criminals after which the Chinese police was after. Previously, Chinese police has contacted […]
The Washington Post reports that the Pentagon has approved a major expansion of its cyber security force which will result in a five-fold resource increase.
U.S police force today arrested three criminals who are said to be involved in the uprising of one of the deadliest virus online i.e. the Gozi virus. The Gozi virus since 2005 has affected more than 40,000 computers in U.S. That belonged to many leading commercial and government centers, NASA is one of them. The […]