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Norway�s financial sector under massive cyber attack, Anonymous claims �responsibility�

Norway�s�top financial institutions came under massive cyber attacks on Tuesday.Anonymous Norway appears to be behind this attack. The attack�on Norway�s�top financial institutions/banks, such as�Danske Bank,�Norges Bank,�Sparebank and renowned insurance agencies�Gjensidige and�Storebrand had their services disrupted. Other than banks, a telecom company and three national airlines also�came under attack. In an interview with Dagens N�ringsliv business […]

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#OpJustina: Anonymous allegedly Targets Boston Children’s Hospital against Justina Pelletier custody.

The online collective Anonymous has attacked the Boston Children’s Hospital over the recent Justina Pelletier child-custody case, said a recent report by The Boston Globe. The medical center has been experiencing cyber assaults since last few weeks. Although there are no direct indications that the attack could be from the Anonymous group, cybersecurity experts did not rule out their […]

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Powerful DDoS attack by Ukrainian hackers takes down NATO and its Cyber Defence Centre Server

A group of Ukrainian hackers going with the handle of CyberBerkut has taken down the official website of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) along with its Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Screenshot of NATO website, showing error message Hackers launched a DDoS-attack on NATO main web server (www.nato.int), NATO Parliamentary Assembly (www.nato-pa.int) and NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of […]

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The 400Gbps largest DDoS attack has hit Europe using NTP Amplification

For temporary abandoning the services of the host that is connected to some internet, the most widely used and favorite method that is employed by hackers is the “Distributed Denial of Services DDoS”. Almost all the big websites till date have fall victim to this attack at different times. For the purpose of boosting these […]

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Vulnerability that lets hackers hack Snapchat and disable your iPhone

Snapchat app vulnerability is highlighted again, and this time the hackers can temporarily freeze your iPhone and force restart, according to media reports. A Spanish researcher, Jaime Sanchez, along with another researcher have discovered a flaw in the Snapchat’s code that makes it possible for the hackers to launch denial-of-service attack. Sending thousands of messages […]

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Scared of Anonymous? British Spies DDOS-ed Anonymous Websites: Snowden

The latest in the series of Snowden revelations include attacks of British spies on hacktivists of Anonymous and LulzSec. According to NBC news, who obtained the leaked classified documents from Snowden, the spy unit used questionable practices not just against the hackers but also against web communications of political dissidents. A division (Joint Threat Research […]

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11 Israeli Bank Websites Taken Down by Anonymous Tunisia and AnonGhost

Hacktivists going with the handles of Anonymous Tunisia and AnonGhost have taken down websites of 11 private Israeli banks in a DDoS attack. Anonymous Tunisia left a list of websites belonging to 11 different Israeli banks which were taken down few hours ago in support of Palestine. In a Tweet by Anonymous Tunisia, it was claimed that: This […]

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What happened to Google? Gmail and Chrome Went Down

Just few hours ago, several Google products including Gmail faced an outage and went offline in several countries of the world. While some users have been found complaining about similar problem going on with Chrome.  While opening www.gmail.com and other sites related to Google products, following image with a message was displaying on the main page: While ABC […]

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US Navy Facing 110,000 Cyber Attacks Every Hour

The internal IT & server system of US Navy is facing 110,000 cyber attacks every hour, 1,833 attacks a minute. According to a report published by HP during an event in Frankfurt, the software and IT security providing company confirms that US Navy is under constant cyber attacks by the hackers from different countries. The official blog post from the US Navy Seals […]

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