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In a latest video footage from Anonymous, the notorious hacker group, a masked individual appears in a suit and delivers a well-structured statement announcing a possible attack on Israel’s online servers on April 7. The operation will be carried out under the famous banner of OpIsrael. The video features pictures of distraught Palestinian children and the […]
The DDoS attack on Finish Police website forced the servers to remain offline for hours. The official website of Finnish Police (poliisi.fi) was forced to go offline for several hours on Thursday after a massive DDoS attack. This was the third attack on police website in last few days. The first attack was carried out on […]
After Indian’s Governor Mike Peace signed the controversial “religious freedom bill” as law, the next thing the government knew was that their website (in.gov) got attacked and went offline with a powerful DDoS attack. The attacker is a group calling itself @YourVikingdomon on Twitter and has been taken down another 34 state, local, tribal and […]
On Friday, a cyberattack on NYPD captains union website infected it with malware and forced it to shut down. According to union officials, the infamous hacker group Anonymous is behind this attack since it openly supported the Occupy Wall Street movement and also got involved in an online dispute with ISIS. Roy Richter, the Union’s […]
Yesterday we reported how WordPress (WP) was banned in Pakistan due to internet security issues. We also revealed that the banned will be a temporary one. Now according to sources Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), WordPress has unblocked in Pakistan and bloggers can access the platform without using any proxy or VPN. Those who can’t access the site […]
In a shocking decision the government of Pakistan has banned WordPress.com, the world renowned open-source blogging tool and a content management system. Users in the country can’t access WordPress.com nor the blogs hosted on it. However, the Self hosted blogs on WordPress are still accessible. According to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the reason for banning WordPress in the […]
French Government In No Mood to Grant “Free Speech” right – France blocking Websites that propagate views the government doesn’t like. In what can be termed as an aftermath of the attack on Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine, the country that was so far popularly known as the guardian of “free speech” right is now […]
A hacker group labelled “Who am I = No nuclear power” released data regarding the advanced power reactor (APR) 1400 and system plans from Kori nuclear plant on Twitter this Tuesday. The tweet also had a ransom message for an unknown amount for not exporting the stolen data to other countries. There were clues regarding the […]
It seems banning the usage of VPN (Virtual Private Network) wasn’t enough as the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of United Arab Emirates (UAE) has now blocked new free voice call feature from popular instant messaging app WhatsApp. According to TRA’s website, the free call service was blocked because VoIP services can only be offered in the UAE by licensed providers, […]
Samsung has done it yet again.. It has managed to do something entirely unique and introduce a new concept to the techno world. This time it has filmed the birth of a child for the first time in virtual reality through the amazing Gear VR. The event of birth was live-streamed to Australia, where the […]
Selfie Mania Turning People Psychic-Reportedly, a Russian paramedic is fired for taking pictures with Dying patients. Paramedic staff is believed to be compassionate, caring and people with a heart. However, Tatiana Kulikova is nothing like a compassionate paramedic. The 25-year-old Tatiana has been fired by health officers after viewing the pictures she posted online taken […]
One of London’s tube stations will become more accessible for vision impaired and blind travelers by an amazing new Bluetooth setup. According to a visually impaired researcher who worked on the project, Courteny Nugent, “when we go to stations, we have to wait around for assistance if there’s no assistant—waiting a considerable amount of time. […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is known for its secretive projects, but we have to agree the agency is also home to some exclusive innovative projects like the one revealed recently at Future of War forum. A 55-year-old paralyzed American citizen Jan Scheuermann was able to control and fly a single-engine Cessna and an F-35 fighter jet in […]
A set of tools has been rolled out by Facebook to help prevent suicide thoughts among its users. It is now possible to report Facebook posts that identify someone having suicidal thoughts. The reported posts will be reviewed by a third party and then it will decide whether that user should be consulted and counselled or […]
WhatsApp banned by Brazilian Judge—Wants the app to contribute in Police Investigations. Luiz de Moura Correia, the Judge from the state of Piauí, has put a ban on the popular mobile messaging app WhatsApp in Brazil. He took this decision to force the owners of this app to cooperate with the State Police in their […]
Shocking acceleration in the use of Cyberweapons between Iran and the U.S against each other has been revealed in a newly released National Security Agency document. This document was prepared for the then director of the NSA Gen. Keith B. Alexander in April 2013. As per the illustration in this document, Iran and the US […]
A Saudi based “oppressed defenders” hacking group has taken down the online banking domain of Arab National Bank, early Monday. The cyber attack on ANB bank is part of the ongoing Operation Saudi in which hacker had vowed to attack Saudi based financial institutions until the end of human rights violations in the kingdom. In an exclusive conversation with […]
On Wednesday 17th Feb, 2015, a group of hacktivists calling themselves “The oppressed defenders” conducted a cyber attack on Saudi Arabian based bank AlJazira in shape of a Distributed denial of service attack (DD0S). As a result the online banking and e-service domains of bank AlJazira were forced to go offline for more than thirty minutes. One of the hacker told HackRead […]
The online Hacktivist group Anonymous has announced to expose the “elite” class pedophiles involved in or covering-up the child sex abuse, including the senior Westminster figures. The operation to expose child abusers has been conducted under the banner of ‘Operation Death Eaters’. A video posted by Anonymous on YouTube claims the group has already identified officials in the government and high power positions […]
The person who developed the free email encryption software Gnu Privacy Guard in 1997, which was used by famous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and so many other journalists, security officials and dissidents worldwide, is going broke. Yes you read it right! He needs money to keep this amazing project alive. The software was developed by […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous has claimed that it took down about 800 Twitter accounts and 12 Facebook pages belonging or somehow supporting the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). The operation was conducted under the banner of #OpISIS but originally announced after the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris. Anonymous had announced that it would […]