As a result of a widespread cyber attack, which was purportedly carried out by a Russian-speaking criminal gang, the personal data of thousands of individuals working for different firms headquartered in the United Kingdom has been hacked, which has led to fears about the possibility of the attack spreading to the United States. The workers […]
During the early hours of this Tuesday thousands of users discovered that some of the most popular websites around the world were out of service or did not load properly due to an interruption linked to an unknown cause. Users report that when trying to access the affected websites, “Connection Error”, “IO Error” and even […]
Security Expert Showed Way of ‘Weaponizing the BBC Micro Bit’ at DEF CON 2017 to take over drones. The Micro Bit (also referred to as BBC Micro Bit or Micro:bit) is an ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for use in computer education in the UK. The very hyped Micro:bit computer board from BBC is […]
Student Jack Chappell arrested for helping Cyber Criminals to attack millions of website, including a 2015 assault on NatWest that cut down the firm’s online banking systems. Prosecutors claim that Chappell provided DOS Softwares, which crashes sites by flooding them with tremendous volumes of data and also ran an online helpdesk for hackers as part […]
A BBC Click reporter, Dan Simmons, reported that his non-identical twin brother was able to access his bank account through the newly developed voice-recognition verification system launched recently by the HSBC bank. How does the voice recognition ID system work? Most of you may have heard of the voice recognition system before. It was also […]
It is a fact that Facebook has become the breeding ground for malicious pedophiles and child sex addicts. Despite claims from the social network, we have seen countless examples so far where Facebook failed to take preventive measures or responded aptly whenever the presence of such illicit content involving children was reported to it. The […]
On Sunday morning, a tweet was posted from the New York Times’ Twitter account @NYTvideo, which read: “BREAKING: leaked statement from Vladimir Putin says: Russia will attack the United States with Missiles.” @NYTvideo is the Video page of The New York Times with more than 259,000 followers which is quite less than the main Twitter […]
On Friday morning BBC started sending news alerts in the Bengali language and those receiving notifications from BBC had no idea what was going on so they thought BBC had been hacked. The BBC English service published an article on its site in the Bengali language leaving readers in doubt if the service had been hacked. […]
Mainstream Websites including AOL, BBC and The New York Times Become Targets of Malvertising A number of popular, high-profile websites have become targets of an extensive malvertising campaign. The websites attacked include many big names such as MSN, AOL, BBC, and The New York Times. Remember, this is not the first time for MSN to […]
The hacking group New World Hacking that claimed the responsibility for the BBC attack revealed that the DDoS attack reached the 602 GBps. On December 31th, the BBC website and iPlayer service went down due to a major “distributed denial of service” attack.” The attack started at 0700 GMT and paralyzed the websites for more than […]
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, […]
iPlayer database malfunctions in DDoS attack, brings everything down, including main website and a radio app. On the morning of December 31, 2015, unknown attackers have downed the BBC website and its iPlayer video platform under a massive DDoS attack. The attack started around 07:00 AM GMT and only lasted a few hours, the BBC services […]
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 / […]
Is ISIS Behind BBC’s ‘Operational error’ that Interrupted its Broadcast and Left presenter flustered? Supposedly, BBC News Channel fell prey to a cyber-attack from ISIS when ‘hackers’ were able to interrupt the channel’s live broadcast and upload propaganda material of Islamic State. The appearance of the words “Je suIS IS” on TV Screens left viewers stunned […]
This weekend, the BBC’s website went offline. The first conclusion many people jump to? It must be the work of Anonymous hacktivists angry about the suspension of Jeremy Clarkson. But how likely is that?
A website mimicking the official BBC News site has garnered immense traffic earlier this week through false information about Charley Hebdo massacre and it is likely that the fake website may be a facade for cyber criminal activities, according to a report from a cybersecurity firm. The identical website(bbc-news[.]co[.]uk) carried a fake story claiming the […]
Briton based BBC was hacked and its computer server was on sale this Christmas. A hacker took control of computer servers at world renowned British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and left it to sale for other hackers five days ago on Christmas. It is unclear if the hacker got any buyer or exposed the data online, […]
The watch foundation of internet has made a statement that many online business networks have been hacked by different hackers and the servers of these businesses have been utilized to host images that relate to sexual abuse of child or child pornography. The charity made a statement that the legal websites that are running pornographic […]
Syrian Electronic Army is back in news with another high profile hack, this time three official Twitter accounts of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) which include BBCArabic, BBC Weather and BBC Radio Ulster have been hacked and taken over by the hackers supporting Syrian president Bashar ul Assad. On their official forum and Facebook accounts, Syrian Electronic Army explained […]
Iran’s state TV has accused the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) for hacking into the official website of the channel and changing the results of a poll about Iran’s nuclear programme. According to the BBC’s Farsi (Persian) language channel report, ”the poll showed 63% of those who took part favoured halting uranium enrichment in exchange for an end to […]
The BBC’s Persian service has recently been on the receiving end of hacker attacks, and is now claiming that they “suspect” that the Iranian government is responsible. Not only was the Web site of the service taken down, but two of its satellite feeds were jammed and a massive number of automatic calls swamped its […]