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It looks like the racist and neo-nazi website DailyStormer has no place left on the regular Internet. A few days ago the website was banned by GoDaddy and Suspended by Google. Then it turned out that the site has moved to the Russian domain service RU and the Dark Web. Now, it has been reported that […]
On August 14th it was reported that Internet domain registrar and web hosting giant GoDaddy banned the racist and neo-nazi website Daily Stormer from its platform after receiving tons of complaints aimed at the site’s content supporting white supremacist James Alex Fields Jr who killed Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old resident of Charlottesville, Virginia during the Unite the Right rally. The […]
In total, the government of United States is asking for 1.3 million users who visited the website – RIP Privacy! The website www.disruptj20.org turned out to be the ultimate platform for anti-Trump protestors at the time when US president Donald Trump was being inaugurated. Reportedly, around 1.3 million people visited this website to vent out […]
China is well known for its online censorship and surveillance tactics, but earlier today news broke that Apple has removed all virtual private network (VPN) apps from App Store in China. This means Apple users in China can not avail online anonymity anymore and their privacy is at high risk. ExpressVPN, a British Virgin Islands-based VPN provider, […]
Privacy is considered synonymous with trust and security. And it appears more precious and valuable when you do not have it. We know the importance of security and trust when we find ourselves in a precarious situation where we are being threatened and vulnerable to someone’s faulty actions. In return, it makes us cautious and […]
On the 20th of June 2017, the Swiss-based security company, Proton Technologies AG, released its final version of ProtonVPN, open for public use and free to access. Proton Technologies AG has also been the pioneer in developing an encrypted email service called Proton Mail. The development The development of the VPN service took around one […]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is known for its lavish shopping malls, Ferraris, and robots in the police etc. but one thing which outsiders are not familiar with is that the country is also known for its massive online censorship and surveillance capabilities. Keeping that in mind and amid bitter relationships between Qatar the UAE, the […]
The online hacktivist group Anonymous has conducted yet another cyber attack on Thailand‘s government over the recently passed cyber-scrutiny law. This time the group has targeted the Thai government job portal by leaking personal and sensitive details of officials and job seekers. The data which has been leaked on the dark web has been divided […]
Are you sensitive as to internet privacy? If so, then the IP Bill will definitely not be your favorite decision. What is this decision and how will it affect people everywhere in the world? According to the Investigatory Powers Bill, all communications will suffer the lack of privacy online. The Internet Service Providers will need to […]
The online hacktivist group Anonymous was furious over the Thailand government passing the Internet surveillance and scrutiny law and to register their protest the group leaked highly sensitive data from the ministry of foreign affairs and Thai Royal Navy but with the arrest of nine hacktivists and one among them being charged the anger has […]
Last week HackRead reported on the Thailand government passing a cyber-scrutiny law that was being criticized by hacktivists ever since it was being drafted back in 2015. To protest aginst the law Anonymous and its Thai counterparts have been conducting a series of cyber attacks including DDoS attacks and data leaks on prominent government and defense […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous and their Thai counterparts have hacked into the servers of country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Thailand International Cooperation Agency (TICA) and Royal Thai Navy – subsequently publicly leaking a trove of personal and official data. The cyber attack was conducted under the operation “OpSingleGateway” against the recently passed cyber-scrutiny law in the […]
The government of Thailand has been under the hammer of internet activist groups since the parliament approved an amendment to the 2007 Computer Protection Law. There is strong resentment among activists because the Single Internet Gateway project will be implemented by the amended law, which was passed on Friday. The Single Internet Gateway project of […]
As you may know in July KickassTorrents (KAT) websites was shut down by US authorities and its owner Artem Vaulin was arrested in Poland. Since then, several KAT mirrors popped up and then disappeared but there was no sign of the original domain or the team. Now, the good news is that KickassTorrents is back […]
Australian internet providers have been ordered by the Federal Court to block The Pirate Bay and four other websites on grounds of copyright infringement. The ruling was announced in the afternoon today and with this Australia received its first ever, successful site-blocking case. Read: ThePirateBay.se is now ThePirateBay.org Internet companies have received 15 days deadline to completely […]
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture and Information has issued tough warnings to media organizations that relish spreading rumors to get heavy traffic on their websites that follows suite. In fact, the ministry has warned the organizations of tough legal action against those that spread fake news. Also Read: 7 Online Activities That Can Get You Arrested […]
Hollywood is taking strict action against piracy sites — This time it’s the Ukraine-based FS.to to go down. A complaint made by the Motion Picture Association of America led to the arrest of people behind FS.to. The cyber-crime department of Ukraine’s National Police force carried out a series of operations against the website which is used […]
The official website of WikiLeaks suffered a brief outage when it came under DDoS attacks right after posting new DNC e-mails earlier today. WikiLeaks has revealed that their email publication server has been suffering massive DDoS attacks since the platform published a new trove of DNC e-mails dubbed as DNCLeak2). On Twitter, WikiLeaks announced that their website […]
ThePirateBay.org domain has been blocked by some ISPs in India and users are not happy about it. Earlier we reported how India has waged a war on Torrents and file sharing websites. Now according to Hackread’s readers in India, the World’s largest BitTorrent tracker ThePirateBay is being blocked by some Internet service providers (ISPs) throughout the […]
India is waging a war of Torrents and file sharing sites — The government has blocked several torrenting and file sharing sites and Imprisonment has been threatened for anyone viewing or downloading content from such sites It looks like the whole world is going after Torrent websites. Beginning with the shutdown of Kickass Torrents which led to the […]
Details of Over 5,000 Spanish Cops Leaked Online by Anonymous because of Gag law A couple of weeks ago a hacker going with the handle of HackBack hacked into the servers of Sindicat De Mossos d’Esquadra (SME) or the Catalan Police Union and leaked highly confidential details of officials as a protest against police brutality. Now, the […]