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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 official Election Campaign website of American Presidential candidate Donald Trump was taken offline by hackers who earlier claimed to conduct a cyber attack on BBC websites. The group goes with the handle of New World Hacktivists (NWH) and associated with the hacker collective Anonymous but conduct its operation as an independent entity who conducted […]
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 / […]
The FBI chief James Comey is worried about possible cyber attacks by the ISIS group on critical infrastructure in the United States — Comey believes “it’s coming.” While addressing the Cybersecurity Law Institute at Georgetown University, FBI chief James Comey claimed that Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) is arming itself with latest cyber attack tactics and looking into its capability if the group […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]