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Brazil recently awarded a USD 4.5 billion deal for new fighter jets to a Swedish company on Wednesday. The deal, which was negotiated over three presidencies, was awarded to Saab, a Sweden-based organization offering products and services ranging from military defense to civil security. There were three contenders to the deal—Chicago-based Boeing and French Dassault […]
SAO PAULO — Brazilian hackers are threatening to disrupt the World Cup with attacks ranging from jamming websites to data theft, adding cyberwarfare to the list of challenges for a competition already marred by protests, delays and overspending. In a country with rampant online crime, a challenging telecommunications infrastructure and little experience with cyberattacks, authorities […]
According to the officials, the security forces of Brazil are constantly using secret agents and thoroughly supervising the social media in order to make certain that the aggressive protesters against government do not wreck the world cup of soccer this year. Though the demonstration in the current months is way smaller than the previous year […]
NSA‘s whistleblower Edward Snowden will not be expelled from Russia when his year-long asylum ends in August this year, said a Russian Lawmaker. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos about the future of US power, Alexey Pushkov, the Head of Foreign Affairs Committee, said that Snowden, “will not be […]
Brazil: An online advert on South America’s largest online shopping website (MercadoLivre.com) has put humanity to shame offering “blacks for sale for one Brazilian real” ($0.42). The ad was featuring a photo image of two black kids, suggesting that sold black children can “serve as carpenters, masons, cooks, security guards, nightclub bouncers, janitors, garbage collectors, […]
Despite Snowden’s voluntarily offer to help Brazil in investigating National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying activities against the country, the land of beauty has no plans to grant him any kind of asylum. Reuters- Brazil carries no plans for giving asylum to Snowden even after this former contractor of NSA has offered them to be part […]
Twelve municipal guards in the city of Araraquara (273 km from Sao Paulo) Brazil have been suspend from their jobs of monitoring surveillance cameras after a complaint that the security camera surveillance service was used for “spying” women in low-cut dresses and dating couples. The complaint was made on Wednesday (11th December) by Councilwoman Gabriela Palombo (PT) […]
The hackers behind NASA hack from BMPoC hacking group have now hacked and defaced total 21 sub-domains of Brazilian Military. The domains are hacked by Baader Meinhof hacker from BMPoC hacking group who left a deface page along with a message on all hacked military domains. The deface message was expressed in following words: The giant awoke […]
The world renowned BMPoC hacker who got fame by defacing 14 official NASA domains against NSA’s spying over Brazil and Syrian war has now defaced another NASA domain. No, the domain was not targeted against NSA’s spying or talking against Syrian war. This time the hacker uploaded a .txt page on NASA’s subdomain with a greeting message to […]
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has decided to cancel her visit to the U.S. scheduled for October 23 against the NSA’s spying over Brazilian government. U.S. President Barack Obama called the Brazilian president yesterday in a failed attempt to avoid the cancellation of the Brazilian state visit next month. The cancellation decision was also finalize on […]
Members of the Rio de Janeiro state voted on Tuesday (September 10th) a bill that prohibits every kind of mask, especially Guy Fawkes Anonymous masks in street protests. Brazilian news site Folha reports that 62 deputies present in Alerj (Legislative Assembly) voted in favor of the text presented on Thursday. Only 12 were against it. […]
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which is now more famous for its poor cyber security rather than any else is again under attack, this time a hacker going with the handle of BMPoC along with his team has defaced 14 official sub-domains of the agency today. Hackers left a deface page along with a message on […]
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 […]
A group of Brazilian hackers from HighTech Brazil HackTeam has hacked and defaced the official website of Americana municipality of São Paulo, Brazil (www.americana.sp.gov.br) along with 10 of its sub-domains against the police brutality on people protesting against increase of bus fares. The sites were hacked yesterday and left with a deface page, a Youtube video along with […]
Unknown hackers have hacked and defaced the website of FIFA World Cup in Brazil (http://copaemcuiaba.com.br) with a Youtube video, urging people not to come to Brazil to watch the world cup and showing police brutality over protesters. The main page of FIFA’s website was defaced and replaced with a YouTube video, showing protesters marching, before riot police release tear […]