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Unicef India Website Hacked by Turkish Hackers

A group of Turkish hackers hacked and defaced the official website of Unicef India (The United Nations Children’s Fund) last Sunday.  A group of three Turkish hackers going with the online handles of RootDevilz, Jonturk75 and Bozkurt97 claimed responsibility for defacing the official website of Unicef India with one of their own page along with a message […]

Pakistani Intelligence Planning Hacking Attacks, Warns Indian Government

Short Bytes: The government of India has warned its six ministries regarding a probable Pakistani hacking attack to retrieve sensitive information from the computers in various organizations. On Friday, the Indian home ministry issued an advisory to six ministries regarding a possible hacking attack from Pakistani intelligence agencies. This hacking attack may target the communication networks of […]

Website of ISRO’s Commercial Arm Antrix Hacked by Chinese Hackers

The website of Indian Space Agency ISRO’s commercial wing Antrix Corporation was hacked on Sunday. This attack comes two days after ISRO launched five British satellites in its heaviest ever commercial launch. Website of Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of ISRO, antrix.gov.in directed to a web page that posted information about sports merchandise. Notorious Chinese hackers […]

Pizza Hut Israel Website Hacked with a Warning for Indian Government

You’ve seen us posting news about pro-Palestinian hackers targeting Israeli sites or vice versa, but did you ever think of Bangladeshi hackers targeting Israeli website to post a message against India? Well, it happened today. A group of Bangladeshi hackers going with the handle of DangerPro hacked and defaced the contact us page of the official website […]

Indian PM Modi is in the list of ‘Top 10 Criminals’ on Google Image Search

If you search for ‘Top 10 Criminals’ on Google Image Search, you will find Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’ topping the list and Indians are not happy with this. There are currently three pictures of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi featuring in top 10 criminals of the world in Google search engine and some reports suggest the […]

Famous online Indian portal ‘Rediff’ Hacked by Palestinian Hacker

On 30th April, 2015, a Palestinian-friendly hacker going with the online handle of HolaKo hacked and defaced a subdomain of Rediff.com, a famous Indian news, information, shopping and entertainment web portal. The targeted domain (businessemail.rediff.com) belongs to Rediff enterprise providing emails, Windows and Linux web hosting services in India. In an exclusive conversation with HolaKo, HackRead was told […]

Indian Police to Shoot Protesters with Pepper Spray Equipped Drones

In order to disperse protesters, Police in India will now use drones equipped with pepper spray. Is it possible to register police misconduct complaint against a machine? This is the question that protesters in Uttar Pradesh, India, may need to find answer of soon because Uvalde and Lucknow police departments are now going to be […]

Big Win for FOSS, India Makes Use of Open-source Software Mandatory 

In an important policy change, the Government of India announced that it will adopt the open source software and make it mandatory for all the government software services and applications. Narendra Modi led government said that as a part if its Digital India campaign, all the e-governance projects will use the free and open source […]

Cyber War Between India and Pakistan Gets Uglier, Websites Hacked

As a result of Bilawal Bhutto’s tweet regarding Kashmir and growing tension between India and Pakistan on LoC and International Border, hackers of both the nations are showing off their armaments on internet. The Hindu reported that over the past two days, many Indian websites were hacked by Pakistani Hackers. The hacked websites include Chennai […]

Indian hacker Takes Down Official website of terrorist organization Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan

The official website of terrorist organization Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) (http://www.umarmedia.com/) has been targeted and successfully taken down by famous Indian hacker Godzilla. Godzilla hacker who has been in the news for targeting high-profile websites, including the official website of Pakistan army; took down the TTP’s website earlier today. Google Cache shows the official website of Tehreek e […]

Critical Vulnerability: Buy Any Product on eBay in just 0.01 USD

Ever thought to buy an iPhone or a Play Station for free? well you could but its too late now, as an Indian security researcher going with the handle of Ishwar Prasad Bhat had found a critical vulnerability on the world’s largest online shopping website eBay that allowed users to buy any product in just […]

V. O. Chidambaram Port Trust India Website Hacked by Sudanese Hackers

A Sudanese hacker going with the handle of Al Max Hacker has hacked a high profile official website of V. O. Chidambaram Port Trust based in a port city and a Municipal Corporation in Thoothukudi district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The website was hacked on 4th of July 2013 and still hacked […]

India, Brazil and France Rejects Snowden’s Asylum Request

Thing are getting worse for Snowden as Brazil and India have refused asylum request from former NSA’s whistle blower Edward Snowden’s today. The officials at Brazilian Foreign Ministry have made it clear that it will not issue any kind of asylum nor interested in replying to  Snowden’s asylum application. At the other side of continent, India is following Brazil’s […]

Facebook abuse tops cyber crime chart in Indian Punjab

In the state of Punjab, India, 170 cyber-crime complaints have been made in total and the state has topped the chart of such crimes. The latest complaint was made by a local resident man who uses Facebook and the compliant was his son and wife is threatening him through this online platform. The platform has […]

BSNL website taken down by Bangladesh Black Hat Hackers

BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd) website has been taken down by Bangladesh Black Hat Hackers as a result of DDOS attack. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd known as BSNL is India’s largest  Telephone Services provider company. In last 4 days BBHH and Bangladesh Cyber army hacked and took down more then 20,000 Indian websites. At the time this […]