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Sony’s PlayStation network is back online after hours of outage worldwide — A Phantom Squad Twitter account claims they took the network down. A few hours ago it was reported that Sony’s PlayStation network on PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 were down worldwide. Now, the good news for gamers is that the service is back online […]
The official website of Saudi Ministry of Defense faced DDoS attack on Sunday amid tensions between Iran and KSA. A group of unknown hackers conducted a DDoS attack on Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense website forcing it to stay offline for more than 24 hours. The Iranian news agency Fars reports that the hackers behind […]
BBC faced a shut down for over an hour of their website on New Year’s eve due to t DDOS attack. Previously unknown, the people behind the attack have released a statement, stating that they are a US-based group called New World Hacking which is an anti-ISIL group, The Telegraph reports. On Thursday, 31 December, […]
A powerful cyber attack earlier today forced all British Broadcasting websites (BBC) to go offline and unavailable for readers for several hours. The cyber attack started at 0700 GMT forcing visitors to view the offline page of all BBC website with a 500 Internal Error. Screenshot from BBC website showing Internal error after the DDoS attack / […]
A DoS attack reportedly revealed account details of around 34K users of Steam, a popular gaming platform, to others. Moreover, the service remained down on Christmas while the company was busy identifying those affected by the attack. Steam also confirmed that its website was attacked on Christmas Day and details of 34,000 users might have been leaked. The attack […]
MyGov, a portal used for managing various Australian government services is asking users to turn off their two-factor verification while traveling abroad. Portal’s administrator has been advising this move to the users on twitter. When on a trip outside Australia, users are required to change their SIM to a locally accepted SIM card and during this time if they want […]
Last week HR reported about a hacking group “Phantom Squad” that is planning ruin holidays for the gamers. It looks like the group has started working on turning their plans into reality — However, another group known as SkidNP has also joined the attacks and shut down Steam servers. EA Servers: The group Phantom Squad […]
Yahoo has followed the footsteps of Facebook and Twitter and has announced they will also alert its users regarding state-sponsored attacks — So if any user is found to have been targeted by state-sponsored hackers they will receive an alert from Yahoo. Though, the company did not disclose how it will be identifying state-sponsored attacks […]
It is an undeniable fact that almost every network, computer, and equipment can be hacked. From a smart coffee maker to a full-fledged power grid station, everything is hackable, reveals a study conducted by the Associated Press (AP). In its comprehensive investigation the AP concluded, after analyzing dozens of data sets, government reports, private analysis […]
Hiroyuki Inoue, associate professor at Hiroshima City University’s Graduate School of Information Sciences in Japan showed how an app and a custom wifi device can be ingredients for car hacking. For the demonstration he used a 2013 Toyota Corolla Fielder Hybrid and was able to control its doors, speedometer displays and the accelerator, reports the Japan […]
A court in Brazil has ordered the mobile phone operators on Wednesday to block the WhatsApp messaging application throughout the country for 48 hours. A Brazilian court on Wednesday ordered telecommunications providers to block all access to the WhatsApp phone messaging application for 48 hours throughout Brazil, Latin America’s largest country, the Folha de S.Paulo […]
After Facebook and Google, Twitter also has started warning message regarding state sponsored attack to some of its users — Alert urges users to use Tor. In October this year, Facebook announced that it will soon start sending banner notifications to anyone whose account may have been compromised by the government or if Facebook suspects someone […]
Remember a couple of months ago a hacker defaced Donald Trump’s official website with a tribute message for Jon Stewart? — Now Anonymous has done the same but with a DDoS attack. The online hacktivist group Anonymous has conducted a powerful DDoS attack on one of the Donald trump’s website for Trump Tower New York “trumptowerny.com” […]
Earlier this year we reported Anonymous is targeting Japanese airport websites against dolphin slaughter in the country — The cyber attacks were conducted under the banner of operation OpKillingBay. Now, Anonymous group is believed to have attacked the website of Japanese Prime Minister “Shinzo Abe” in protest to the resumption of the hunting of Whales […]
The U.S. presidential candidates who were once supporters of the freedom of speech seem to have completely changed their ideas. Looking at the recent speeches from the leading voices in the U.S it seems they want to curb the freedom of speech, especially on the internet due to a terrorist group making use of it. […]
The government of France is in discussions on blocking Tor anonymity network and also the shared and free wifi network during a state of emergency. These proposals may be laid down in 2 pieces of legislation, one state of emergency and other in relation to counter-terrorism. According to the documents, the reason for blocking wifi in […]
Google has denied all the accusations that were put forward regarding monitoring or censoring of those YouTube videos that are made for inciting attacks on Israel — Google claims their recent meetings were routine and had no such agreements. Though, a statement from Israeli foreign ministry last week said that the Google’s executives had agreed […]
Turkish hackers just took down the official website of Russian Central Bank amid tension near Syrian-Turkey border. A group of Turkish hacktivist going with the handle of Turk Hack Team has conducted a powerful DDoS attack on the official website of Russian Central Bank earlier today forcing it to go offline for over 10 minutes. […]
Al-Hayat, an agency that spreads all the content relevant to ISIS on different online platforms has announced the ISIS intentions on moving their operations to Dark web. There are a number of blogs and forums the agency posts regarding ISIS activities. Most significant of them are the Ansar Khilafah blog and the Shamikh forums. In […]
Halifax police forced to re-open investigation in a sexual assault case after Anonymous exposes the identity of the alleged culprit. The online hacktivist collective Anonymous managed to force Halifax Regional Municipality police into reopening the investigation of an alleged sexual assault case involving an 18-year-old girl who was attacked by a fellow student on Halloween […]
A Bosnian music group has released a song in support of The Pirate Bay (TPB) and bashing the authorities on copyright related rules and regulations. A Bosnian music band Dubioza Kolektiv on Friday released the official video of their song “Free.mp3 (The Pirate Bay Song)” which the band has dedicated to the founders of the […]